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11.02.2016 - (Economic Daily, Vladimir Travnicek) They cut salaries, laid off staff, and had record revenues. Thanks to this, after 10 years, English club Manchester City ended up in the black. Five years ago, English football giant Manchester City recorded a reco...

25.01.2016 - (Economic Daily, Vladimir Travnicek) Revenues of the richest clubs have more than doubled in ten years. The top 20 teams earned €6.6 billion last year. Top football clubs have recorded a record decade in terms of earnings. While in 2006 the annual reven...

20.01.2016 - (Economic Daily, Vladimir Travnicek) English Premier League giants Chelsea FC are enduring their worst season since Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich took over the club. But sitting in 14th place, just four points above the relegation zone, may not be th...

07.01.2016 - (Economic Daily, Vladimir Travnicek) A Premier League Team Has the Best Wage-to-Results Ratio. A Point Costs Them €938,000; Chelsea’s Costs Nearly €6 Million. The Cheapest Points Are in Leicester Out of the 20 football clubs in the world’s richest comp...

22.12.2015 - (Novy Cas, Marián Wallner) This time they should be successful. There have been several attempts to set up a players association since 2004, but no one has survived. A new association representing interests of professional footballm players sh...

22.12.2015 - (Pravda, Michal Zeman) Top-division footballers are preparing to defend and promote their interests. They have decided to set up their own players’ association. There have been several similar attempts over the past more than ten years, but...

22.12.2015 - (Sport, (mar)) A new players’ association is being formed in Slovakia There is no doubt that when court cases over unpaid club bonuses to footballers are currently underway, players also need their own association to protect thei...

08.12.2015 - (Economic Daily, Vladimir Travnicek) The sale of television rights will bring clubs a record 1.5 billion euros a year – twice as much as they have received so far. Spanish football clubs, including giants Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, are experiencing a...

02.12.2015 - (Economic Daily, Vladimir Travnicek) Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has recommended that Russian clubs not travel to Turkey for training camps and has banned them from signing players from there. The shooting down of a Russian fighter jet engaged ...

20.11.2015 - (Sport, (mst)) Do Slovak clubs understand the issue of training compensation? Training compensatios? For some, maybe a novelty, although in reality it is not. And some have no idea they can benefit from this concept. “It is a sys...