Who owns football? : the governance and management of the club game worldwide
The commercialisation of football in Europe since the 1990s has had a number of consequences for the game, not all of them beneficial to its wellbeing. The market forces that have defined these developments have impacted upon the financial future of clubs as key social and cultural institutions and some continue to see their existence threatened. The inevitable result is enforced sale of club assets for commercial development; their relocation to towns and cities many miles from their original locale, or the acquisition of clubs by individuals of whose motives many fans are rightly suspicious. In recent years one of the most high profile responses to these developments has been for groups of supporters to join together and purchase ownership of part of the club, or in some cases the entire club, to run it on a non-commercial basis. It mimics the successful membership model deployed by FC Barcelona and upon which entire organisations, like the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) has successfully existed for 125 years. This book will explore the background to this movement and its practical outworking by providing individual case studies from several European countries. This book was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society
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IX, 167 Seiten : Illustrationen.
9780415445702, 9780415661249, 0415445701, 0415661242
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1. Introduction: models of football governance and management in international sport David Hassan and Sean Hamil 2. Financial performance in English professional football: ‘an inconvenient truth’ Sean Hamil and Geoff Walters 3. The governance and regulation of Italian football Sean Hamil, Stephen Morrow, Catharine Idle, Giambattista Rossi and Stefano Faccendini 4. Governance and the Gaelic Athletic Association: time to move beyond the amateur ideal? David Hassan 5. Who owns England’s game? American professional sporting influences and foreign ownership in the Premier League John Nauright and John Ramfjord 6. ‘Club versus country’ in rugby union: tensions in an exceptional New Zealand system Camilla Obel 7. The impact of televised football on stadium attendances in English and Spanish league football Babatunde Buraimo, Juan Luis Paramio and Carlos Campos 8. The model of governance at FC Barcelona: balancing member democracy, commercial strategy, corporate social responsibility and sporting performance Sean Hamil, Geoff Walters and Lee Watson
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