The Initial Research On Football Fan Culture Of CSL

With respect to the case study on fans of Beijing Guoan F.C.and Shanghai Shenhua F.C.,this present research tries to understand the fan culture of clubs in Chinese Super League,so that the nature of football fan culture could be approached.Moreover,the fan culture may be the guarantee to help Chinese professional football clubs to sustain the number of fans,the financial support,and the social influence.Also,it will help the social leading institution to maintain social order and cities development.From this perspectives,the project applied the research methods such as questionnaire,second data review,participate observation,interview,comparative research and case study to investigate and analyses the status,regional culture,radical behaviours and external environment around fans of Beijing Guoan F.C.and Shanghai Shenhua F.C..The contents of this research can be summarized as follows:Generally,the fan culture should be the common view of fandom group members.It examines the mode of fans' thinking,performance and self-awareness.Also the characteristics of football fan culture are impacted by the features of social mainstream culture and main members of fans sub-cultural circle.Therefore,fan cultures in various football clubs are different.Regional culture,as one part of social mainstream culture,guides people with same regional identities to think and behave in same ways.As the geographic conditions and historical progresses among regions in China are various,the particular regional culture is unique and given.In Beijing,Hutong culture may help fans to increase their regional identity on local football clubs,so that it could help set up fans' sense of belonging on clubs.However,in Shanghai,the regional culture,Haipai culture,may become the obstacle to the fans' sense of belonging establishment.Thus,regional culture is an uncertain factor for fans to set up sense of belonging on their clubs.People's commercial and life style would be impacted by the changing external environment,such as the infrastructure of cities.For Beijing and Shanghai fans,they may reduce their passion on football clubs they support to satisfy their basic life needs.In this case,the fans would gradually become the marginal members of fans sub-cultural circle.From this aspect,the structure of fans sub-cultural circle is continually changing,which inherently affects club fan culture.Fans radical behaviours are related to their emotional catharsis,even some parts of their irrational manners are the elements of civic culture,such as Hutong culture,which all should be passive,and the reaction of emotional pain.As one method of emotional catharsis,it is hard to remove or eliminate radical behaviors.So,it could be better to use another method of emotional catharsis to replace it.Based on these research consequences,this thesis gives suggestion,such as,the government should improve the cooperation with fan groups;the football clubs should increase its competitive capability to maintain their fans;the clubs also need to satisfy the needs of fans by understanding fan culture;the safety and regulation in game courts should be ensured;football players should play games with justice and hornour,but not perform radically;the referees should improve their ability to sustain the order and justice of football courts;and,finally,the media corporations should take responsibility to guide fans' mind healthy.