The 2014/2015 season of the English Premier League will kick off on Saturday the 16th of August. With about one week until the start of a new English football season, I have decided to look at some ‘football economic’ factors of the world’s most revenue-generating football league. Photo: Revenue break-down of top five European football […]
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Football & business models: Factors behind Germany’s World Cup success?
Germany is one of the super powers in the world of football and the country’s latest success manifests the impression that Germany’s overall association with quality, team-work, and confidence is a fine exemplification of how to turn an understanding of the modern football context into titles. During what was thought to be one of the […]
Innovative commercial solutions in top football give clubs additional opportunities to monetize on all relevant touch points
By Kenneth Cortsen on April 30, 2014 in Sport & Events, Sport & Media Relations, Sport Economy, Sport Management, Sport Marketing
The professionalization of football brings up new innovative ways to connect with fans and it offers new touch points that blends digital and face2face breeding grounds in terms of additional monetization opportunities. Every match day is an excellent sports event, which is the core of the operations of a professional football business and whether the […]
The cohesion between sporting and business performances – the case of Manchester United & the English Premier League
Since David Moyes took charge as manager of Manchester United after Sir Alex Ferguson, the sporting position of Manchester United in the English Premier League has gone downhill. This development is hurtful for the fans of the club and it has caused lots of turmoil around United that the club hasn’t come positively out of […]
The future points to a better blend between in-depth athlete performance data and commercialization
By Kenneth Cortsen on April 2, 2014 in Sport & Events, Sport & Media Relations, Sport Economy, Sport Management, Sport Marketing
Studies have shown that implementation and application of strategies concerning the balance between ‘on field performance’ and ‘economic performance’ may be useful in the business of professional sports (Hamil, 2008; Krabbenbos, 2013). This has shifted the paradigm of running a professional sports entitiy in the sense that there has been a change from merely profiting […]