The impact of the creation of SASs in the management of football clubs

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Gonçalo Quintas Caldeira Caio
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/28369
• topic: SAS; Balanced financial structure; Sporting success; Stakeholders; SAD; Estrutura financeira equilibrada; Sucesso desportivo

In a context where football has long established itself as the most popular sport in Portugal, with a clear predominance of three clubs (all centenarians), there is no doubt that the creation of SAS – Sports Anonymous Societies, which took place in the late 1990s, marked a clear change in the way football is managed within the clubs. After more than 20 years have passed since the creation of this type of Societies, despite the existence of some literature on the matter, doubts persist about their effectiveness, namely about the effectiveness of the expected benefits, in view of the evolution that has occurred and, above all, of the management models implemented. It is therefore intended, with the performance of this work, to elaborate a reflection on the impacts resulting from the creation of Sports Anonymous Societies in the management of Football Clubs, in the various aspects inherent to their existence, objectives and results. The present work is therefore based on research on the results obtained by the Companies that manage the three biggest clubs in Portugal, focusing on their financial performance, obtaining sports results and also on the relationship they develop with the different stakeholders within the football ecosystem in Portugal. Due to the fundamental role that the management of these Societies assumes, a special focus will naturally be given to the impact of their measures, namely in guaranteeing the financial and sporting sustainability of the clubs, whose reason is fundamentally based on football.