Research
Papers and Reports
The State of the Game 2006 
(939KB)
Why Do Chinese Football Supporters Watch European Tour Matches?
by Jingfeng Wang (366KB)
The
State of the Game: The Corporate Governance of Football Clubs 2005
(2,578KB)
(FGRC, 2005)
Does
the Best Team Win? An Analysis of Team Performances at EURO 2004
(466KB)
Fiona Carmichael and Dennis Thomas (FGRC, 2005)
Football
and Social Inclusion: Evaluating Social Policy (266KB)
Richard Tacon (FGRC, 2005)
The
State of the Game: The Corporate Governance of Football Clubs 2004
(819KB)
(FGRC, 2004)
Competitive
Balance in Football: Trends and Effects (265KB)
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Jonathan Michie and Christine Oughton (FGRC, 2004)
The
Professional Footballers’ Association: A Case Study of Trade Union
Growth (185KB)
html Geoff
Walters (FGRC, 2004)
The
Ownership Structure of Nationwide League Football Clubs 2002-03
(760KB)
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Stephen Hope (FGRC, 2003)
Building
Sustainable Supporters' Trusts in the West Midlands: Interim Report
(318KB)
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(FGRC and The Co-operative College, 2003)
A
'Fit and Proper' Person Test for Football? Protecting and Regulating
Clubs (614KB)
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Matthew Holt (FGRC, 2003)
Model
Rules for a Football Community Mutual
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Kevin Jaquiss (FGRC, 2003)
The
State of the Game: The Corporate Governance of Football Clubs 2003
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(FGRC, 2003)
The
State of the Game: The Corporate Governance of Football Clubs 2002
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(FGRC, 2002)
The
State of the Game: The Corporate Governance of Football Clubs 2001
(485KB)
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(FGRC, 2001)
Fresh
Players, New Tactics: Lessons from the Northampton Town Supporters
Trust (439KB)
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Phil Frampton, Jonathan Michie and Andy Walsh (FGRC, 2000)
Click here
to order a hard copy of any of the above reports. All reports cost
£5 per copy except for the State of the Game 2005 publication,
which costs £25 (discounted rate of £5 for club officials,
students and members of supporters' trusts). Please make cheques
payable to Birkbeck, University of London.
Building
Sustainable Supporters' Trusts - A Training Manual
This Training Manual will be provided free of charge to anyone taking
the training modules. Hard copies will be sent to all supporters'
trusts in England, Wales and Scotland, so contact your local supporters'
trust Secretary for further details. A CD ROM is included with the
Manual. Addtional hard copies are available for £50 (discounted
rate of £20 for supporters' trusts and club officials), click
here to order. Please
make cheques payable to Birkbeck, University of London.
Back Home - Returning Football Clubs to their
Communities
Dr Christine Oughton, Malcolm McClean, Cliff Mills,
Peter Hunt (Mutuo, 2003)
Books and pamphlets
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Game of Two Halves? The Business of Football |
The
Changing Face of the Football Business: Supporters Direct |
Hamil,
Michie, and Oughton (eds)
(out of print)
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Hamil, Michie, Oughton
and Warby (eds)
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Research projects
The Governance
and Regulation of European Football by UEFA
A wide-ranging project funded by the FIFA Joao Havelange Research
Scholarship, examining governance and redulation in a European context.
The
State of the Game: The Corporate Governance of Football Clubs
Annual research sponsored by Grant Thornton, The Professional Footballers'
Association and MUTUO investigating corporate governance within
the football industry.
The
Supporters' Trusts initiative
The FGRC was commissioned by Supporters
Direct, the Government sponsored supporters' trusts initiative,
to provide supportive research and development work for three years
between 2000 and 2003.
The Governance and
Regulation of Professional Football
An ongoing programme of work investigating the governance and regulation
of professional football funded by the British Academy.
Building
Sustainable Supporters' Trusts in the West Midlands
A project designed to assess the training needs of supporters' trusts
in the West Midlands region.
