Purpose In 2009, the Union of European Football Associations approved the Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations. These … regulations refer to the requirements of transparency and financial conditions for football clubs participating in European … Italian football clubs are ready to comply with the new FFP rules. Design/methodology/approach In the analysis, the authors …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the elective affinity between sport science and elite football by … situating it first, within the wider political economy of football and second, within the dynamics of the market and work … structures and the distribution of social power peculiar to the football industry. It is premised on the view that observed …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore children’s relationships with football teams and players and the … utilised to capture children’s voices. The children were asked to take photographs around the theme of “football in my life …” and these served as interview prompts when talking to friendship pairs. Findings – Football played a central role in …

Introduces the Fox Kids Cup, which brings children of both sexes together in a global football tournament; it is a Fox …

Literature findings suggest a powerful role for Web sites in football club marketing. The authors used this as a … springboard for an exploratory study which combined qualitative interviews with empirical observations of football Web sites … economic factors. Club motives for Web site development reflected the growing commercial development of football in the UK …