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The subject of this article is the theoretical and methodological framework of researching the fans’ perception of football rivalries. We attempt to elaborate the optimum and reliable method of investigating football fans in a wide scope and from an international comparative perspective. Despite numerous examples of both qualitative and quantitative research on football fans all around the world, no comprehensive methodology binding those approaches has been offered so far. In our paper we present the triangulation of selected qualitative and quantitative (CAWI) research methods and techniques drafted for researching the fans’ perception of football rivalries in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. The article presents the results of the qualitative component of our research (50 in-depth interviews with fans of Legia Warszawa, Slavia Praha, Slovan Bratislava and Ferencvaros) and its impact on the subsequent quantitative component (planned CAWI survey open to all football fans in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary). The offered analytical framework in an original and innovative approach in analysing rivalry-related aspects of football fandom and has never been used for that purpose before.
