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Analysing the Australian Football League’s (AFL) governance structure: how does it compare to Europe’s “club-run” leagues? Open
Rationale/Purpose: The Australian Football League's (AFL) governance structure is largely unique in the context of professional sports leagues, yet it has rarely been studied. This paper analyses the various components of the AFL’s “Indepe…
Critical Issues in Football Open
Diabetes has become a condition which is acknowledged for its global impact on healthcare and society. However, much of sport research has followed a physiology- focus that has increased awareness of the condition’s effect on the body with…
Perceptions of role ambiguity for Sporting Directors in professional football Open
The Sporting Director is one strategy football clubs have adopted to protect their financial sustainability. Little to no research has been undertaken on the Sporting Director role in football. This article draws upon a qualitative methodo…
View article: Managing sport and leisure in the era of Covid-19
Managing sport and leisure in the era of Covid-19 Open
In December 2019 the world was first informed of a new virus, called SARS-CoV-2 (hereafter Covid-19) spreading fast originally in China and quickly in the rest of the world, resulting in the hospitalisation and death of millions of people …
Recruitment in elite football: a network approach Open
Research Question: Contemporary football (soccer) is a competitive industry. Some football clubs have enacted new roles, such as the Sporting Director, to gain a competitive advantage through effective recruitment of non-playing staff. Thi…
The Impact of Global Economic Downturn on Sport Management Open
This special issue was inspired by the challenges faced by sport managers in our global community in the face of the economic downturn. During the calls for the special issue, society faced one of its most unprecedented challenges, COVID-1…
Redesigning the Games? The 2020 Olympic Games, Playbooks and new sports event risk management tools Open
Rationale/Purpose: More than a year into the pandemic, scholars and practitioners have highlighted several of the organizational implications of coronavirus-disease 2019 (COVID-19) on worldwide cultural festivals and sporting events. Follo…
Boundary Spanning in Sport for Development: Opening Transdisciplinary and Intersectoral Perspectives Open
We can no longer claim that academic interest in the area of sport and social inclusion is lacking. Dedicated books, special issues, commissioned reports, and landmark articles on the topic of social inclusion and sport have been produced …
Submission of Evidence on the Disproportionate Impact of Covid-19 on Grassroots Football: An agenda to protect our game and communities.:Submitted to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee Open
In this submission, we discuss why grassroots football (and particularly the vulnerable communities that rely on it) will be negatively affected by COVID-19. The centrality of football – in terms of the both professional football clubs and…
View article: Return to elite football after the COVID-19 lockdown
Return to elite football after the COVID-19 lockdown Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the conditions for competitive football around the globe dramatically. Several competitions and leagues have been cancelled or postponed. Players have firstly been forced to training in solitude. In a seco…
Reflecting on our heritage and planning our future: 25 years of managing sport and leisure Open
This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the international journal, Managing Sport and Leisure. In our first editorial as Editors-in-Chief we would like to outline some of our ideas for the journal ...
Football and politics: the politics of football Open
How often have we heard the old adage that sport and politics should not mix? Indeed, the New Year was only days old when the International Committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games warned that ath...
Topological network properties of the European football loan system Open
Research question: Following a network perspective, we present football's European loan system as an economic network and aim to answer the following questions; (i) what is the structure of the network? and, (ii) what are the topological p…
View article: Austerity, policy and sport participation in England
Austerity, policy and sport participation in England Open
This study seeks to understand participation levels in sport across socio-demographic groups, specifically for the period 2008–14, in the context of austerity measures taken by central government resulting in local authority income and exp…
View article: Sport policy and politics in an era of austerity
Sport policy and politics in an era of austerity Open
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines participation levels in sport in England across socio-demographic groups between 2008 and 2014 in the context o…
Tackling mental health: the role of professional football clubs Open
In the UK, professional football clubs are being used as settings for the delivery of interventions that promote mental health in a number of ways including (i) the delivery of physical activity interventions to improve the mental health o…
Perspectives from those involved in healthy stadia Open
Healthy stadia is a growing agenda across industry and in turn academia. In this era of growth, much of the research literature is primarily sourced from academics with little contribution from applied and industry stakeholders. As such, t…
Sport policy and English primary physical education: the role of professional football clubs in outsourcing Open
Sports policy in England has led to considerable recent investment in Primary Physical Education (PE) via the 'PE and Sport Premium'. An outcome of this has been growth in the outsourcing – handing over control of services to external agen…
Lessons from the field for working in Healthy Stadia: physical activity practitioners reflect on ‘sport’ Open
Drawing on four areas of our ongoing work, each with its own distinctive relevance to the Healthy Stadia agenda, this paper addresses the tension inherent to programmes aiming to promote physical activity through sport. Our experiences hig…
The community impact of football pitches: a case study of Maidstone United FC Open
The use of third-generation artificial grass pitches (AGPs) is growing in English semi-professional football. As usage grows, research into the impact of AGPs is needed, in order to examine the potential impact of such surfaces for a footb…
Sport for development and peace in Latin America and the Caribbean Open
This Special Issue aims to offer a focus point for the growing literature on ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ (SDP) in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was conceived during field visits to Medellín (Colombia) in 2014 and 2015 by the ed…
The emergence of the sporting director role in football and the potential of social network theory in future research Open
The commodified and highly competitive nature of professional football (soccer) has increased the professionalisation of organisational structures and management practices within clubs that enhance their competitive advantages within the l…
Management strategies of non-profit community sport facilities in an era of austerity Open
Research Question: This qualitative research explores the impact of austerity on community sport facilities across England (United Kingdom), drawing upon resource dependence theory (RDT) embedded within network theory. Research Methods: In…
The Stand Up to Bullying (SU2B) Project: Participatory Action Research with Middle School Youth Open
The Stand Up to Bullying (SU2B) participatory action research project is presented as an approach to collaborative community action. The SU2B project, conducted in the United States, represents an interdisciplinary collaboration with two c…
The “Football is Medicine” platform—scientific evidence, large‐scale implementation of evidence‐based concepts and future perspectives Open
The idea that football can be used as therapy and as a high-intensity and literally breath-taking training regime goes back centuries. To take one prominent example, the French philosopher Voltaire describes in the Book of Fate (1747), how…
View article: Sport policy and politics in an era of austerity
Sport policy and politics in an era of austerity Open
This book assesses the impact of austerity measures introduced by UK and EU governments for public and third sector organisations providing sport-related services and for service users.