Have a bit of a Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce obsession going on? It’s okay, we’ve all been there. We’ve got you covered if you’re looking for football romance books to fuel your obsession.
Picture star athletes falling for their biggest fans, coaches finding unexpected love in the stands, and rival players discovering that their fiercest competition is also their greatest passion.
Football romance books offer a perfect blend of excitement and emotion, ensuring that every page turn brings a new adventure in both the game and the heart. Whether you’re a sports enthusiast or a romance lover, these tales will score a touchdown in your reading list.
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These Football Romance Books Are Perfect If You Love A Tight End
1. The Perfect Play by Jaci Burton
The last thing event planner Tara Lincoln needs is the jet-set lifestyle of professional athletes like Mick Riley.
Even considering their passionate one-night stand, Tara has no intentions of putting herself out there with the heartbreaker, but Mick has his mind set on winning her over.
2. The Friend Zone (End of the Line Book 1) by Sariah Wilson
Disgraced college quarterback Logan Hunt was on his way to NFL stardom when he messed up big-time. Now the Texas star football player with a bad temper has a new option: Seattle’s EOL College―as in End of the Line, to his fellow misfit recruits. It’s Logan’s last chance. If he can follow the rules. No parties, fighting, swearing, or dating the coach’s daughter, Jess. Simple. Yeah, right. For Logan, there has never been a rule he’s more tempted to break.
The deal is “just friends.” The pretty, confident, and fiercely smart math whiz is fine with pizza, tutoring, and keeping Logan in line. But the closer Jess gets, the more receptive she is to his warm heart and spirit―not to mention his irresistible off-field passes. With defenses down, they’re both heading into the danger zone.
Tropes: Coach’s daughter
3. First Down (Beyond the Play Book 1) by Grace Reilly
Main characters James and Bex find themselves in a fake relationship when James needs a tutor and Bex needs to get her cheating ex to leave her alone. It’s not long before they find themselves going from fake to the real deal.
Tropes: Fake dating
4. The Cheat Sheet: A Novel by Sarah Adams
Bree Camden is hopelessly in love with her longtime best friend and hot NFL legend Nathan Donelson. When a car crash ends her chance at becoming a professional ballerina, Bree now owns he rown dance studio, but is struggling.
After Nathan comes to the rescue, Bree stubbornly takes a few too many tequila shots and spills her deepest, darkest secret to TMZ. Now the world thinks they’re the cutest couple and Nathan’s publicist proposes opportunity.
Tropes: Friends to lovers, fake dating
5. Overtime (Seattle Phantom Football Book 2) by Maggie Rawdon
The second book in this series also happens to be a second chance romance. The FMC needs the star quarterback in front of her camera for charity. The problem is she already had his heart and shattered it.
He agrees, but with his own stipulations and she’s about to find out he’s more of a bad boy than his nice guy public persona.
Tropes: Second chance
6. Make The Play by Jamie Wesley
Carter Jones is a beloved rising star who just signed as the highest paid starting wide receiver, but he’s not playing up to par and his brother and roommate keeps butting into his business. When Carter decides he needs a new place, he meets real estate agent Gabby Stephens who has no time for playboys.
But she desperately needs to make this sell and it becomes increasingly difficult to ignore her attraction.
7. Against the Clock by Brittany Kelley
Love a good age gap sports romance novel? The first book in the Wilmington Football series is for you. When the veteran player of the professional football team Daniel Harrison meets reporter Kelsey Cole, he’s immediately intrigued.
Too bad Kelsey hates football and will never date a football player.
Tropes: Age gap
8. Intercepted by Alexa Martin
In the first book of the Playbook series, Marlee Harper is burned by her long-time NFL boyfriend she vows to never date an athlete again. Unfortunately, the new hotshot quarterback Gavin Pope has other plans.
Not only do they have to contend with Marlee’s experience with her ex, but the team’s wives are determined to take down Marlee. Author Alexa Martin delivers a love story that’ll have to survive the football season and all that comes with it.
9. Fumbled by Alexa Martin
Poppy Patterson once had a high school sweetheart and now she’s a single mother doing what she can to make ends meet. Her ex is a starting wide receiver in the NFL, but eventually the two cross paths again. The feelings are still there, but there’s a lot of secerts that are going to need to come to light before they can work out.
Tropes: Second chance, secret child
10. Beauty and the Baller by Ilsa Madden-Mills
After losing his fiancee in a car accident and then his career, ex-NFL starting quarterback Ronan Smith is in the deep end of grief and bad choices. Former beauty queen Nova Morgan sneaks into a high-profile party, leading to a one-night stand between the two.
