| Africa, football and FIFA: Politics, colonialism and resistance P Darby Routledge, 2013 | 396 | 2013 |
| Football academies and the migration of African football labor to Europe P Darby, G Akindes, M Kirwin Journal of sport and social issues 31 (2), 143-161, 2007 | 354 | 2007 |
| The new scramble for Africa: African football labour migration to Europe P Darby Europe, Sport, World, 217-244, 2013 | 170 | 2013 |
| Out of Africa: The exodus of elite African football talent to Europe P Darby WorkingUSA 10 (4), 443-456, 2007 | 162 | 2007 |
| African football labour migration to Portugal: Colonial and neo-colonial resource P Darby Globalised Football, 56-70, 2013 | 143 | 2013 |
| Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the policy coherence? I Lindsey, P Darby International review for the sociology of sport 54 (7), 793-812, 2019 | 142 | 2019 |
| Differing trajectories: football development and patterns of player migration in South Africa and Ghana P Darby, E Solberg South Africa and the Global Game, 118-130, 2013 | 96 | 2013 |
| Africa and the ‘World’Cup: FIFA politics, eurocentrism and resistance P Darby The International journal of the History of Sport 22 (5), 883-905, 2005 | 89 | 2005 |
| Moving players, traversing perspectives: Global value chains, production networks and Ghanaian football labour migration P Darby Geoforum 50, 43-53, 2013 | 86 | 2013 |
| Football, colonial doctrine and indigenous resistance: mapping the political persona of FIFA's African constituency P Darby Culture, Sport Society 3 (1), 61-87, 2000 | 79 | 2000 |
| Africa, the FIFA Presidency, and the Governance of World Football: 1974, 1998, and 2002 P Darby Africa Today, 3-24, 2003 | 67 | 2003 |
| ‘Go Outside’: The history, economics and geography of ghanaian football labour migration P Darby African historical review 42 (1), 19-41, 2010 | 66 | 2010 |
| Soccer and disaster: International perspectives P Darby, M Johnes, G Mellor Routledge, 2004 | 59 | 2004 |
| Africa's place in FIFA's global order: A theoretical frame P Darby Soccer & Society 1 (2), 36-61, 2000 | 58 | 2000 |
| ‘Let us rally around the flag’: Football, nation-building, and pan-Africanism in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana P Darby The Journal of African History 54 (2), 221-246, 2013 | 57 | 2013 |
| Stanley Rous's ‘Own Goal': Football Politics, South Africa and the Contest for the FIFA Presidency in 1974 P Darby Football: From England to the World, 93-106, 2013 | 50* | 2013 |
| Migração para Portugal de jogadores de futebol africanos: recurso colonial e neocolonial P Darby, R Cabral Análise social, 417-433, 2006 | 49 | 2006 |
| Divided sport in a divided society: Northern Ireland A Bairner, P Darby Sport in divided societies, 51-72, 1999 | 40 | 1999 |
| Gains versus drains: Football academies and the export of highly skilled football labor P Darby The Brown Journal of World Affairs 18 (2), 265-277, 2012 | 38 | 2012 |
| Gaelic games, nationalism and the Irish diaspora in the United States P Darby University College Dublin, 2009 | 38 | 2009 |
