Based on data from the FIFA Transfer Matching System GmbH (FIFA TMS, 2014), the volume of international transfers concluded in 2013 increased to 12,309 (+4.4% compared to 2012). On the 31st of January 2013, FIFA TMS reported 302 transfers on what was coined the year’s busiest day. Some key facts related to market activity and […]
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Football’s top clubs in terms of revenue generation – Real Madrid is still no. 1
Concerning the publication of the 17th version of the Deloitte Football Money League, it is highlighted that top football clubs continue to monetize on their commercial activities. Regarding the top 20 clubs in Deloitte’s ranking, the report shows that the total combined revenue went up to €5.4 billion (8 % increase). Top football’s continued growth […]
Transformation, framing and the cultural DNA of football’s transfer market in the postmodern era
Football’s transfer window activities have evolved over the years. Now, we are in the middle of another transfer window (January, 2014) and all the meaning associated with this. It marks isolated periods of time in which a football club can buy and sell and thus transfer players to re-structure its roster. In today’s professional football […]
Discussing advantages of applying ‘strategic CSR’ in the business of sports
By Kenneth Cortsen on January 7, 2014 in Sport & CSR, Sport Economy, Sport Management, Sport Marketing
The intersection between ’strategic CSR’ and sports branding has a capacity to integrate stakeholders’ experiences with a brand and the psychological meaning or value attached to a brand given the interactionist nature of sports branding (Cortsen, 2013), i.e. the symbolic and experiential characteristics of brand image and the fact that brand attitudes are founded upon […]
The football transfer market illustrates the transformation economy
By Kenneth Cortsen on December 10, 2013 in Best Of, Sport & Events, Sport Economy, Sport Management, Sport Marketing
Pine & Gilmore’s (1999) bestselling book “The Experience Economy – work is theater & every business a stage” marked the concept’s (i.e. experience economy) rapid blossoming. Following the development of economic offerings, which ranges from the economization of 1) commodities (in the agrarian economy), 2) goods (in the industrial economy), 3) services (in the service economy) […]