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PtG Comment 03.12.2025
From the gin craze to the gambling craze: lessons from the past for today’s fight against illegal betting
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PtG Article 01.12.2025
Governance expert questions FIFA’s democratic decline and the silence over Saudi 2034
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PtG Comment 27.11.2025
'A daily act of resistance': Afghan women train in secret to challenge gender-based violence through sport
Moroccan national team
PtG Opinion 24.11.2025
Behind the stadium boom: Why foreign-born players fill African football teams
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PtG Comment 21.11.2025
From illusion to integrity: "WADA must confront China's TMZ failures and stop silencing critics"
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PtG Article 21.11.2025
Political pressure on WADA from the US and Europe over stalemate in Chinese swimming case
Layne Vandenberg
PtG Article 13.11.2025
Experts challenge the European Sport Model: "No one knows what it really is"
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PtG Comment 06.11.2025
Whistleblowing from the Afghanistan evacuation: UCI’s repeated history of siding with abusers
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PtG Article 31.10.2025
Researchers push to bring sports trafficking out of the shadows
PtG Comment 25.10.2025
Rwanda: Football and repression
Lindsey Kennedy
PtG Comment 21.10.2025
Scams, slavery and surface-to-air missiles: Online sports betting in Southeast Asia
Nicholas McGeehan
PtG Article 08.10.2025
"FIFA is so badly governed that all we can do is continue to highlight the rottenness"
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Football's multi-club ownership crisis

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FBI raids CONCACAF HQ
PtG Publication March 2025
ClearingSport Concept note: Towards an entity countering crime, corruption and other integrity breaches in sport
FBI clears CONCACAF HQ
PtG Publication March 2025
Towards an entity countering crime, corruption, and other integrity breaches in sport
Bin Salman
PtG Publication December 2024
Saudi Arabia's grip on world sport
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PtG Publication September 2024
Evaluation of Play the Game 2024
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PtG Publication June 2024
European sport: one or several sporting realities?
Books
PtG Publication January 2024
When the silence of sport was broken - Sports politics in the times of Play the Game
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PtG Publication December 2023
Research on the Sports Legacy of Brazilian Stadiums from the 2014 FIFA World Cup
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PtG Publication September 2023
Strengthening Athlete Power in Sport - Final report
PtG Publication June 2023
Strengthening Athlete Power in Sport - A guide to opening new ways in sports governance
FBI raids CONCACAF
PtG Publication June 2023
ClearingSport - Towards an agency countering crime and protecting integrity in world sport
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PtG Publication February 2023
Mapping the sport and climate space
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PtG Publication January 2023
Evaluation of Play the Game 2022 - is there a cure for sport?
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ClearingSport: Towards an entity countering crime, corruption, and other integrity breaches in sport
Mohammed Bin Salman
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Dataset on sports power relations in Saudi Arabia
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National Sports Governance Observer (NSGO)
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Sports Governance Observer (SGO)
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