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The Football Financial Crime Blueprint: Modernising Compliance
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Series: Modernising Compliance, Book 9
SoccerGeneral Political Science
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ISBN13: 9798181100916
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 550
Weight: 2.23
Height: 1.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 550
Weight: 2.23
Height: 1.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Practical Guide to Money Laundering, Fraud, Corruption and Financial Crime Risk in Football Football is no longer simply a sport - It is a multi-billion-dollar global industry moving vast sums of money through player transfers, sponsorship agreements, ownership structures, image rights, betting partnerships, digital assets, intermediaries, and international investment vehicles. Where money moves at scale, financial crime follows. From money laundering and fraud to corruption, sanctions exposure, tax abuse, organised crime infiltration, and opaque ownership arrangements, football has become one of the world's most complex and vulnerable financial ecosystems.
Yet despite the scale of these risks, football remains one of the least understood industries from a financial crime, compliance, and governance perspective. The Football Financial Crime Blueprint provides a practical and comprehensive guide to understanding how financial crime risks emerge across the football ecosystem and what clubs, leagues, investors, regulators, banks, and compliance professionals can do to manage them effectively. Drawing on real-world scandals, governance failures, regulatory actions, and investigative themes, this book examines:
Designed for:
More than a book about football, this is a book about the movement of money, power, influence, and risk inside one of the world's most influential industries. Because the greatest threats to modern football are not always found on the pitch. They are often hidden within the financial systems operating behind the game. Whether you are responsible for protecting a club, managing financial crime risk, conducting investigations, assessing ownership structures, or building effective governance frameworks, The Football Financial Crime Blueprint provides the tools, insights, and practical guidance needed to navigate the rapidly evolving world of football financial crime. Understanding football today means understanding the money behind it.
- Money laundering through football clubs, transfers, and investment structures
- Corruption, bribery, and influence networks across the global game
- Fraud risks involving transfers, sponsorships, intermediaries, and commercial arrangements
- Organised crime and illicit finance exposure within football ecosystems
- Sanctions, beneficial ownership, and offshore structures
- Betting, match manipulation, and integrity threats
- Banking and payment provider challenges when servicing football clients
- Crypto, fan tokens, digital assets, and emerging financial crime risks
- Women's football, youth football, and future integrity challenges
- Practical governance, oversight, and financial crime control frameworks
Designed for:
- Football clubs and executives
- Governing bodies and leagues
- Banks and payment providers
- Investors and sponsors
- Regulators and law enforcement agencies
- Compliance, AML, fraud, risk, and audit professionals
- Sports governance and integrity specialists
More than a book about football, this is a book about the movement of money, power, influence, and risk inside one of the world's most influential industries. Because the greatest threats to modern football are not always found on the pitch. They are often hidden within the financial systems operating behind the game. Whether you are responsible for protecting a club, managing financial crime risk, conducting investigations, assessing ownership structures, or building effective governance frameworks, The Football Financial Crime Blueprint provides the tools, insights, and practical guidance needed to navigate the rapidly evolving world of football financial crime. Understanding football today means understanding the money behind it.
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