Sebahattin Devecioğlu
The Impact of Technology on The Future of Winter Sports, in times of COVID
A new independent Delphi study of 53 winter sports experts*, entitled ‘The Impact of Technology on The Future of Winter Sports, in times of COVID’, commissioned by Mastercard, and led by Prof. Dr. Sascha L. Schmidt from WHU Centre for Sports and management has found that COVID-19 is set to accelerate the winter sports industry into a technological revolution by 2025.
Data has highlighted that globally, digitalisation has been catapulted forwards with 5-years’ worth of adoption happening within an eight-week period. This is being reflected within the winter sports industry, as experts predict that COVID-19 will accelerate digital growth.
The change in tactics for the industry is surprising as historically, technology and skiing have had a tumultuous relationship as people look to the slopes for a ‘closer to nature’ experience. By 2025, however, experts predict that the pandemic will have a major impact on three key areas of technology; training, preparation and recovery decisions for athletes (54%), general convenience for skiers including holidaymakers (56%) and optimisation of ski lift technology to minimize the spread of viruses (41%)
Global Transfer Market Report 2020
FIFA has today published the 2020 edition of the FIFA Global Transfer Market Report, which charts the transfers of professional men’s and women’s players.
For the first time, the report also includes the transfers of amateur footballers worldwide. Thanks to changes to the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players (RSTP) and enhancements to the Transfer Matching System (TMS), since July 2020 FIFA has also been able to process and facilitate transfers of amateurs in TMS. During the first six months of implementation, some 17,382 amateur players switched clubs.
The Top 25 Most Innovative Teams in the World 2021
Known for its forward-thinking research and market intelligence, Sports Innovation Lab today released its proprietary list of The Top 25 Most Innovative Teams in the World. The list is part of Sports Innovation Lab’s latest report, in which the global sports research firm recounts the unprecedented challenges for the sports and entertainment industry, uses a data-driven methodology to generate the list of top teams, and outlines the path forward. The list features teams across several global football leagues, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, and Major League Baseball.
Artificial Intelligence Impact on the Future of Sports
Artificial Intelligence is disrupting the sports industry at a tremendous pace and it’s just the beginning. The estimated size of the Global sports industry is $1.2 Trillion and is increasing very rapidly with more millennials consuming sports. It is said that post Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) era, entertainment is set to be the biggest industry on the Earth and sports will have a major contribution to it. During the AGI era, the majority of human tasks will be replaced by AI and humans will have nothing much to do and hence will be mostly engaged in entertainment activities like sports, e-sports, gaming and other forms of entertainment.
Let’s explore AI impact on the Sports industry:
EURO on OR in Sports : Sports Economics
31st European Conference on Operational Research – EURO 2021
“EURO stream on OR in Sports”
“Sports Economics”
11-14 July 2021 in Athens, Greece
https://euro2021athens.com
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the “OR in sports” stream:
Session on “SPORTS ECONOMICS”
This session provides researchers with an opportunity to present theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented research on with a quantitative/analytic component: Sports Economics, Sports Finance, Sports Marketing, Sports Sponsorship, Sports Tax, Sports Math, Sports Industry, Sports Sector, Sports Technolgy, …
You can do this by going to the abstract submission page
https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro31
and use the following invitation code: ac3a23a2
(The Conference is international and purely English spoken)
(Abstracts are 1,500 characters at most)
The deadline for abstract submission is February 28, 2021
The author registration deadline is May 16
Contributions to the OR in Sports stream that do not cover sports economics can be submitted to the abstract submission page using the following invitation code: 09d2f244
Please feel free to distribute this invitation to other researchers you think may have an interesting story to present at EURO on OR in Sports
COVID-19: Time for Sport to ‘Build Back Better’
World Players Association sets guiding principles to support the recovery and rebuilding of the global sport industry
(Nyon, Switzerland, 14 October 2020) – The World Players Association today launched six key principles to guide the global sport industry in the herculean task of recovering and rebuilding from the COVID-19 pandemic. The multi-billion-dollar industry – which accounts for up to one percent of global gross domestic product – has been acutely impacted by the crisis due to the widespread restrictions on mass gatherings and the closure of international and domestic borders.
Since being initially shut down in February 2020, the global sport industry has understood that it must lead by example given that COVID-19 is, first and foremost, a public health crisis. Sports bodies, leagues and player associations have worked closely with governments to negotiate incredibly complex health and economic protocols and agreements that have enabled professional leagues of wide-ranging scale to return to play. The pandemic has also revealed underlying vulnerabilities in the economy of professional sport, including low levels of liquidity despite almost three decades of unprecedented growth.
The economic impact of Covid19 on the sport sector in the Europe
Mapping study on measuring the economic impact of COVID-19 on the sport sector in the EU
Study on the economic impact of #Covid19 on the #sport sector in the EUROPE to support evidence-based policy making and help the sport & public sector coping with the socio-economic impact of the current pandemic on our sport industry:
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The Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) of the European Commission commissioned Ecorys in June 2020, together with SportsEconAustria (SpEA), to undertake a mapping study on measuring the economic impact of COVID-19 on the sport sector in the European Union (EU). The key aims of this study were to support evidence-based policy making at both national and EU level,
and to help the sport and public sector tackle and mitigate the socio-economic consequences of the pandemic on the sport industry.
Want to know what’s driving the broadcasting world of sport?
Want to know what’s driving the broadcasting world of sport?
Join us live at #SPOTT20 to hear:
@dazngroup’s global launch
@amazon’s approach to rights acquisition
5 yr predictions from @NBCSports & @beINMEDIAGROUP
– @WWE & their D2C platform
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The First Annual Eurasian Sport Industry Conference 2020
As an industrial pacesetter, emlyon business school has joined hands with China’s top sport academy—Beijing Sport University to launch the First Annual Eurasian Sport Industry Conference -A New Frontier，- The Business and Management of Sport in Eurasia, which will be held between December 8 and 9, 2020 in Beijing.
Eurasia, which hosts important economies such as China, India, Saudi Arabia, France, and the UK, is home to 75% of the world’s population. It is not only a market with strong economic growth, a major investor in the global sports industry, the hosts of important international sports events, but also a lowland of value with the highest potential.
Therefore, with its topics focusing on the Eurasian sports industry, the Eurasian Sport Industry Conference will invite experts and scholars from all over the world to help you develop an In-depth knowledge of the market structure and business prospects of sports industry in Eurasia from multi-dimensional perspectives of sports, business, management, among many others. Date: 2020.12.8-9 Zoom Webinar Language: Chinese / English
Special purpose acquisition companies: are football clubs going (back) to the stock market?
Stock markets this year, most notably in the U.S., have been boosted by the return of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) as a popular means to fundraise public M&A and bring private companies onto the public markets. Having seen an uptick in fundraising by SPACs since 2017, previous records have been shattered in 2020 as more than $36 billion[1] had been raised on Wall Street as of mid-September. This comes at a time when football clubs and leagues are looking for investors and financiers to help steer their balance sheets through the Covid-19 pandemic[2]. It is no longer only high-net-worth individuals and private equity funds[3] looking to invest in football[4].
This article reviews the trend, examining:
What is a SPAC?
Which rules and regulations apply to acquisitions?
How does this apply to football clubs?
Current activity in the market
