UEFA club competition records

money found its way into the coffers of the Union des Associations Européennes de Football (UEFA). The Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations were initiated in principle to create a level playing field between clubs owned by business tycoons and those who are a bit more moderate in comparison. It is a sad sight that today, European club football is in truth, nothing short of an oligopoly of about ten clubs. This distorts the competitive balance not only among them, but among leagues all over Europe

Sloane (1971) says that football club owners are utility maximisers rather than profit maximisation. Being motivated by success as their clubs participate in prestige competitions, some may argue that their investments are not ‘sustainable’ and the impact of sugar daddies has been titled as ‘financial doping’ (Muller et al., 2012). A significant proportion of debt accumulated in the league is in the form of ‘soft loans’, which is low or zero interest loans from the clubs’ owners. These soft loans will

The UEFA Champions League: A strategic Marketing Analysis b00184908 Sports Coaching Year 3 Sport Marketing School of Engineering and Science University of the West of Scotland December 2011

who plays for Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy as a central midfielder. He spent the majority of his career playing for Premier League club Liverpool, with most of that time as their captain. Gerrard spent 17 seasons at Anfield, making his Liverpool debut in 1998, cementing his place in the first team in 2000, and succeeding Sami Hyypiä as team captain in 2003. His honours include two FA Cups, three League Cups, one UEFA Champions League, one UEFA Cup, and one UEFA Super Cup. Gerrard scored Liverpool

Introduction Player transfers assume a focal part in professional football. Each season clubs attempt to build their squads by keeping their best players, exchanging and/or signing others with a definitive point of building a superior team and improving performances on the pitch. Since the Bosman ruling in 1996, the significance of transfers has expanded and has turned into a key part of each club 's core business. Today, it is exceptionally hard to envision the modern form of the sport without

A Rich Club Florentino Pérez 's management led to big changes in the club 's hierarchy. He restructured the organisations economy, making it the richest club in the world, and made changes at the top of the club. He completely renovated the Santiago Bernabéu, and created a new sports complex in Valdebebas and opened the Alfredo Di Stéfano stadium (Now used for Real Madrid Castilla matches and Real Madrid training ground). Ramón Calderón was elected as club president on 2 July 2006 and quickly signed

With the number of clubs which have participated in the UEFA competition over the past 12 years, a sample size of 6 teams will be selected for this dissertation. These clubs who must abide by Financial Fair Play regulations to participate in their competitions are Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City, Liverpool and Tottenham. It is also important to note that all clubs selected in this analysis has expense greater than €45 million, as UEFA’s break-even rule is subject to an exception

top 5 team compete in the UEFA Champion League and UEFA Euro League. Serie A have a top team in euro some of them are Juventus A.C Milan, Inter Milan and for some years they dominated the big competition like Champion league and Euro league. In European cup Serie A team made a record 27 times teams reached the final and out of 27 they won the final 12 times. Juventus won the most number of series A titles 32 and they are dominated force Serie A. Juventus is the only club in the world who won all

United Football Club | Nickname(s) | The Red Devils[1] | Founded | 1878, as Newton Heath LYR F.C. | Ground | Old Trafford (Capacity: 75,811[2]) | Owner | Glazer family | Co-chairmen | Joel and Avram Glazer | Manager | Sir Alex Ferguson | League | Premier League | 2010–11 | Premier League, 1st | Website | Club home page | | Home colours | Away colours | Third colours | |  Current season | Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old

recognized for everything that he has done, from bringing his team to success to changing how the fans and players viewed soccer. Ferguson took a team that was in shambles and led them to victory, all the while having a cultural and emotional impact on the club supporters, and the world. He introduced a new style of playing, one of hard work and high pressure, and used it to topple the teams at the top and become amongst them. At the time, no other manager was as successful as he was.