CIES News
Most fielded young players: the top 10s per position
The 204th edition of the CIES Football Observatory lists the 10 most fielded footballers per position born in or after 1997 in both the big-5 leagues…
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Defensive impermeability: who can beat Manchester City?
Issue number 203 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post analyses data provided by InStat to highlight the 100 clubs from 35 European…
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Research, Regulation and Development – a three-pronged approach for African football?
Picture from left to right: Youssef Rabeh and Walid Azaro
CIES Researcher, Dr Kevin Tallec Marston, recently published an article on African club…
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Sport: The invention that is so British
Modern sport is not a common trait of humanity - an ongoing anthropological constant - , but is rather a fact of history or, to put it better, a…
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FIFA Master 18th Edition: Chapter 1 Leicester
After giving countless self-introductions in the first few weeks and learning about the heritage and history of sport, we knew we were embarking on a…
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Success for Violet Jubane, an alumna from Nelson Mandela University
Violet Jubane, an alumna from the FIFA/CIES Executive Programme in Sports Management organised in partnership with Nelson Mandela University (South…
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FIFA Master Alumni – Where are they now? – Ami Otaki
Ami Otaki
Current Position: Professional Football Player – Paris FC Féminines
Year of graduation: 2017 (17th edition)
Nationality: Japanese
What…
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Transfer values per club: four potential billionaires
Issue number 202 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post ranks big-5 league teams according to the estimated transfer value of their players. The…
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New study reveals growing instability in European football
Since 2009, the CIES Football Observatory has monitored the evolution of the demographics of players in 31 European top division leagues. The 2017…
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