Lee Ludvigsen, J. A., Tsoukala, A., Byrne, S., Rookwood, J. & Ross, W. J. (2024). A roundtable discussion on the politics of EURO 2024: a collective commentary. Soccer & Society, 26 (1), 179–188.

Rookwood, J. (2024). Diversifying the fan experience and securitising crowd management: A longitudinal analysis of fan park facilities at 15 football mega events between 2002 and 2019. Managing Sport and Leisure, 29 (1), 37-55.

Rookwood, J. & Hoey, P. (2024). From the Anfield Wrap to Boss Night and the Paris protests: Football, politics, identity and the cultural evolution of fan media and supporter activism in Liverpool. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 7, 83-107.

Rookwood, J. & Adeosun, K. (2023). Nation branding and public diplomacy: Japan’s 2019 Rugby World Cup and 20(21) Olympics, a global economic downturn and the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Global Sport Management, 8 (3), 573-593.

Owonikoko, S. M. & Rookwood, J. (2022). The modes of consumption and relational dynamics of English Premier League supporters in Nigeria. Soccer & Society, 23 (4-5), 367-385.

Ludvigsen, J., Rookwood, J. & Parnell, D. (2022). The sports mega-events of the 2020s: Governance, impact, controversies. Sport in Society, 25 (4), 705-711.

Parnell, D., Rookwood, J., Bond, A. J., Widdop, P. & Ludvigsen, J. (2022). ‘It’s a whole new ball game’: Thirty Years of the English Premier League. Soccer & Society, 23 (4-5), 329-333.

Rookwood, J. (2022). From sport-for-development to sports mega-events: Conflict, authoritarian modernisation and statecraft in Azerbaijan. Sport in Society, 25 (4), 847-866.

Lawlor, C., Rookwood, J. & Wright, C. (2021). Player scouting and talent recruitment in English Men’s professional football: Opportunities for research. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sport Studies, 15 (1), 57-76.

Rookwood, J. (2020). The politics of CONIFA: Organising and managing international football events for unrecognised countries. Managing Sport and Leisure, 25 (1-2), 6-20.

Rookwood, J. (2019). Access, security and diplomacy: Perceptions of soft power, nation branding and the organisational challenges facing Qatar's 2022 FIFA World Cup. Sport, Business and Management, 9 (1), 26-44.

Rookwood, J. (2019). Collective action and football fandom. Soccer & Society, 20 (3), 560-567.

Kenyon, J., Mason, C. & Rookwood, J. (2018). Emerging third-sector sports organisations and navigating uncertainty in an ‘era of austerity’: a single ethnographic case study from Liverpool. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 10 (1), 25-42.

Brannagan, P. M. & Rookwood, J. (2016). Sports mega-events, soft power and soft disempowerment: Qatar’s acquisition of the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 8 (2), 173-188.

Rookwood, J. (2015). Consuming football in late modern life. Sport in Society, 18 (3), 398-401. 

Sutton, N. & Rookwood, J. (2015). From Rotterdam to Rio: Investigating perceptions of sporting, socio-political and cultural developments in Germany between 2000 and 2014. International Journal of Social Science Studies, 3 (4), 121-132.

Rookwood, J. (2013). Building from Beslan: Examining an NGO community sport initiative in Russia and its capacity to promote peace for victims of terrorism. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 5 (4), 230-242.

Rookwood, J. & Pearson, G. (2012). The football hoolifan: positive fan attitudes to ‘hooliganism.’ International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 47 (2), 147-162.

Rookwood, J. & Chan, N. (2011). The 39th Game: Fan responses to the Premier League’s proposal to globalise English football. Soccer & Society, 12 (6), 897-913.

Rookwood, J. & Millward, P. (2011). ‘We all dream of a team of Carraghers’: Comparing ‘local’ and Texan Liverpool fans’ talk. Sport in Society, 14 (1), 37-52.

Rookwood, J. & Palmer, C. (2011). Invasion games in war-torn nations: Can football help to build peace? Soccer & Society, 12 (2), 184-200.

Rookwood, J. (2009). Promoting, building and sustaining peace through sporting interaction In Israel. Peace Forum, 24 (34), 29-44.

Rookwood, J. (2009). Applying Olympic values – peace promotion through sport in Russia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Journal of Olympic History, 17 (2), 22-33.

Rookwood, J. (2008). Soccer for peace and social development. Peace Review, 20 (4), 471-479.

Rookwood, J. & Buckley, C. (2007). The Olympic soccer tournament. Journal of Olympic History, 15 (3), 6-15.