Football is an increasingly popular sport among girls and women in the Nordic countries, and in recent years an increasing number of migrant players have joined women's football clubs in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The project aims to develop knowledge about the ways in which sports labour migration creates new challenges and opportunities for a so-called Nordic civil society model of sport. A model, according to which sports is organised in local sports clubs, driven by volunteers, and built on ideals such as establishing a strong social cohesion in society. First of all, we will look historically at the ways in which immigration into women's football in Denmark, Norway and Sweden has developed in connection with emerging globalization, professionalization and commercialization processes. Secondly, a management study will inquire into specific women's football clubs' ways of re-organising themselves in the transition between the local and global, voluntarism and professionalism, idealism and commercialism. Thirdly, an anthropological field study will relate the clubs' perceptions of social integration to those of the migrant players. The project aims to identify and discuss possible new hybrid models for organizing sports and alternative club strategies for integrating different types of members, which may prove useful for the future development of Nordic sports clubs not only in relation to sports labour migration, but also health and ethnic minority issues. The project is based on a grant of 600,000 Euro from the NOS-HS Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and is designated a NORDCORP project (NORDic Collaborative Research Project). With the grant from NOS-HS and co-financing from Malmö University, Sweden and University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 3 PhD-scholars have been employed. The project is headed by Sine Agergaard, associate professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen, while the project group includes researchers from all Nordic countries. In addition a grant from the Velux Foundation has made it possible to affiliate the leading international expert in research on sport and globalization, as well as sports labour migration, Joseph Maguire from Loughborough University as a visiting professor. The project period is from 1st September 2011 to 30th August 2015.