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International football is usually presented from the angle of ninety-minute clashes between nations that are unitary and united. However, based on an online survey of a thousand followers of this sport, this article shows that following football reflects territorial identifications, which vary considerably and are thus a significant source for understanding the complexity of contemporary feelings of belonging. So long as quantitative analysis is used judiciously, research is able to grasp key representations of space and time, as well as of the foreign and the other. Having analyzed these perceptions, the article closes with propositions for conceptualizing the construction of territories as being produced essentially by socio-political elites, but not being controlled by them.