SEE countries for the Integrity of football clubs

The SEE- I project intends to open a new focus on sport integrity and governance, dedicated to the level of professional and semi-professional football clubs. Considering the exploratory, multidisciplinary and complex nature of the subject, the project will focus on a small number of countries in south-east Europe (Romania, Bulgaria and Greece). The project brings together academic partners (National University of Physical Education and Sports, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, The National Sports Academy of Sofia, Institute International Strategic Relations) who, together with sports organizations (Romanian Football Federation; Play Fair Code, FAIR PLAY CODE HELLAS), will address the following main objectives : to improve the evidence base relating to football clubs’integrity in the SEE countries through the voices of key actors in football (managers, coaches and players); to establish a sustainable transnational network of integrity of football clubs expertise in Europe and in the SEE region; to develop a model for the education and training of key actors in a football club; to develop the skills of about 100 football managers, 100 coaches and 100 football players in the SEE countries; to improve the sharing of knowledge, experience and good practice on the integrity of football clubs in Europe in general and SEE countries in particular. The intellectual outputs produced by the project will be a SEE-I Study Report “Regional trends in the promotion of football clubs’integrity in SEE“ that will include the findings of a qualitative and quantitative research that will involve 500 participants in total from Romania, Bulgaria and Greece (managers, coaches and football players) and a SEE-I Tools Kit with educational materials for each of the topics addressed by this project - Match-Fixing, Substance use, Sport ethics, Sports betting and corruption.