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Most (un)stable teams: last five years

The 411th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post ranks the teams currently playing in 75 leagues around the world according to the number of different…
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02 March 2023

Good Real, bad United?

The 410th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post ranks the teams in 52 leagues around the world according to the current season’s ratio between fouls…
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22 February 2023

CIES publication "Overcoming Frontiers/Limits on Skis" wins ISHA International Award

Winner: Surmonter les frontières à ski - Grenzen überwinden mit Ski (Overcoming Frontiers/Limits on Skis) by Thomas Busset and Peter Engel (Swiss…
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Publication
20 February 2023

World first: player price inflation revealed

The CIES Football Observatory research team is pleased to announce the publication of a ground-breaking report that reveals for the first time the…
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20 February 2023

CIES WEBINAR SEASON 4 – Episode 1 - “The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 as seen from inside”

CIES webinars: Let’s Connect and Think Together

We are delighted to announce details for our opening webinar of Season 4 EP#1 in the CIES series of…


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Seminars and webinars
17 February 2023

Golden factories: top academies worldwide

Issue number 409 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post ranks teams worldwide according to the total estimated transfer value of their youth…
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15 February 2023

FIFA MASTER ALUMNI - WHERE ARE THEY NOW? - SERGE ARNAUD ASSUME ASSUME

Serge Arnaud Assume Assume

Current Position: Competitions Officer at Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF)

Year of graduation: 2020 (20th…


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FIFA Master Alumni
14 February 2023

Net transfer spending per club

The 408th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the net spending (including add-ons) for transfers concluded over the last five seasons by…
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08 February 2023

ENJOYING MILAN!

As the students of the 23rd edition of the FIFA Master complete their first month of the Sport Management module at SDA Bocconi School of Management,…
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07 February 2023
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