Spanish football clubs, found guilty of unfair competition, are to repay millions of euros following investigations by the EU Commission.

The 2014 Sochi Winter Games were record breaking on many levels. In this article, Martin Müller from the University of Zürich looks into the costs and the after use of facilities and infrastructure constructed for the most expensive Olympics ever.

With the prospect of runaway expenses, the Japanese government last month pulled the brake and launched a new design contest for Tokyo’s new Olympic stadium. But the debate about who is to blame for the fiasco continues.

Book review: In his new book, economist Andrew Zimbalist analyses the benefits and risks of hosting a sports mega-event and finds that the economic risks by far exeed the benefits.

UEFA's Financial Fair Play-program (FFP) has received significant criticism. In a new paper, one of the architects behind FFP, Swiss professor Egon Franck, argues that the criticism is misguided.

The European Commission has targeted seven major Spanish football clubs including Real Madrid and FC Barcelona over possible illegal state funding.

Switzerland is the centre of international sports organisations, and now a new report from Swiss based research consultancy Rütter+Partner claims that the organisations produce substantial economic effects for the Swiss economy.

Newly published reports on the London Olympics paint a positive picture of the impacts of the Games on the British economy.