ABSTRACT
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, USA, 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|99 pages
Towards a professionalization of the marketing of professional football clubs
chapter 1|51 pages
The Marketing of Football
chapter 3|15 pages
Marketing of Professional Soccer in the United States
chapter 4|11 pages
Fifteen Years of Sport Marketing Revisited
part II|108 pages
Topics related to the marketing of professional clubs
chapter 8|12 pages
Regions and Professional Football Clubs
part III|219 pages
Case studies from Europe’s “Big 5” and emergent professional football leagues