Future acquired the magazine from Haymarket Media Group in 2018.

[1] Haymarket previously acquired Future's earlier football magazine Total Football in 2001 in exchange of subscriber list and the rights to the masthead of its defunct internet magazine The Net, Haymarket later absorbed Total Football into FourFourTwo.

[2][3] In 2008 FourFourTwo entered into a three-year shirt sponsorship deal with Swindon Town.

[6][7] At the end of the 2012–13 Premier League season, FourFourTwo announced its first Stats Zone Awards.

[8] In May 2015, the inaugural list of the 50 best Asian players in world football was announced.