OBJECTIVES To describe the safety attitudes and beliefs of junior (aged 16-18 years) Australian football players. SETTING Six Victorian Football League Under 18 (VFL U18) clubs in Victoria, Australia. METHODS Cross sectional survey. Altogether 103 players completed a self report questionnaire about their safety beliefs and perceptions of support when injured, across three contexts in which ...

BACKGROUND Mental ill health, especially depression, is recognised as an important health concern, potentially with greater impact in rural communities. This paper reports on a project, Coach the Coach, in which Australian rural football clubs were the setting and football coaches the leaders in providing greater mental health awareness and capacity to support early help seeking behaviour among...

In a questionnaire study of 1,559 English professional footballers, the incidence of cigarette smoking was found to be much lower than the national average. Of those surveyed only 5% admitted to cigarette smoking. Smoking was much lower in First Division Clubs (3.2%), and higher in Fourth Division Clubs (6.9%). It is suggested that these figures could be used in a national campaign to promote n...

The paper aims at analysing Croatian professional sport and the impact of COVID-19 crisis on it. Football was taken as a model for other team sports because share clubs in Republic Croatia football. In addition, legal framework set football may apply to successfully developing similar pattern. analyses are conducted into revenues (sponsorships, ticketing TV rights), expenses (expenses behalf pl...

The task of extracting and constructing knowledge base from news is still a subject of ongoing research. The obtained knowledge base is useful for many applications, such as a question answering system. Football news always gains enormous interest from many football fan clubs. Hence, there are needs to extract certain information from this news in timely fashion. This paper proposes a new appro...

This research has been conducted by the aim of analysis of the relation of inefficient Attitude and social undermining of the employees of football clubs in Kerman. The research method is descriptive-correlative. The statistical population of this research includes all employees of teenage, youth and adult employees of Kerman city in 2017 with the total number of 192 from which 153 replied to t...

This research aims to validate and factor-analyze the Fan Based Brand Equity (FBBE) questionnaire of football in Iranian supreme league clubs. The present research is of descriptive-analysis type and has been done by survey method. The statistic population included football clubs fans of the Iran’s 13th supreme football league, and the sample society was 880 people chosen from seven clubs fans ...

Strategic planning has become indispensable for organisations that seek to develop and grow, grassroots football clubs are no exception. As large amounts of money invested in clubs, these entities may be prone substantial financial risk if resources not effectively deployed, underlining the importance strategic management. Against this background, qualitative study explored processes Gauteng Pr...

On the fringes of Big Five, Swiss football is an emblematic case to be analysed in order understand dynamics professionalisation elite football, between rising performance national team and slow relegation clubs. Given that a club’s depends on its players therefore financial capacity recruit maintain professional workforce, this analysis focuses implementation by institution for (Ligue National...