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Police raid football body: World Cup players seize assets

10 February 2012

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) was subjected to a new low Wednesday morning as policemen swooped down on its Dundonald Street headquarters and seized removable assets.[more]




Brazil is set to repeat mistakes from previous mega-events in 2012 and 2014

05 October 2011

The next football World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games threaten to produce a catalogue of white elephants for Brazil, while restricting benefits to the business community, a panel of academics warned at today’s Play the Game.[more]




Financial Fair Play – a necessary evil?

21 June 2011

The new UEFA concept of Financial Fair Play is blurry and mounts the risk of court cases, according to leading sport economic, Professor Stefan Szymanski from the CASS Business School in London. Others do not see any good...[more]




Financial Fair Play rules not yet ‘set in stone’

31 March 2011

UEFA expressed concerns that club losses could rise by 50 per cent in 2010 when their regulation to stop clubs’ overspending, Financial Fair Play, was discussed at the SoccerEx Forum in Manchester.[more]




Team Handball on the brink of insolvency

17 March 2011

New in Knowledge Bank: Despite success for the Danish male national team at the 2011 World Championships in Sweden, the financial development in the Danish men’s and women’s League clubs is worse than ever. Analysis on the...[more]




Handball clubs on the brink of insolvency

16 March 2011

Despite success for the Danish male national team at the 2011 World Championships in Sweden, the financial development in the Danish men’s and women’s Leauge clubs is worse than ever. Talks on financial fair play have to reach...[more]




New study predicts bankruptcies in European football clubs

30 July 2010

A.T. Kearney has recently released the EU Football Sustainability Study. The study claims that clubs in the biggest leagues in Europe have the potential to go bankrupt if nothing is done. It argues that unless stricter financial...[more]




World Cup afterthoughts

16 July 2010

The party is over and the World Cup has left South Africa, and generally the reviews have been very good. FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, praised South Africa’s efforts in hosting this year’s World Cup by giving them nine out of 10.[more]




Playing by FIFA’s rules: The Politics and Potential Legacy of Port Elizabeth’s Hosting 2010 World Cup Matches

29 June 2010

This paper, by Dr. Gary Baines, looks into the way in which the hosting of 2010 World Cup matches has effected South African city Port Elizabeth. It also examines the potential legacy for the city, a legacy viewed as “likely to...[more]




New report examines threats to the integrity of sport

14 June 2010

The Examination of Threats to the Integrity of Sports was commissioned by the EU Sports Platform and has been launched in European Parliament. The report, elaborated by Danish research institute Oxford Research, outlines the key...[more]




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