Abstract:

This article analyses the champion ceremony of Leicester City Football Club and the mourning ceremony of Chapecoense Football Club from ritual theory.The article explains the sacred and social nature of the two rituals from misfortune avoidance and performance ceremony. Meanwhile, semiotic analysis shows that the two rituals are symbol systems. Symbols are combined into a comprehensive meaning unit to reflect the biaxial relations.Text and co-text contain a variety of social culture information and people with same text-identity share one cultural code. Synchronic happenings and diachronic collective memories extend the content of meaning web with the help of infinite semioses.The two ceremonies reestablish the attributes of traditional rituals in form, content, function and spirit and have good collective identity impact on community members' ideology construction. The research is conducive to the analysis of sports and its social function.

Key words: ritual, champion ceremony, air crash mourning ceremony, symbol, collective identity, lecester city football club, chapcoense football club