FOOTBALL INDUSTRY

Contemporary issue relating to the football industry theory

Table of Contents

Introduction2

Economic Analysis of Football2

Participation Determinants and Social impact2

Early events3

IFAB and the rules of the game4

Development outside the United Kingdom4

FIFA5

Football Hooliganism5

A Brief Historical Overview6

Football Hooliganism as a Global Phenomenon6

British Responses and Strategies7

Legislation7

Policing Strategies8

Contemporary issue relating to the football industry

Introduction

Association of Football has developed rapidly during the past ten years. The number of contemporary issues has skyrocketed. In this context, contemporary issues in Association of Football are so numerous that each conference or book has to cover some tightly focused topics. There were eight of them at the first European Conference in Association of Football held in Paris in September 2009 (Armstrong, Giulianotti, 2001, Pp.123-129).

The history of association football, known simply as football, is cited from 1863, year of foundation of The Football Association, although its origins, like those of other football codes, can be traced several centuries in the past, particularly in the British Isles during the middle Ages. While there were commonalities between different ball games that were developed from the third century C. and the modern game, the sport as we know it today has its origins in the British Isles.

The first codes Britain that gave rise to association football were characterized by poor organization and extreme violence. However, other codes were also less violent and better organized; perhaps one of the best known was the Florentine calcium, team sport very popular in Italy that was affected by the codes of some British schools. The final formation of the football association had its peak during the nineteenth century. In 1848 representatives from different schools, England gathered at the University of Cambridge to create the Cambridge code would function as a basis for creating the rules of modern football. Finally, in 1863 in London, was formalized the first rules of association football (Dunning, Murphy, 2002, pp.45-52).

Since then football has enjoyed steady growth, to become the most popular sport in the world with 270 million people involved. With the completion of the first meeting of the International Football Association Board in 1886 and founding the FIFA in 1904, the sport has expanded to reach all corners of the world. As of 1930 would begin to play the World Cup, which would become the most watched sporting event on the planet.

Economic Analysis of Football

Participation Determinants and Social impact

The economics of sport participation for all in grassroots Football is still in its infancy since it attracts little money per sport participant, which is sometimes an excuse to contend that there is no room for sound economic analysis. This volume provides some evidence that such a view is misleading. On the one hand, there are a number of economic determinants to grassroots Football participation such as whether access to the sport is free or requires an entrance fee in the commercial sport sector; the level of the sport participants' income transportation costs to the sport facility: and subsidies by local authorities and the government to back the development of sport for ...