Abstract
Clubs have become the basic unit of British grass-roots sport but have not been studied historically as a collective entity. This article offers a way forward by developing a working definition of a sports club using an ideal-type model, by outlining relevant theories that might be applied in a study of such clubs and by proposing typologies for the classification of sports clubs based on their non-sport level of associativity, ownership and facility provision. Brief discussions are made of four types of club: those that were workplace-based, those associated with a religion, those connected to political organisations and those developed by the alcohol trade.
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