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Article 12.12.2024
Women's football faces integrity challenges amid betting surge
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Article 10.12.2024
The Public Investment Fund’s growing sports portfolio
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Article 09.12.2024
Neom: A futuristic vision for sport on feet of clay
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Article 06.12.2024
Aramco: Rich on oil, rich on sport
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Article 05.12.2024
Saudi Arabia’s inner circle: No match for traditional sports leaders
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Article 02.12.2024
Play the Game publishes fresh dataset exposing Saudi Arabia’s enormous influence in world sports
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Article 02.12.2024
A Kingdom's football ambition: The road to 2034
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Article 29.11.2024
Play the Game 2025 conference announced for 5-8 October 2025
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Article 26.11.2024
Whistleblower challenges the integrity of the Philippine National Volleyball Federation
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Opinion 15.11.2024
The dangers of ‘balanced journalism’: A call for journalists to scrutinise Saudi’s sports investments
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Article 05.11.2024
FIFA ignores new sponsor Aramco’s dismal record on carbon emissions
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Article 01.11.2024
New team members and change of roles at Play the Game
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Saudi Arabia’s grip on world sport
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Publication December 2024
Saudi Arabia's grip on world sport
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Publication September 2024
Evaluation of Play the Game 2024
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Publication June 2024
European sport: one or several sporting realities?
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Publication January 2024
When the silence of sport was broken - Sports politics in the times of Play the Game
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Publication December 2023
Research on the Sports Legacy of Brazilian Stadiums from the 2014 FIFA World Cup
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Publication September 2023
Strengthening Athlete Power in Sport - Final report
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Publication June 2023
Strengthening Athlete Power in Sport - A guide to opening new ways in sports governance
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Publication June 2023
ClearingSport - Towards an agency countering crime and protecting integrity in world sport
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Publication February 2023
Mapping the sport and climate space
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Publication January 2023
Evaluation of Play the Game 2022 - is there a cure for sport?
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Publication June 2022
Elite sports in Finland
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Publication January 2022
A vote with a weight
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ClearingSport: Countering corruption, protecting integrity
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Dataset on sports power relations in Saudi Arabia
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The financing of grassroots sport in Europe
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National Sports Governance Observer (NSGO)
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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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