Routledge Handbook of Football Marketing

Football is big business. The top teams and leagues in world football generate billions of dollars in revenue and serve an audience of billions of fans. This book focuses on the marketing of football as the apex of the contemporary football industry. Drawing upon key theories and concepts in sport marketing, it highlights the critical strategic and operational elements that underpin effective marketing in football clubs around the world.

From the English Premier League to Major League Soccer, this handbook addresses the most important developments in sponsorship, marketing communications, digital marketing strategies, customer relationship management and social media. Written by a team of leading football marketing experts, it presents the latest cutting-edge research in case studies from countries including the UK, US, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, China and Japan.

The only up-to-date book on football marketing written from a truly international perspective, the Routledge Handbook of Football Marketing is an invaluable resource for any researcher or advanced student with an interest in football marketing, as well as all marketers working in the professional football business.

Nicolas Chanavat is Director of the first year of the Sport Management Master’s degree programme at the University of Paris-Saclay, France, and Director of Research Grants for the French Centre for Olympic Studies. He is a specialist in football marketing and mega sporting events and has published several books and scientific articles in these areas. He has worked for professional sport clubs like AS Saint- Etienne, organised mega sporting events (FIFA, IOC, UEFA) and also works as a consultant for the French Soccer Federation and the "Grand Stade" of the Olympique Lyonnais

Michel Desbordes is a sports marketing professor at the University of Paris-Saclay, France, and the academic director of INSEEC Sport business school. He is also an associate professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada and the Shanghai University of Sports, China. He has published 25 reference books in the field of sports marketing, as well as numerous scientific papers. As a media consultant, he is regularly consulted by BFM, France Televisions, Europe 1, Le Monde, and L’Equipe to discuss matters of sports business. Since 2009, he has also been the chief editor of the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship

Nicolas Lorgnier is an associate professor at Canisius College, USA. He has over 10 years’ teaching experience in sport management and has worked with universities in Europe, North America and Asia. He has written over 30 publications including articles in leading sport management and service management journals such as European Sport Management Quarterly and Service Business. He also serves as a reviewer for various scientific journals, such as the Journal of Sport Management, the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, and the Journal of Strategic Marketing

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