Visual Analysis of Domestic Football Research

The bibliometrics software CitespaceⅢ was adopted to conduct a visual analysis of the 2356 articles collected in Hownet database.It finds out the leading authors and core institutions that get involved in domestic football sport and the research hot spots are chiefly centered on the football sport, football teaching, campus football;In general, the development of research hot-spots has undergone a process from macro to micro to concrete practice.And the research methods has been evolving from case analysis and qualitative analysis to practice and qualitative research, and in response to the problems found in the research analysis, relevant suggestions are put forth.