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PtG Article 10.07.2025
Open call 2025 for journalistic articles and investigations on sports integrity and governance
Vance, Trump and Infantino on a podium
PtG Opinion 04.07.2025
FIFA’s 2026 World Cup could emit 70 million tons of CO2 with deadly human costs
Colombian artists perform with energy at the closing of the Pan American Games 2023 in Chile
PtG Article 19.06.2025
Chronicle of a disaster foretold: How Colombia lost the 2027 Pan American Games
A match between Leicester City and Nottingham Forest
PtG Article 21.05.2025
Play the Game reveals the extent of football's reliance on betting and crypto sponsorships
Jorge Hank Rhon is the owner of the MCO Caliente Group in Mexico
PtG Article 05.05.2025
The domestic threat: Why multi-club ownership is a homegrown crisis too
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PtG Article 02.05.2025
Beyond the podium: Rethinking sport with a new model for European sport
LAFC director and co-owner Ruben Gnanalingam and Kamarudin Meranun, a Malaysian business man
PtG Article 29.04.2025
Water through a sieve: The rise of untraceable power in football's MCO era
Investor Robert Platek
PtG Article 22.04.2025
The hidden webs of multi-club ownership leave football exposed to crime
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PtG Article 14.04.2025
Football’s MCO crisis: How investors are changing the game
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PtG Article 10.04.2025
ClearingSport debate: Should governments cooperate more with sport, or demand accountability?
FBI raids CONCACAF HQ
PtG Article 31.03.2025
ClearingSport launches proposal for a new international entity to protect sports integrity
Chiel Warners
PtG Article 31.03.2025
ClearingSport advisors call on sports to engage in debate on worldwide integrity body
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Saudi Arabia’s grip on world sport

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FBI raids CONCACAF
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ClearingSport: Towards an entity countering crime, corruption, and other integrity breaches in sport

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FBI raids CONCACAF HQ
PtG Publication March 2025
ClearingSport Concept note: Towards an entity countering crime, corruption and other integrity breaches in sport
FBI clears CONCACAF HQ
PtG Publication March 2025
Towards an entity countering crime, corruption, and other integrity breaches in sport
Bin Salman
PtG Publication December 2024
Saudi Arabia's grip on world sport
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PtG Publication September 2024
Evaluation of Play the Game 2024
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PtG Publication June 2024
European sport: one or several sporting realities?
Books
PtG Publication January 2024
When the silence of sport was broken - Sports politics in the times of Play the Game
The football stadium of Maracana in Rio de Janeiro
PtG Publication December 2023
Research on the Sports Legacy of Brazilian Stadiums from the 2014 FIFA World Cup
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PtG Publication September 2023
Strengthening Athlete Power in Sport - Final report
PtG Publication June 2023
Strengthening Athlete Power in Sport - A guide to opening new ways in sports governance
FBI raids CONCACAF
PtG Publication June 2023
ClearingSport - Towards an agency countering crime and protecting integrity in world sport
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PtG Publication February 2023
Mapping the sport and climate space
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PtG Publication January 2023
Evaluation of Play the Game 2022 - is there a cure for sport?
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Mohammed Bin Salman
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Dataset on sports power relations in Saudi Arabia
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National Sports Governance Observer (NSGO)
Swimmers
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Sports Governance Observer (SGO)
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Illegal sports gambling

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Athlete power and representation

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Benchmarking sports governance

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Do your own sports governance benchmarking

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Special journalistic investigations

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How the sports debate evolved in the 21st century

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