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Globalisation of Professional Sport Finance

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  • Wladimir Andreff

    (Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, 75000 Paris, France)

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The objective of the present paper is to put a milestone on the roadmap toward a global economic system of professional sport, at least as regards its financial dimension, i.e., its model of finance, its ownership, and some new trends in global sport finance. Professional sport went through a radical change during the 1990s when switching from gate receipts to TV rights revenues as its major source of finance and from local/domestic to internationalised/globalised sources of revenue. This change was more marked in European soccer (football) before spreading throughout other professional sport disciplines. In fact, the whole distribution of sport financing was restructured as shown in this paper. Starting from this evidence of the first stage of sport finance globalisation, it appears that new transformations have been at work in sport finance more recently. In particular, soccer moved from globalisation of flows (revenues, finance) to asset globalisation in terms of club ownership. At last, this paper discusses the emergence of new trends in global sport finance such as treating professional (soccer) players as financial assets and crypto-assets penetrating the sports business.

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  • Wladimir Andreff, 2024. "Globalisation of Professional Sport Finance," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 17(5), pages 1-9, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jjrfmx:v:17:y:2024:i:5:p:201-:d:1393263
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