IFI’s achievements to date include:

Research

Achievements include:

• Successfully  supervising 35 PhDs on aspects of football history and culture.
• Raising funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and other sources for 20 fully-funded PhDs

Publications

There have been over 200 IFI publications to date.

Media

The IFI team, as leading experts in many fields, have made innumerable contributions in the international media.  They have worked as historical consultants for a significant number of football-related documentaries, including:

A Century of Rugby League (Channel 9 TV Australia, 2008)

Sport and the British (BBC Radio 4, 30-part series, 2012)

Alfie Allen’s History of Football (History Channel, 2017)

The Rugby Codebreakers (BBC Wales, 2019)

Rugby: The Cost of Concussion (BBC Wales, 2021)

This Union: Being Welsh (BBC Radio 4, 2022)

Conferences

The IFI team have been invites to be keynote speakers at many internationalconferences around the world. They have also organised a number of major conferences, including:

• The world’s first conference on women’s football in 2005, supported by UEFA. This was held to coincide with the 2005 UEFA Women’s Championship.    
• In 2013 IFI organised a highly successful international conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the Football Association, which attracted over one hundred scholars from around the world. Papers from the conference were published in a special double issue of the journal Soccer and Society.
• The First World Football Culture Summit, in partnership with the Chinese Football Museum, Zibo, China.

Impact

IFI has made a number of major contributions to successful Impact case studies. IFI has also advised and worked directly on the development of a major new football and sports museums around the world.