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National A-team matches: Manchester clubs top the big-5 league table

Scientific Symposium: "Manipulation of sports competitions"

Congratulations to the 34 graduates of Universidad San Martín de Porres 3rd edition's FIFA/CIES Programme  

Asian Football Report launched in collaboration with Aspire

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Why not recruit one of our FIFA Master postgraduates?

Several alumni have organised international sports events in Senegal

Manchester clubs in the top four of transfer expenditure per player fielded

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CIES Highlights No 32, November 2015

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Current Manchester United and Manchester City squad members have played 120 national A-team matches in 2015. This is the record figure at big-5 league level. At third position is Chelsea (111), ahead of Paris St-Germain (106) and Barcelona (99). The full information is presented in issue number 129 of the CIES Football Observatory Big-5 Weekly Post.

Seven out of the 10 top ranked clubs qualified for the Champions League knockout stage. The only exceptions are Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and Inter Milan. The last two clubs did not even participate in the competition. However, the Italian side is currently at the top of the Serie A table.

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CIES (International Centre for Sports Studies) organises a symposium marking 20 years of scientific and academic activities.

The symposium will gather various speakers whose expertise will help to better understand this complex issue as well as to highlight the steps which have already been taken or still need to be introduced to detect and stop manipulations of competitions. This special day will be attended by the following speakers:

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34 students from the 3rd edition of the FIFA/CIES Programme in sport management, which is organised with Universidad San Martín de Porres and the support of the Peruvian Football Federation, have received their diplomas during a heartfelt ceremony last Monday.

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The CIES Football Observatory and Aspire Academy are pleased to disclose the first ever Asian Football Report. Unique of its kind, this publication should improve the knowledge on Asian football around the globe.

The first edition of the Asian Football Report analyses the squad composition of 130 clubs in nine of the best performing Asian leagues. These competitions are systematically compared to ten European championships of different sporting and economic levels.

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