| Rugby’s Great Split: Class T Collins Culture and the Origins of Rugby League, London: Cass, 1998 | 350* | 1998 |
| Sport in a Capitalist Society: A Short History T Collins Routledge, 2013 | 277 | 2013 |
| Mud, sweat and beers: A cultural history of sport and alcohol T Collins, W Vamplew Berg, 2002 | 256 | 2002 |
| A social history of English Rugby Union T Collins Routledge, 2009 | 251 | 2009 |
| Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain: a social and cultural history T Collins Routledge, 2006 | 111 | 2006 |
| The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby T Collins Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015 | 102 | 2015 |
| How Football Began: A Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born T Collins Routledge, 2018 | 70 | 2018 |
| Encyclopedia of traditional British rural sports T Collins, J Martin, W Vamplew Routledge, 2005 | 59 | 2005 |
| History, theory and the ‘civilizing process’ T Collins Sport in History 25 (2), 289-306, 2005 | 56 | 2005 |
| English rugby union and the First World War T Collins The Historical Journal 45 (4), 797-817, 2002 | 54 | 2002 |
| Early Football and the Emergence of Modern Soccer, c. 1840–1880 T Collins The International Journal of the History of Sport 32 (9), 1127-1142, 2015 | 37 | 2015 |
| The Invention of Sporting Tradition: National Myths, Imperial Pasts and the Origins of Australian Rules Football T Collins Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport, 8-31, 2011 | 36 | 2011 |
| Return to manhood: the cult of masculinity and the British Union of Fascists T Collins The International journal of the history of sport 16 (4), 145-162, 1999 | 36 | 1999 |
| The pub, the drinks trade and the early years of modern football T Collins, W Vamplew Sports Historian 20 (1), 1-17, 2000 | 32 | 2000 |
| Work, rest and play: Recent trends in the history of sport and leisure T Collins Journal of Contemporary History 42 (2), 397-410, 2007 | 28 | 2007 |
| Myth and reality in the 1895 rugby split T Collins The Sports Historian 16 (1), 19-27, 1996 | 27 | 1996 |
| The Tyranny of Deference: Anglo-Australian Relations and Rugby Union before World War II T Collins Sport as History, 107-126, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| Unexceptional exceptionalism: the origins of American football in a transnational context T Collins Journal of Global History 8 (2), 209-230, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| Racial minorities in a marginalized sport: race, discrimination and integration in British rugby league football T Collins Immigrants & Minorities 17 (1), 151-169, 1998 | 20 | 1998 |
| Amateurism and the rise of managerialism: The case of rugby union, 1871–1995 T Collins Coaching Cultures, 104-120, 2014 | 17 | 2014 |
