Football Edits

Related terms:	Vid, Edit (video genre)
See also:	Football (Soccer) RPF
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Football edits generally refers to a type of short vid that is popular on TikTok and created using tools like CapCut. The edits might focus on a specific player, a team, a match or event, or on football generally. The clips are typically put to music and the lyrics of the song are often stylised over the clips.

Edits focused on women's football are often referred to or tagged as WoSo edits while the general term football edits, or less commonly soccer edits, seems to be used for edits for the men's game. Player names are also often used in tags. Football edits can arise from more general trends going around TikTik, and there are also some trends which seem specific to the football fandom. While many of the edits originate on TikTik, they do appear on other platforms. For example, in September 2024, there was a relatively short but popular trend of vids being posted to Twitter focused on players consider 'Barclaysmen'.

Examples of Edits

Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples.

Rain

Set to the song Rain by Aitch x AJ Tracey, these edits generally involved clips of the song from the first 45 seconds of the song and tended to be focused on a single footballer, clipping together goals, assists, tackles or other on-field actions into a compilation of what the creator considered to be particularly talented plays the were representative of the player.

Examples:

• Rain, Lauren James by swewnt_08
• Rain ft. Georgia Stanway by g8stanway
• Rain, Lucy Bronze by womenssportsreporter
• rain x salma paralluelo by aitanasversion
• Katoto vs Columbia by 05h500

Barclaysmen

This was a trend in September 2024 focused on men's football in England during the Barclays sponsorship era of 2001 to 2016 in the Premier League where clips of players scoring goals were set to music from indie bands. However, there was debate over who was and wasn't a Barclaysman, because the general consensus was it wasn't just any footballer who played in the Premier League during that time, but a certain type of player who was considered to encapsulate the era and the fan culture of the time. The trend became so popular, the official social media accounts for different teams joined in with the trend.

Examples:

• John Carew x A-ha
• Kevin Mirallas x Hit it
• The Ultimate Barclays Player: Morten Gamst Pedersen

The City's Yours

These edits use the song The City's Yours by Jamie Foxx and often are used for edits about a player or team achieving success after a long period of working hard or experiencing set backs and hardship.

Examples:

• Just one from the drafts today by megsfcedits - An edit for England Women's National team winning the 2022 Euros, with images of the players when they were young intercut with clips from them playing and winning the Euros.
• USWNT passing the torch by aitana.goatmati - An edit based on the premise of the USWNT players who were instrumental in the growth of the game retiring and handing over the future to the upcoming players.

Alibi

Set to a section of Alibi by Pabllo Vittar, Sevdaliza, and Yseult, these edits tends to be primarily used for women's football players and are often more of an admiration edit or 'thirst' edit for a specific player.

Example:

• Lena Oberdorf by woso.edits.de
• Leah Williamson by stanwayswifey
• Ona Batlle by ona.batlle22

Oh yes, they both reached for the gun

To the song, 'We Both Reached for the Gun' from Chicago, these edits tend to focus on players or teams both competing for the same goal - whether that's winning an award, a match, or progression in a tournament. More about this editing trend generally is at Oh yes, they both reached for the gun.

Event Edits

Other videos are not focused on a trending sound, but are instead edits created for particular events in the sport, such as the start of a new season, a domestic competition, or an international competition.

Examples:

• Welcome Back WSL by ohskipmyskip - An edit to Chiquitita by ABBA for the 2024/25 Barclays Women's Super League season.
• WSL 24/25 by ytg1440 - An edit to In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins for the 2024/24 Barclays WSL season.

Player Edits

Like the event edits, there are also often player edits which do not follow a trending sound and instead use a song that the creator either just likes or feels matches the player in some way. Events can often lead to an uptick in player edits; for example, goalkeepers Ann-Katrin Berger, Mary Earps, and Zećira Mušović all had an increases in edits made of them after performances in the Olympics, Euros, or World Cups. More often than other edits, player-focused edits without a specific music trend might include clips from interviews or the player being spoken about preceding the music and clips.

Examples:

• A Zećira Mušović edit by zessemusovic playing for Sweden.
• A Virgil Van Dijk edit by v1zzy_visualz.
• Ann Katrin Berger - Aura Definition by xxxfootballeditsxxx

Departure and Retirement Edits

Players leaving football clubs or retiring from either international or all football often prompts a number of edits set to songs. Some songs are more commonly used than others, though there isn't one stand-out song used. For example, 'You're Gonna Go Far' by Noah Kahan or 'Bigger Than The Whole Sky' by Taylor Swift are popular for departure edits, 'Hall of Fame' by will.i.am and 'The End is Near' by Pheobe Bridgers are popular for retirement edits, and 'Forever Young' by Alphaville and 'Pink Skies' by Zach Bryan are frequently used for both.

Examples:

• Hall of Fame, Alex Morgan by uswntfeen following Alex Morgan's retirement announcement.
• The End is Near, US Women's National Team by sonnett.ohara, following the retirement of a notable number of the 2019 US WNT throughout 2023 and 2024.
• Marta, Forever Young by thayzpx_, following Marta's retirement from international football.
• You'll Go Far, Mary Earps by user1072062, following Earps' departure from Manchester United