Two years later, Nova moves back to her hometown where she finds her neighbor is the new head coach of the high school football team and none other than Ronan Smith. The only problem is – he doesn’t remember her and suggests she be his fake girlfriend to keep the women of the town at bay.
Tropes: Fake dating
11. The Hook Up (Game On #1) by Kristen Callihan
This book kicks off the first book in the Game On series, introducing us to the charming star quarterback Drew Baylor and the fiercely independent Anna Jones. Their chemistry is electric, making this a must-read for any sports romance fan.
12. Fair Catch (Red Zone Rivals #1) by Kandi Steiner
As if things weren’t already tough enough as the only girl on a college football team, Coach had to go and assign Zeke Collins as Riley’s roommate. Not only his her brother’s best friend, but he’s cocky and gets on her last nerve.
But the forced proximity has her towing the line between hating him and wanting him.
Tropes: Enemies to lovers, roommates, brother’s best friend, forced proximity
13. King of Campus by Jennifer Sucevic
Roan King is the uncrowned king of Barnett University and Ivy Kaster has every intention of avoiding him like the plague. But chance encounter after chance encounter is making it more and more difficult for her to stay away from him.
Thrown together on a class project, Ivy realizes he’s not everything he appears to be and Roan realizes she’s the only girl who has taken the time to see the real him.
Tropes: Enemies to lovers, slow burn
14. Scoring with the Wrong Twin by Naima Simone
Sophia Cruz is the shy and awkward twin who swaps places for a modeling shoot after her twin begs her to. That’s when Zephirin Black – tight end for the Washington Warriors – walks on to set.
Zephirin isn’t big on second chances, but Sophia seems quirkier, funnier, and sexier than the first time he met her. But will telling him who she really is lose him for good?
Tropes: Fake identity
15. The Dating Playbook by Farrah Rochon
Jamar Dixon needs help getting back into the NFL and personal trainer Taylor Powell is the perfect fit. No one can know what they’re doing though which leads to Taylor agreeing to fake date her client. Is Jamar just playing to win . . . or is he playing for keeps?
Tropes: Fake dating
16. The Baller: A Down and Dirty Football Novel by Vi Keeland
Brody Easton is the Super Bowl MVP quarterback and Delilah is the reporter in charge of interviewing him after the game – her first interview as her new job of professional sportscaster. She knows he has a reputation and he lives up to it when he strips off his towel and continues the interview completely bare.
Delilah would never consider dating this type of player, but she’s changed Brody and he’s going to prove it.
17. Saint: A Football Romance (The Nighthawk Series Book 1) by Lisa Lang Blakeney
A one-click, damn he’s funny, enemies-to-lovers sports romance and sexy love story with the hottest quarterback in the NFL.
Sabrina hates sports, but when she finds out her new client is quarterback Saint Stevenson she’s going to have to suck it up if she wants to meet her career goals.
Tropes: Enemies to lovers
18. Say You Swear (Boys of Avix #1) by Meagan Brandy
Arianna Johnson’s brother’s best friend broke her heart, but what happens when his new teammate wants to put it back together?
Noah Riley immediately wants more when he meets Arianna, the sister of his fellow teammate. And he’s willing to fight for the feelings he knows they both have while she is still healing her heart.
Tropes: He falls first, friends to lovers, love triangle
19. Enemies by Tijan
Dusty is a college student who just transferred to a new school. She’s somewhat of a social outcast and knows only one person in town – Stone Reeves – who she hates.
Where she’s invisible, he’s everywhere – the star football player. Once neighbors and friends until middle school, now they’re enemies. As Dusty’s life continues to spiral out of control, her only anchor is someone she can’t stand.
Tropes: Enemies to lovers
20. The Rivalry by Nikki Sloan
Kayla is a cheerleader at Ohio State University and Jay is the quarterback at the University of Michigan – a very deep rivalry that she takes very seriously.
But will she be able to stay away after their chance meeting at a wedding?
Tropes: Rivals to lovers romance
21. Blindsided by Eden Finley
From the moment Talon met Miller in college, he knew they were going to be friends, and they would win the Super Bowl together someday. They shared everything, even women.
But Talon didn’t know that Miller was harboring a secret crush on him. So six years after college, when Talon has an opportunity to join Miller’s NFL team, he’s elated to reconnect.
Miller is less than happy to have to fight his feelings again. When Miller starts avoiding Talon, Talon begins to question why he’s so attached to Miller. Could it be more than friendship that draws him to Miller?
Tropes: MM, friends to lovers
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