By the beginning of World War II on the 1st of September 1939, the conditions also changed for sport, some of them dramatically. The official propaganda understood football no longer as a purpose-free game, but as an instrument of political and military intentions. Because of the unpredictability of the course of a game, football was suitable only conditionally. At the same time, this sport has created politically neutral space for exciting entertainment and escapist distraction. Focus areas of the book are the situation in the European territories occupied by German troops, in the Greater German "Reich", in the allied and neutral countries and in the British sphere of influence, as well as the reception of the theme in arts