When London won the right to host the 2012 Olympics, Sebastian Coe, Chairman of the London Organising Committee, promised that the Olympics’ legacy would be to change the face of British sport and inspire two million Britons to become more active – a promise that was later cut down to one million. With little more than 50 days to go until the event, spending cuts and declining numbers for youth participation in sport paints a picture of a legacy goal set to fail.

University College of Northern Denmark will host the annual conference of the European Association for Sport Management (EASM) in Aalborg, Denmark, on 18-21 September 2012 in partnership with Play the Game/Danish Institute for Sports Studies.

Comprehensive studies prove a wide variety of beneficial effects of playing football. A future challenge is to make the game accessible to new groups of potential players.

New report from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) investigates racism, ethnic discrimination and the exclusion of migrants and minorities in sport across the European Union.

A group of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are calling for greater attention on funding of grassroots sports, as the European Commission prepares to draft its first ever proposal of an EU sports programme in November.

A record six men's teams have entered next month’s Viva World Cup (VWC) for international teams not affiliated to FIFA.

This article is a resume of a study carried out by Amnyos Group for the French Ministry of Sport. It provides an overview of the structure of sports financing in EU and recommendations in regards to securing the financing of sport in Europe.