Football Development Index

Rationale, Methodology, and Application

Anatoly Vorobyev, Ilya Solntsev, Nikita Osokin

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Lexington Books
06 December 2017

Sport & leisure industries

This book provides a systematic overview of football development from a scientific perspective. The proposed multidimensional framework of assessing the concept of sports development (with a deliberate emphasis on association football) goes beyond the conventional medal tally counts and win percentages. The conceptual foundation of the Football Development Index (FDI) revolves around the understanding that football development grasps all athletic proficiency levels from grassroots to elite, and includes all football stakeholders. The proposed composite indicator of football development highlights three key dimensions: on-pitch performance, popularity, and development environment. The book provides both a conceptual discussion on football development as well as an overview of the various techniques used for constructing composite indicators. The practical implications of a multidimensional index on football development cover a vast array of fundamental sports economics and management issues such as performance measurement and management, fairness of funding allocation, sports development policy, stakeholder relations, and many others.

While providing concrete guidelines and recommendations, this book also raises some fundamental issues, such as whether socio-economic determinants can affect a nation's sporting performance. Results turn out to be inconclusive, but going further with this notion, the correlations between socio-economic development levels and football development seem to produce more insightful findings, which shed light on more questions than the book has the ability to answer.

The findings of this research may be adopted by FIFA and continental and national federations to objectify decision-making regarding development programs and activities. This book embodies a systematic assessment approach, which can be adapted to fit the needs of any football governing body and which provides an opportunity to benchmark the best global football development practices. The research also contributes to the theoretic development of performance measurement systems in sports and to the widely discussed issue of direct and indirect determinants of football development.

By: Anatoly Vorobyev, Ilya Solntsev, Nikita Osokin
Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 354g
ISBN: 9781498555197
ISBN 10: 1498555195
Pages: 138
Publication Date: 06 December 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nikita Osokin is head analyst of the Center of Strategic Sport Research at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. Ilya Solntsev is director of the Center of Strategic Sport Research at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. Anatoly Vorobyev is head of the Department of Sports Management and Marketing at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.

Reviews for Football Development Index: Rationale, Methodology, and Application

This volume provides a new Football Development Index and tests a model of causal relationships between this Index, on-pitch performance and socio-economic indicators. The results must be appealing to all football fans around the world and should be useful to football governing bodies and decision-makers.--Wladimir Andreff, University Paris 1 Panthï¿½on Sorbonne