Courses
MSc/MSc
(Res)/MRes/PGDip in Sport Management and the Business of Football
There are a variety of courses based at the Football Governance
Research Centre. PhD students can take options from these degrees
as one of the examinable taught courses.
PhD Studentships and Scholarships are available in the Football
Governance Research Centre. Contact Christine
Oughton for further details.
Papers
Risk,
Governance and Regulatory Issues Facing Professional Football
Professor Christine Oughton (2004) World Sports Law Report,
vol 2, issue 08, August.
The following papers are taken from
the The Game of Two Halves? The Business of Football publication,
edited by Sean Hamil, Jonathan Michie and Christine Oughton.
The following papers are taken from the Football in the Digital
Age: Whose Game is it Anyway? publication, edited by Sean Hamil,
Jonathan Michie, Christine Oughton and Steven Warby
Whose game is it anyway?
Sean Hamil, Jonathan Michie, Christine Oughton and Steven Warby
Football finances: too much money? Gerry
Boon
Reforming football’s boardrooms
Tom Cannon
and Sean Hamil
The players’ perspective
Gordon Taylor
Why football needs a regulator
Rogan Taylor
The attempted takeover
of Manchester United by BSkyB
Peter Crowther
The MMC’s inquiry into BSkyB’s
merger with Manchester United plc
Nicholas Finney
Sneaking in through the back
door? Media company interests
and dual ownership of clubs
Adam Brown
The changing face of
football: a case for national regulation?
John Williams
Tomorrow’s football club:
an inclusive approach to governance
Mark Goyder
Football, fans and fat cats:
whose football club is it anyway?
Kevin Jaquiss
International developments
and European clubs
Andy Walsh
Sport and the law: the influence
of European Union competition
policy on the traditional league structures of European
football
Alasdair Bell
Commercialisation and
fan participation in Germany
Stuart Dykes
The struggle for democracy
at FC Barcelona L'Elefant
Bleu
The financial performance
of football stocks
Nigel Hawkins
Playing in a different league
Tony Dart
Football club balance-sheets:
fact or fantasy?
Lee Manning
Business management issues
Robert Matusiewicz
Achieving best practice
Stephen Morrow
The Restrictive Practices
Court case, broadcasting revenues and league balance
Peter Sloane
Football rights and competition
in broadcasting
Martin Cave
Hearts, minds and the Restrictive
Practices Court case
Stefan Szymanski
The Restrictive Practices
Court case: implications for the
Football League
Richard Scudamore
Partners for progress
Tom Pendry MP
Kick Racism out of Football
Piara Power
The future of football:
safe in whose hands?
Tony Clarke MP
The Football Task Force
and the grass-roots
Chris Heinitz
The Task Force
and the future regulation of football
Andy Burnham
Facing football’s future:
the Task Force and beyond
Nic Coward
The Football Task Force:
a Premier League view
Mike Lee
The Football Task Force
and the ‘regulator debate’
Adam Brown
Why football needs
an independent regulator
Gerry Sutcliffe MP
Uniting the fans
Alison Pilling
Self-regulation or regulation?
Brian Lomax
Submissions
Letters to the OFT regarding the takeover
of Manchester United PLC by Red Football Ltd
Press
Release 'Football governance expert tells OFT that Manchester United
takeover is anti-competitive'
[24th June 2005]
Letter
to Sir John Vickers, Chairman, OFT, from Professor Christine Oughton,
Director, FGRC
[13th June 2005]
Letter
to Mr A Hobbs, OFT, from Professor Jonathan Michie, Visiting Professor
at Birkbeck
and Research Fellow, FGRC
[19th June 2005]
The FA Structural Review: Response
to Lord Burns' Consultation Document
Response
[May 2005]
Submission of Evidence
to DG Competition Regarding the European Commission’s Statement
of Objections over the Joint Selling of Media Rights to Premier
League Matches
Seminar
[17th June 2003]
Submission
Implications of
the White Paper 'Modernising Company Law' for football
Press
release 'White paper could be final whistle for football clubs'
[29 November 2002]
Submission
