Routledge Handbook of Football Business and Management

Soccer is the world’s most valuable sport, generating bigger revenues, as well as being watched and played by more people, than any other. It is virtually impossible to understand the business of sport without understanding the football industry. This book surveys contemporary football in unparalleled breadth and depth. Presenting critical insights from world-leading football scholars and introducing football’s key organisations, leagues and emerging nations, it explores key themes from governance and law to strategy and finance, as well as cutting edge topics such as analytics, digital media and the women’s game. This is essential reading for all students, researchers and practitioners working in football, sport business, sport management or mainstream business and management.

1. Introduction to the Handbook of Football Business and Management Simon Chadwick, Daniel Parnell, Paul Widdop and Christos Anagnostopoulos 2. A Framework for Diversification Decisions in Professional Football Sascha L. Schmidt and Florian Holzmayer 3. Global Football: Defining the rules of the changing game Remco M. Beek, Martijn Ernestand Jos Verschueren 4. Structures and Policies at the main European football leagues: Evolution and Recent Changes Juan Luis Paramio-Salcines and Ramón Llopis-Goig 5. Points, Pounds and Politics in the Governance of Football Hallgeir Gammelsæter 6. Contemporary Issues in the Management of Grassroots Football Jimmy O’Gorman, Danny Fitzpatrick, Jonathan Sibley, Matthew Hindmarsh, Zora Saskova, and Dan Parnell 7. Football Law Richard Parrish and Adam Pendlebury 8. Football and Marketing Argyro Elisavet Manoli and James Andrew Kenyon 9. Digital and Social Media Alex Fenton and Boris Helleu 10. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Football: Exploring Modes of CSR Implementation Geraldine Ziemers, Christos Anagnostopoulos, Thierry Zintz, and Annick Willem 11. Agents and Intermediaries Giambattista Rossi 12. Managing Performance in Elite Professional Football Barry Drust, Andy O’Boyle, and Mark Gillett 13. The Sporting Director: Exploring Current Practice and Challenges within Elite Football Daniel Parnell, Ryan Groom, Paul Widdop and Sara Ward 14. Strategic Management in Football Organisations Mikkel Draebye 15. Finance and Accounting in Football Rob Wilson and Daniel Plumley 16. Sponsorships, Stadia and Naming Rights Leah Gillooly and Dominic Medway 17. Venue Management in Football Eric C. Schwarz 18. Human Resource Management in Football Jonathan Lord 19. Fans, Spectators, Consumers in Football Petros Parganas 20. Sports Business Analytics: the past, the present and the future Ian G. McHale 21. Leagues, Tournaments and Competitions Angel Barajas and Thadeu Gasparetto 22. Football, Networks and Relationships Anna Gerke and Hagen Wäsche 23. Leveraging Football Events Vitor Sobral, Sheranne Fairley and Danny O’Brien 24. The labour markets of professional football players Jean-François Brocard and Christophe Lepetit 25. Value Management in Football: A Framework to Develop and Analyse Competitive Advantage Harald Dolles and Sten Söderman 26. Supply Chain Management in Professional Football Birnir Egilsson 27. Risk and Crisis Management Dominic Elliott 28. Women and Football Sue Bridgewater 29. Managing match officials: The influence of business and the impact of finance in an era of Premier League dominance Tom Webb 30. Perspectives on Ethics and Integrity in Football Simon Gardiner 31. Talent Management Richard P. Bailey, Rob J. Bailey, and Nick Levett 32. Retailing in the Football Industry Dimitrios Kolyperas and Leigh Sparks 33. Sport Licensed Products in the Football Industry Dimitra Papadimitriou and Artemisia Apostolopoulou 34. FIFA Tom Bason, Paul Salisbury and Simon Gérard 35. UEFA Kenneth Cortsen 36. CONMEBOL: South American Confederation of Football Renan Petersen-Wagner, Alberto Reinaldo Reppold Filho, Cássia Damiani, Felipe Magno and Felippe Marchetti 37. Asian Football Confederation (AFC) David Pifer 38. Confederation of African Football (CAF) Michael M. Goldman and Mlondi Mashinini 39. CONCACAF Joel Rookwood and Glaucio Scremin 40. Oceania Football Confederation Geoff Dickson and Sean Phelps 41. Football in China Simon Chadwick and Jonathan Sullivan 42. Business and Governance of Football in Qatar Mahfoud Amara and Ahmed Al-Emadi 43. Football in Brazil Leonardo José Mataruna-Dos-Santos, Daniel Range, André Luiz Pereira Guimarães, Luis Antonio Verdini de Carvalho and Carlos Eugenio Zardini Filho 44. Football in Turkey Cem Tinaz, Emir Güney and Ahmet Talimciler 45. Management of Football in India Gautam Ahuja and Eric C. Schwarz 46. Soccer in the United States Clinton J. Warren and Kwame J. Agyemang 47. The Rise and Rise of the World’s Favourite Sport Simon Chadwick, Daniel Parnell, Paul Widdop and Christos Anagnostopoulos

Simon Chadwick is Professor of Eurasian Sport and Director of the Centre for the Eurasian Sport Industry at emlyon business school (based in Paris and Shanghai). He is also a Founding Director of the China Soccer Observatory at the University of Nottingham, UK and regularly works with organisations in football across the world, including clubs, federations, commercial partners, event organisers and governments. He tweets: @Prof_Chadwick. Daniel Parnell is an Associate Professor in Sport Business at the University of Liverpool Management School, UK. Dan’s research interests lie in business management, policy, and social and economic networks in sport. He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Managing Sport and Leisure and is the co-founder of The Football Collective, a global network of football scholars. He is also a co-editor of the Routledge book series ‘Critical Research in Football’. On top of this, Dan maintains extensive links within professional sport clubs, is trustee of Sport Leaders UK and is CEO of the Association of Sporting Directors. He tweets from: @parnell_daniel. Paul Widdop is Senior Research Fellow in Sport Business at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His research explores social and economic networks on the consumption and production of Sport. He has published widely in areas of sport and popular culture including articles in Journal of Consumer Culture, Cultural Sociology, Cultural Trends, Political Behaviour, Electoral Studies, and Leisure Sciences. Christos Anagnostopoulos is the Deputy Head of Business & Management School at University of Central Lancashire (Cyprus campus) and an Associate Professor in Sport Management at Molde University College, Norway. His research interests lie in corporate social responsibility, governance, and more recently entrepreneurship and positive organisational behaviour in sport. Christos serves as the General Secretary for the Cyprus Basketball Federation Foundation as well as an editorial board member in nine major academic journals serving sport management. He tweets: @chrisanagno.