1st Edition
Who Owns Football? Models of Football Governance and Management in International Sport
1. Introduction: models of football governance and management in international sport David Hassan and Sean Hamil 2. Financial performance in English professional football: ‘an inconvenient truth’ Sean Hamil and Geoff Walters 3. The governance and regulation of Italian football Sean Hamil, Stephen Morrow, Catharine Idle, Giambattista Rossi and Stefano Faccendini 4. Governance and the Gaelic Athletic Association: time to move beyond the amateur ideal? David Hassan 5. Who owns England’s game? American professional sporting influences and foreign ownership in the Premier League John Nauright and John Ramfjord 6. ‘Club versus country’ in rugby union: tensions in an exceptional New Zealand system Camilla Obel 7. The impact of televised football on stadium attendances in English and Spanish league football Babatunde Buraimo, Juan Luis Paramio and Carlos Campos 8. The model of governance at FC Barcelona: balancing member democracy, commercial strategy, corporate social responsibility and sporting performance Sean Hamil, Geoff Walters and Lee Watson
Biography
David Hassan is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ulster. He is Academic Editor of Sport in Society and joint Editor of Foundations in Sport Management, a new Routledge series. Dr. Hassan has published extensively in the politics and governance of sport in a range of international academic journals.
Sean Hamil is a Lecturer in the Department of Management at Birkbeck College, University of London. A co-founder of Birkbeck College’s Sport Business Centre, Sean has published extensively on the subject of governance in the football industry, and in particular on the role of mutual ownership models at football clubs.
