This special issue addresses the complex reality of community football organisations based within England, who are tackling major social issues, like social inclusion and health promotion. It outlines key recommendations and considerations for both researchers and practitioners attending to these issues through the vehicle of football. This book was originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.

1. Introduction 2. Corporate social responsibility and social partnerships in professional football 3. Little United and the big society: negotiating the gaps between football, community and the politics of inclusion 4. Growing the football game: The Increasing Economic and Social Relevance of Older Fans and Those with Disabilities in the European Football Industry 5. Fit Fans: perspectives of a practitioner and understanding participant health needs within a health promotion programme for older men delivered within an English Premier League Football Club 6. Effect of a health improvement programme for older adults delivered by a professional football club: The Burton Albion case study 7. 'I just want to watch the match' - a practitioner's reflective account of men's health themed match day events at an English Premier League Football Club 8. Ethnographic engagement inside a Football in the Community programme at an English Premier League football club. 9. 'Motivate': the effect of a football in the community delivered weight loss programme on over 35 year old men and women's cardiovascular risk factors 10. Assessing the impact of football-based health improvement programmes: Stay onside, avoid own goals and score with the evaluation!