An implementation gap in governance regulations in the Polish sports

Hollow promises about improved governance in Polish sports? A summary of the workshop conducted with representatives of the Polish sport sector. The increase in the number of governance-related regulations introduced recently in the Polish sports sector might be perceived as an attempt to challenge the status quo regarding governance in …

The CSR reports of Polish Ekstraklasa and 1 League football clubs in English

Last week, for the first time, we published reports on the CSR of clubs in the top two men’s football leagues in Poland in English. The reports constitute an analysis of about 130 nonbinary indicators describing 26 manifestations of societal responsibility within the three dimensions: society, environment and governance. The …

Evolution in thinking about ESG in football clubs based on the EFDN conference

Last week I had an opportunity to participate in the European Football for Development Network (EFDN) conference hosted by the Legia Foundation in Warsaw, Poland. The EFDN is an organisation with 10 years history of promoting various projects in the field of CSR or ESG in football. It has over …

Societal responsibility of football clubs in Poland – a gap between UEFA expectations and reality

At the declarative level, UEFA is taking consecutive actions to enable it to achieve the goals set out in the 2030 UEFA Football Sustainability Strategy and more recently Strategy 2024-2030 ?????? ??? ???????. Among the key stakeholders in this strategy are national football associations and clubs. To ensure their commitment, …

Clarifying environmental impact to win a business competition

Last month in Warsaw “Foodhaton”, an event focusing on food-related challenges for professionals, under the auspices of EIT Food, took place. The leitmotif of the event was reducing food waste. The event included a start-up competition, won by Algdeha from Turkey, which I had an opportunity to mentor for the …

A meaningful commitment or a façade? – analysing the social responsibility of professional sports clubs in Poland for the second time

In 2017 I analysed local authorities’ (LA’s) investments in the area of sports in Poland. While going through their budgets I got more and more curious about the place of professional sports clubs in this field. In nearly every large city the investments and grants provided for ‘sport for all’ …