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PtG Article 20.01.2026
The hidden cost of hosting: How Philippine taxpayers bankrolled FIVB’s 2025 Men's World Championship
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PtG Article 15.01.2026
The broken whistle: how systemic corruption at SAFA is Killing South African football
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PtG Article 17.12.2025
From Trump’s peace prize to Saudi influence: FIFA’s World Cup draw exposed a far-reaching web of power dynamics
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PtG Article 15.12.2025
Free access book reveals the hard edges behind mega-event soft power
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PtG Article 12.12.2025
FIFA+ livestreams fuel global in-play betting markets for illegal operators
Bjørn Berge
PtG Comment 11.12.2025
Council of Europe: Human rights and the rule of law must be at the centre of sport
Play the Game conference
PtG Article 09.12.2025
Play the Game seeks an editor and international relations manager with a strong interest in international sports politics
Pia Ek
PtG Article 08.12.2025
Finnish minister may face integrity check over her IOC membership
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PtG Article 05.12.2025
Athletes say the anti-doping system is stacked against them and appeal for help
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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
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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
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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
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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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