Sports Management and Marketing

General

Course Contents

  • Introduction and marketing through sports.
  • Market segmentation in sports management.
  • The consumer profile in sports management.
  • Sports Marketing.
  • Marketing sports teams.
  • Marketing of sporting events.
  • Emerging issues in sports marketing.

Educational Goals

The objectives of the course are:

  • To show the use of sports as a marketing tool for other products.
  • To present the marketing of sports products.
  • To present emerging considerations related to both marketing and sports marketing.

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

  • Know the marketing tools (eg survey, segmentation) for sports marketing.
  • know the perspectives of participants and spectators as consumers of sport.
  • Understand marketing mix options for sports products.

General Skills

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Teaching Methods

  • Face to face.

Use of ICT means

  • Online guidance.
  • Slides Projection in the classroom.
  • Use of E-mail and onlne communication systems.
  • Use of e-learning system (moodle).

Teaching Organization

ActivitySemester workload
Lectures39
Assignment(s)31
Personal Study55
Total125

Students Evaluation

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Recommended Bibliography

  1. Sports Marketing, 2nd edition, by Sam Fullerton, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2010. (ISBN-13 978-0-07-338111-4).
  2. Marketing: An Introduction, 8th edition, by Gary Armstrong and Philip Kotler, Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2007.