Recommended Children’s Books About Football
Football books are hugely popular with young readers from the earliest years all through primary school. From soccer superstars to famous fouls, there’s no end of football facts and figures to absorb in our collection of non-fiction and fiction books about the beautiful game.
This list features characters of different shapes and sizes, genders and nationalities enjoying football. If you are looking specifically for girls’ and women’s football, we also have a girls’ football booklist.
Two very recommendable series about football players for KS2 are the Football Superstars series, which are simple and easy-to-read chapter books about individual players and great for younger or less confident readers of chapter books, and the Ultimate Football Heroes series, which are information-packed chapter book biographies of key players, best suited to children aged 9-11.
We’ve put together a list of the best children’s books about football that are bound to kick-start your book collection and score big with young football fans.