Einleitung

Despite the boom of memorial culture as a theme in the social sciences and cultural history, so far there has been hardly any scholarly publication debating the relationship between football and death. Until the end of the twentieth century, German sports history and scholarly exploration of the collective memory of sport either remained firmly in the context of the formulation of political injustice under the two German dictatorships or focused on the history of racism as well as on that of social exclusion and discrimination. The broad and rather diversive range of collective memory of sport was left out. In the chapter some special fields regarding the memorial and sepulchral culture of football will be presented in the form of a survey as well as being discussed as far as their importance for the future of the memorial culture of football is concerned.