Governance Models Across Football Leagues and Clubs
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Building on its first governance study about national associations
and leagues (Boillat & Poli, 2014), CIES has published a second
book that analyses the league-club relationship and issues around
internal club governance. This research project, started in late
2014 and now published in the wake of ongoing FIFA governance
reforms, studies the variety of models that exist at both league
and club level. In this vein, the authors draw on core areas of
club licensing as a basis for an exploratory global comparative
analysis of a sample of eighteen leagues and one hundred and
forty-one clubs spanning all six confederations. Covered in the
book are topics including ownership requirements, political
representation and decision-making, financial rights and
obligations, players’ status, infrastructure, promotion/relegation
and the disciplinary process. The authors outline the limits of
where league responsibilities end and club ones begin. At the club
level, the study explores the questions of legal form, political
representation and management, administrative structure and the
role of supporters and links with the community. The authors
highlight the variety of league-club relationships and internal
club governance models across the globe. In general, the book
argues that clubs have a strong voice in the management and
governance of their leagues. However, the club-league relationships
are far from uniform around the world and cannot be categorized as
simply either ‘horizontal’ or ‘vertical’. Clubs themselves have
diverse internal structures, even if there are some common
practices across continents. This book serves as a first step
towards a blueprint for possible global benchmarking across leagues
and clubs and argues for the necessity of ongoing empirical analysis
of professional football. |
| Mots-clés |
Football (soccer), Sports Law, Regulation And Governance, Global Governance, Governance, Sports Management, Football Management, Sport |
| Citation | Tallec Marston, K., & Boillat, C. (2016). Governance Models Across Football Leagues and Clubs (Vol. 5). Neuchâtel: Centre International d’Etude du Sport (CIES). |
| Type | Livre (Anglais) |
| Année | 2016 |
| Titre de la collection | Editions CIES - Collection Réflexions sportives |
| Editeur commercial | Centre International d’Etude du Sport (CIES) (Neuchâtel) |
| Volume | 5 |
| Nombre de pages | 151 |
| URL | https://www.cies.ch/fileadmin/documents/CIES/Governance_I... |