News from Play the Game

The Council of the European Union encourages member states to place more emphasis on the fight against doping in the recreational sports sector. In a meeting of the Education, Youth, Culture and...[more]

Many of the stadiums constructed or renovated for sport’s major events end up as a great financial burden for their public owners and local communities, who are not able to fill the stadiums after...[more]

COMMENT: International sport and local politicians are responsible for the waste of resources worth billions of dollars when demanding oversized stadiums that mainly serve the interests of the...[more]

While pressure is on FIFA to strengthen transparency and democracy in world football, the South American football confederation CONMEBOL goes in the opposite direction by appointing Nicolas Leoz...[more]

The British Olympic Association (BOA) lost its battle with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), and must now ratify its policy of giving lifetime Olympic...[more]

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning a boycott of the Euro 2012 football tournament taking place in Ukraine in June unless the imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is released, and...[more]

EASM 2012 announces Mark Pieth, head of FIFA's Independent Governance Committee, as a keynote speaker at the conference in Aalborg, Denmark at 18-21 September.[more]

In a report released today the Council of Europe sharpens it tone against FIFA and provides new information about the scale of the corruption that has affected the world governing body of...[more]

In a presentation given at the Crime and Sport Research Conference in Canberra, Australia on 23 March, Sport and Anti-doping Consultant Catherine Ordway discusses the threat of corruption in sport.[more]

New research project funded by the European Commission seeks to investigate football’s impact on identity dynamics and cultural change in Europe.[more]

Last week, UEFA, the European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL), the European Club Association (ECA) and the players union FIFPro Division Europe agreed on a "historic" agreement set to...[more]

Qatar’s increasing engagement in European soccer and international sport is just one leg in the small Gulf State’s high-risk attempts to position itself as a global player ‘on the right side of...[more]

Brazil's Senate is still against adopting a special law regarding the World Cup. In particular, the FIFA requirements for beer sales at World Cup stadiums, which go against previous FIFA guidelines,...[more]

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) met yesterday to hear the former FIFA executive Mohamed Bin Hammam’s appeal against his life-time ban from football.  The CAS hearing is expected to end...[more]

A new study for the European Commission maps for the first time the criminal law provisions against match-fixing in the European Union’s 27 countries. There is a need for closer cooperation and...[more]

Alongside their successful bids for high profiled sports events, Qatar and other Gulf states are gaining an increasing influence in European football through their acquisition of European soccer...[more]

The deadline for abstract submission for EASM 2012 has been extended following great demand.[more]

Join us in the effort to make sports governance better. Visit Play the Game’s website for the EU funded project ‘Action for Good Governance in International Sports Organisations’ (AGGIS) to learn...[more]

Mounting trouble in the Gulf state might mean a cancellation of the Formula One Grand Prix next weekend. Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone said yesterday that the racing teams will have the final...[more]

In February 2012, the International Director of Play the Game, Jens Sejer Andersen, gave a presentation at the Birkbeck Sport Business Centre titled “Is the Corporate Governance of World Sport in...[more]