[1] It is published by Offside Press AB[2] six times a year but there are often an extra issue published in connection to larger events, such as the FIFA World Cup.
The coverage of the articles include the whole world—from a Flamengo match in Bolivia, to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, to the lower divisions of Swedish football and to the fan culture around FC St. Pauli—and people that are or have written for Offside include Simon Kuper, Phil Ball, Sid Lowe, Åke Edwardson, Peter Birro and Thomas Bodström.
The two editors of Offside, Mattias Göransson and Tobias Regnell won the Swedish journalist prize Stora Journalistpriset in 2002 "with knowledge, love and feeling for the game, having moved the borders of sport journalism", and the magazine has been described as "salvation for the 'intellectual supporter'".
In 2011, Offside made an interview with the Swedish footballer Anton Hysén, in which he came out as gay.
[3] The interview received much attention in media around the world.