The FIFA Master is a unique 10-month sport (and not solely football...) Master programme, initiated by FIFA, coordinated by CIES, and taught by three prestigious European universities: De Montfort University (Leicester, UK), SDA Bocconi School of Management (Milan, IT) and Neuchatel University (Neuchatel, CH), in association with the Università della Svizzera italiana.
The Professional Footballer Players Observatory is proud to present the fifth edition of its Annual Review of the European Football Players Market, a bilingual English-French publication. Over the course of one hundred richly illustrated pages, we closely follow the evolution of the demographic characteristics of the players of the big five European leagues: the English Premier League, the Spanish Liga, the Italian Serie A, the German Bundesliga and the French Ligue 1. The attached file presents some of the principle results.
The principle innovation consists of the statistical presentation of individual performances of players in five different areas of the game. This novel addition has been made possible thanks to the collaboration with Opta Sports Data. Our cooperation thus allows us to identify the main factors of success both from the collective perspective of team composition (age, stability, zones of recruitment, etc.), as well as from the point of view of individual footballer performances (recovery, distribution, take on, etc).
Accessible to all despite the wealth of data presented, the publication is aimed at a diverse public: club managers, players’ agents, journalists, researchers and, of course, amateurs of the game. An extract is available as a free download by providing a valid electronic address from the Observatory’s website: http://www.eurofootplayers.org/publications.
The Annual Review is available for €349 plus postage costs from the website of the International Centre for Sports Studies at the following address: http://www.cies.ch/cies-shop/catalog/3. Students can obtain a reduction by writing to eurofootplayers@unine.ch. We are also at the disposal of journalists seeking further information with a view to writing an article.
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L’Observatoire des footballeurs professionnels est fier de présenter la cinquième édition de son Etude annuelle du marché européen des footballeurs, une publication bilingue anglais-français. Cent pages richement illustrées détaillent l’évolution des caractéristiques démographiques des joueurs des cinq principales ligues européennes : Premier League anglaise, Liga espagnole, Serie A italienne, Bundesliga allemande et Ligue 1 française. Le fichier ci-joint présente quelques-uns des principaux résultats.
La grande nouveauté de cette édition réside dans la présentation de statistiques sur les performances individuelles des joueurs dans cinq différents domaines de jeu, une innovation réalisée grâce à la collaboration avec Opta Sports Data. Notre rapport permet ainsi d’identifier les principaux facteurs de succès tant dans la perspective collective de la composition des équipes (âge, stabilité, aires de recrutement, etc.), que du point de vue individuel des prestations des footballeurs (récupération, distribution, percussion, etc.).
Accessible à tous malgré la richesse des données présentées, la publication s’adresse à un vaste public : dirigeants de clubs, responsables de ligues, agents de joueurs, journalistes, chercheurs et simples passionnés du ballon rond. Un extrait est téléchargeable librement depuis le site de l’Observatoire. Il suffit de cliquer sur la page de couverture et indiquer une adresse électronique valable : http://www.eurofootplayers.org/publications.
L’Etude est en vente au prix de 349 euros plus frais d’envoi sur le site du Centre International d’Etude du Sport, à l’adresse : http://www.cies.ch/cies-shop/catalog/3. Les étudiants peuvent obtenir un rabais en écrivant à eurofootplayers@unine.ch. Nous restons en outre à disposition des journalistes désirant obtenir plus d’informations en vue de la rédaction d’un article.
Professional Football Players Observatory (PFPO)
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CIES (International Centre for Sports Studies), located in Neuchatel, is a private Swiss foundation, affiliated with the University of Neuchatel and created in 1995 by FIFA (under the impetus of its current president, Mr. Joseph S. Blatter), the University of Neuchatel, and the City and Canton of Neuchatel.
CIES specialises in three specific domains: law, sociology and economy of sport, with a view to bring together the sporting and the academic worlds. Privileging a pluri-disciplinary approach, CIES provides a wide range of research, education and consultancy services.
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