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More Market and Less Regulation? Fan Attitudes Toward the Governance of the Russian Premier League

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Reichel, Kristoff ; Sannikov, Ilia ; Brandt, Christian ; Kurscheidt, Markus:
More Market and Less Regulation? Fan Attitudes Toward the Governance of the Russian Premier League.
In: IJSF : International Journal of Sport Finance. Vol. 19 (2024) Issue 4 . - pp. 208-226.
ISSN 1930-076X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32731/IJSF/194.112024.02

Abstract in another language

Russian football is currently excluded from international competitions as a political sanction due to the military conflict. Despite this, matches in the national football leagues are continuing, and fans still attend professional football matches in the Russian Premier League (RPL). As fans’ attitudes toward aspects of Russian football governance are largely unexplored, the question arises how fans evaluate the governance of the Russian Premier League. Therefore, this article presents evidence from the first large survey of RPL supporters (N = 4,090) with a focus on consumer culture and requests for reforms of the RPL. The regression results reveal an attitudinal pattern toward the governance of the RPL in line with recent findings on Chinese football fans, which may be characterized as a post-socialist fan culture restricted by an authoritarian league governance. Hence, unlike European fans, Russian supporters associate more consumer sovereignty with commercialization because they mistrust the politicization of the RPL.

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Item Type: Article in a journal
Refereed: Yes
Keywords: Football; Russia; Commercialization; Consumer culture; Governance; Post-socialist studies; Soccer; Stakeholder; Supporters
Institutions of the University: Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Department of Sport Science > Chair Sport Science II - Sport Governance and Event Management
Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Department of Sport Science > Chair Sport Science II - Sport Governance and Event Management > Chair Sport Science II - Sport Governance and Event Management - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Markus Kurscheidt
Research Institutions > Central research institutes > Bayreuth Center of Sport Science (BaySpo)
Faculties
Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies
Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Department of Sport Science
Research Institutions
Research Institutions > Central research institutes
Result of work at the UBT: Yes
DDC Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology
700 Arts and recreation > 790 Sports, games, entertainment
Date Deposited: 28 Nov 2024 06:41
Last Modified: 20 Feb 2025 09:29
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/91271