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This book is unique in offering the first truly rigorous application of economic principles to the subject of professional team sports.

Professional sports. --- Sports teams. --- Sports teams - United States - Economic aspects - . --- Business. --- Sport & Recreation. --- Sports teams --- Professional sports --- Economic aspects --- History --- Pro sports --- Teams, Sports --- Sports --- Team sports --- E-books

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This is the first book to focus on crowdfunding in sport. Crowdfunding is an important new financial instrument that is becoming more popular with sports organisations, and this book examines the research evidence for crowdfunding and considers how it might be successfully implemented.

Sports --- Crowd funding. --- Sports teams. --- Finance. --- Marketing. --- Teams, Sports --- Team sports --- Crowd financing --- Crowdfunding --- Finance

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Sport, and in particular the sporting environment, has undergone significant changes in recent decades. The social significance and commercialization of sport; the use of new technologies and organizational structures; and the involvement of various stakeholders matter more today than ever before. This book addresses the key influence of stakeholders in particular on the activities of sports organizations, taking into account certain territorial differences around the world, but also within Europe. The authors explain the key characteristics of the management of sports organizations as opposed to other organizations. These include the strategic management and setting of long-term goals such as sporting success, sustainable funding, youth training, and community building. The authors present a strategic model for these goals and stakeholders in the context of sport, together with research-based case studies in which the critical factors in the strategic management of successful and unsuccessful sports organizations are identified.

Sports administration. --- Athletic clubs --- Sports teams --- Management. --- Teams, Sports --- Team sports --- Sports --- Sports clubs --- Clubs --- Management --- Organization and administration

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"As an expansion Major League Soccer team, the Orlando City Soccer Club marked the return of professional soccer to Florida for the first time since 2001, selling out the sixty-thousand-seat Citrus Bowl for its home opener and going on to have the second-highest home attendance for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. It was the successful culmination of a nine-year process orchestrated by the team's owner, Phil Rawlins, who sold his successful sales consultancy company for a shot at sports ownership and a chance to tap into America's growing interest in pro soccer. Rawlins was relentless in building a franchise from the ground up, overcoming crippling setbacks, devious politics, and near financial ruin. Underpinning his efforts was a deep commitment to re-creating the tribal passion and community spirit of his hometown team in the United Kingdom, Stoke City, for which he served as board member for fourteen years. The payoff was the Orlando City Soccer Club, an attractive new team that galvanized the region. The subsequent acquisition of international superstar Ricardo Kaka catapulted the club to celebrity status and ensured that its debut season defied expectations. Defying Expectations gives insight into the challenges faced on the road to success, challenges through which Rawlins has remained focused on the six core values that he and his wife formulated at their kitchen table years ago, continuing to foster a community institution that gives back as much as it receives."-- "The inside story of the birth of the Orlando City Soccer Club"--

Soccer teams --- Soccer --- Soccer clubs --- Sports teams --- Clubs --- Rawlins, Phil. --- Orlando City Soccer Club. --- Orlando City SC (Soccer team) --- Orlando City Soccer Club

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Sport in East Germany is commonly associated with the systematic doping that helped to make the country an Olympic superpower. Football played little part in this controversial story. Yet, as a hugely popular activity that was deeply entwined in the social fabric, it exerted an influence that few institutions or pursuits could match. The People's Game examines the history of football from the interrelated perspectives of star players, fans, and ordinary citizens who played for fun. Using archival sources and interviews, it reveals football's fluid role in preserving and challenging communist hegemony. By repeatedly emphasising that GDR football was part of an international story, for example, through analysis of the 1974 World Cup finals, Alan McDougall shows how sport transcended the Iron Curtain. Through a study of the mass protests against the Stasi team, BFC, during the 1980s, he reveals football's role in foreshadowing the downfall of communism.

Soccer --- Soccer teams --- Soccer fans --- Sports and state. --- Sports --- Sports policy --- State and sports --- Association football --- English football --- European football --- Football (Soccer) --- Football --- Soccer spectators --- Sports spectators --- Soccer clubs --- Sports teams --- History. --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Government policy --- Fans --- Clubs