''FourFourTwo'' is an
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
magazine published by British company
Future
The future is the time after the past and present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently ex ...
. Issued monthly, it published its 300th edition in May 2019. It takes its name from the football
formation of the same name,
4–4–2. Future acquired the magazine from
Haymarket Media Group
Haymarket Media Group is a private media company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It has publications in the consumer, business and customer sectors, both print and online. It operates exhibitions allied to its own publications, and p ...
in 2018. Haymarket previously acquired Future's earlier football magazine ''Total Football'' in 2001 in exchange of subscriber list and the rights to the masthead of its defunct internet magazine ''The Net'', Haymarket later absorbed ''Total Football'' into ''FourFourTwo''.
In 2008 ''FourFourTwo'' entered into a three-year shirt sponsorship deal with
Swindon Town
Swindon Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The team, known as the "Robins", currently compete in , the fourth level of the English football league system.
Founded as Swindon A ...
.
Rankings and awards
''FourFourTwo'' has a number of annual rankings and awards. In 2007, the magazine put together its first ''FFT100'', their list of the 100 best footballers in the world.
At the end of the
2012–13 Premier League
The 2012–13 Premier League (known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the 21st season of the Premier League, the English professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992, and the 114 ...
season, FourFourTwo announced its first Stats Zone Awards.
In May 2015, the inaugural list of the 50 best Asian players in world football was announced. They have also produced a top 50 of players from the
Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional association football, football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in Association football around the world, the w ...
.
Other rankings
In April 2022, ''FourFourTwo'' ranked the best footballers of the 21st century.
Lionel Messi
Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi (; born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional Association football, footballer who plays as a forward (association football), forward for and Captain (association football), captains both Major League Soccer ...
was ranked as number 1. In September 2023, the magazine also ranked the 100 best football players of all time, with Messi once again ranking first.
Other editions
* Dutch edition – first published in November 2018 by F&L Media
Wereldberoemd Voetbalmagazine FourFourTwo Komt Naar Nederland
fnl.nl, 9 October 2018
See also
* '' World Soccer''
* ''The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...
''
*''Onze Mondial
''Onze Mondial'' is a French language quarterly football magazine published in Paris, France.
History and profile
The magazine was established with name ''Onze'' in 1976. In 1989 the magazine merged with another sports magazine, ''Mondial'', an ...
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* European Sports Magazines
References
External links
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