‘Classical’ doping, financial doping and beyond: UEFA’s financial fair play as a policy of anti-doping

Schubert, Mathias; Könecke, Thomas

doi:10.1080/19406940.2013.854824

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“…Furthermore, Könecke & Schubert (2014, p. 111) trace public reservation against staging mega sport events back to the notion that 'some actors-such as Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) or the IOC and certain politicians-apparently profit much more from these events than the broad public' and argue that this illegitimate imbalance was a key motivator for voters in Munich to refuse the bid (cf. also the concluding remarks in Schubert & Könecke, 2015).…”

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(N)Olympia in Germany? An analysis of the referendum against Munich 2022

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“…Szymanski (2012) examines insolvencies of English football clubs from another perspective. His research is based on two alternative hypotheses: insolvency is either considered as a consequence of 'irrational exuberance' or 'negative productivity or Müller et al, 2012;Preuss, et al, 2014;Schubert, 2014;Schubert and Könecke, 2015;Szymanski, 2014b). Here it has to be pointed out that the UEFA's FFP regime has not been considered in literature in the context of national policies (except of the consideration for France by Dermit-Richard et al, 2017) although national league associations also target at preserving the long-term viability of their clubs.…”

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Regulatory intensity in English and German professional football

Bachmaier

Lammert

Plumley

et al. 2018

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Purpose-In order to secure a proper execution of sporting competitions, national governing bodies of professional football leagues apply specific regulatory procedures. In this context, special focus is placed on requirements that are supposed to ensure financial stability of clubs. They, in turn, help avoid negative economic externalities, i.e. the problem that financial difficulties from one club can affect other clubs and stakeholders due to the interdependent relationships of the competition. These regulations on a national level in European professional football leagues show several significant differences. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to comprehensively analyze financial regulatory procedures of professional football leagues to generate possible improvements of the regulations in detail. Design/methodology/approach-Using a document analysis of the regulation books of the English Premier League and German Bundesliga, this study compares the regulatory procedures of those important European professional football leagues. Further evaluation was performed through a qualitative content analysis to develop a category system including six categories with 72 criteria from deductive and inductive procedures. For more advanced coding an assessment scale was integrated. Findings-Compared to the Premier League, the regulation of the Bundesliga points to a more intensive regulation in all categories and across all analyzed indices. The results of both leagues partially reveal that assessment and monitoring requirements tend to be ineffective, which can substantially endanger the achievement of the whole monitoring process' aims. The intention to ensure the financial stability for securing the league competition can be missed in such a situation and negative economic externalities cannot be prevented effectively. Originality/value-For the first time, this study includes all relevant requirements of financial club assessment and monitoring. Thereby, an abstract comprehensive and systematic structure for professional team sports leagues is described and allows for a concrete international comparison of two European professional football leagues. At the end several approaches to improve the regulatory framework are provided.

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“…The term 'doping' most commonly refers to the use of substances (drugs such as EPO) and methods (such as blood doping) of improving sporting performances which are currently prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). More recently, however, the term has become a label for a broad range of purportedly dubious or unethical means of gaining advantage in sport (Schubert and Konecke, 2015). For example, the term 'mechanical doping' has been used in the context of elite road cycling to refer to the alleged use of illegal technology such as hidden motors in bicycle cranks, frames and wheels.…”

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“…For example, the term 'mechanical doping' has been used in the context of elite road cycling to refer to the alleged use of illegal technology such as hidden motors in bicycle cranks, frames and wheels. Similarly, Oscar Pistorius was accused of 'techno-doping' because his blades were thought to give him an unfair advantage over competitors that did not use them (Schubert and Konecke, 2015 In using the term 'financial doping' one presumably seeks to place the enhancement of performance through financial investments on the same footing as illegitimate enhancement of performance through banned substances and practices. In other words, if EPO is banned because of reasons a,b,c, then those reasons apply equally to financial domination in sport.…”

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“…The suggestion that the over-commercialisation of sport is threatening its integrity and future vitality is by no means new (Morgan, 2006;Walsh and Giulianotti, 2007;Lasch, 2010;Muller et al, 2012;Franck, 2014;Szymanski, 2014) and is not lost on footballing authorities. Such concerns presumably led the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to introduce their Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations, which some scholars (Szymanski, 2014;Schubert and Konecke: 2015) consider to be a form of anti-doping policy.…”

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Financial Doping in the English Premier League

Iorwerth

Tomkins²,

Riley³

2017

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

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Whilst the relationship between money and success in elite sport is acknowledged, the exact nature, extent and implications of this relationship is one that has not been carefully examined. In this paper we have three main aims. Firstly, to provide empirical evidence of the extent that money buys success in the English Premier League. Secondly, to evaluate this evidence from a sports ethics perspective, and, finally, to discuss potential solutions to the problem. We argue that the evident performance advantage teams gain through financial investments is contrary to the spirit of sport as it undermines athletic excellence and the 'sweet tension of uncertainty of outcome' that is central to good competition. Consequently, financial investments in elite football ought to be regulated and controlled. We argue, however, that current attempts to do so (via Financial Fair Play Regulations) are inadequate as they focus on issues concerning financial health, rather than the health of the game in terms of spirit and fairness.

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‘Classical’ doping, financial doping and beyond: UEFA’s financial fair play as a policy of anti-doping

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(N)Olympia in Germany? An analysis of the referendum against Munich 2022

(N)Olympia in Germany? An analysis of the referendum against Munich 2022

Regulatory intensity in English and German professional football

Financial Doping in the English Premier League

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