Lago Peñas, IgnacioLago Peñas, Carlos2021-07-092021-07-092021Lago I, Lago-Peñas C. The Glories of immigration: how soccer wins shape opinion on immigration. Migr Stud. 2021 Sep;9(3):466-89. DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnaa0182049-5838http://hdl.handle.net/10230/48131While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence on the impact of soccer wins on attitudes toward immigrants and immigration, there is relatively little hard empirical evidence. It is expected that soccer stimulates more positive attitudes towards immigrants when it highlights immigration benefits rather than costs and increases exposure to famous members of an out-group. Individual-level data from the eight rounds of the European Social Survey (2002–16) in Spain and aggregate data from the Spanish professional soccer league, La Liga, were used to test the hypothesis that the more foreign players in the team of the club winning the corresponding season of Spain’s La Liga, the more favourable the views of immigrants in the club’s region in that year. The empirical evidence from linear and ordinal regression using different measures of opinions on immigration shows that soccer can affect attitudes toward immigrants and immigration.application/pdfeng© Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Migr Stud following peer review. The version of record Lago I, Lago-Peñas C. The Glories of immigration: how soccer wins shape opinion on immigration. Migr Stud. 2021 Sep;9(3):466-89 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaa018info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaa018AttitudesEuropean social surveyFootballImmigrationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess