Introduction: soccer, women, fandom and digitality 1. ‘No Scotland, no party!’: diversity, identity and fandom in Scottish women’s football 2. Negotiating gender in antifascist football fan communities in Greece 3. Toward contesting the ‘male preserve’? A study of women as spectators of men’s football in West Bengal, India 4. Determinants of stadium attendance in the WE League, Japan: a comparative analysis of the pre- and post-2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup seasons 5. FIFA Men’s World Cup as a liminal space: women’s football fandom and gender dynamics in Kerala, India 6. Platformization, cultural practices, and patterns of (dis)continuity: the case of the Women’s World Cup 7. Exploring online sexism and misogyny in women’s professional English football 8. Female fandom, social media, and men’s football in 21st century Kolkata: an empirical and engagement-based analysis 9. Digitalisation of the playing field: a conceptual study of Chinese women’s soccer players’ live streaming e-commerce (daihuo) on social media 10. Contesting gender norms in women’s soccer: digital engagement with an activist message 11. ‘Girls show boys the way’: insights into the growth of women’s game