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Summary
Saetak
Introduction
Uvod
In the first half of the 20th century sports had stopped being
just fun and recreation thus becoming a real job and a
social phenomenon. The evolution of sport has brought some
positive changes in society while supporting the whole
process of developing a country. Todays leading sports clubs
in the world are de facto successful companies which raise
a big profit on the market of the sports services, merchandise
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and capital, and athletes are global celebrities, just like actors
and singers. The modern sport is characterised by a high
level of professionalisation of clubs and competitions, the
growing income and the strongly profiled trend of corporative governance and management (Cadbury Committee
Report, 1992)1. In the last hundred years the sport has gone
a long way from a game and fun into an industrial branch,
and the clubs have gone a long way from informal asociations, based on the enthusiasm of their participants, to
companies on a global scale. A mere fun in the beginning,
competitions have turned to spectacle, to highly commercial
world-wide events in which almost every country in the
world participates. Once upon a time the participants themselves used to finance sports activities, and then it was the
viewers, and today the sole income of commercial and TV
rights is expressed in millions of euros. In the document The
EU & Sport Matching Expectations the European Commision states that about 60% of the EU citizens (about 270.000.000
people) is engaged in sport activities, whether as professionals or amateurs. In this very moment there are 70.000.000
athletes competing and around 10,000,000 volunteers
helping in 700.000 sport clubs across Europe. On the economic level the European Commision has assesed that sport
has created around 400.000.000.000 euros in Europe or
3.7 % of the GNP (Gross National Product) of the EU, providing job for 5.4% of the labor force (Structured dialogue
with sports organisations, 2012).
Despite the fact that it has overgrown its former role of fun
and recreation and become a significant support to the social
and economy development of a country, sport has mostly
been based on limited financials which represents the greatest barrier to the existance, growth and development of the
sport clubs. This barrier raises an issue on whether sport
clubs should exist as associations or legal person (limited
liability companies or joint-stock companies). This transformation has set a new chalenge while organising the form of
a club: make it an association or an economy company for
sport (Theiri, Medabesh, & Ati, 2012).
The goal of this paper is to asses the importance, new
abilities and the effects of listing professional sport clubs on
the stock exchange in order to gain money to finance and
develop the clubs.
globalne zvijezde. Savremeni sport karakteri{e visoka profesionalizacija klubova i takmienja, sve vei rast prihoda i
sve izraeniji trend korporativnog organizovanja i upravljanja (Cadbury Committee Report, 1992)1. Tokom posljednjih stotinu godina sport je od igre i zabave postao industrijska grana, a klubovi su od neformalnih udruenja, koja su
se zasnivala na entizujazmu uesnika, dospjeli do kompanija globalnih razmjera. Takmienja su od puke zabave,
preko spektakla, stigla do visokokomercijalnih planetarnih
dogaaja u kojima uestvuju gotovo sve drave svijeta.
Sportske aktivnosti su nekada finansirali sami uesnici, potom
gledaoci, a danas se samo prihodi od prodaje komercijalnih
i TV prava izraavaju u milijardama evra. Evropska komisija
u dokumentu The EU & Sport Matching Expetations konstatuje da se oko 60% graana EU (oko 270 miliona
stanovnika) profesionalno ili amaterski bavi sportom. Trenutno se u 700.000 sportskih klubova Evrope takmii 70
miliona sportista i angauje oko 10 miliona volontera. Na
ekonomskom planu, Evropska komisija procjenjuje da u
Evropi sport stvara oko 400 milijardi evra ili 3,7 odsto BNP
(bruto nacionalnog proizvoda) Evropske Unije i zapo{ljava
5,4 odsto radne snage (Structured dialogue with sports
organisations, 2012).
Uprkos injenici da je prerastao nivo zabave i rekreacije i
postao znaajan podsticaj dru{tvenom i privrednom razvoju zemlje, sport se uglavnom bazira na ograniena finansijska sredstva {to predstvalja najveu barijeru postojanju,
rastu i razvoju sportskih klubova. Ova barijera otvara dilemu
da li sportski klubovi treba da funkcioni{u kao udruenja ili
pravna lica (dru{tva sa ogranienom odgovorno{u ili akcionarska dru{tva). Ova transformacija postavlja novi izazov u
vidu organizovanja forme kluba: udruenja ili sportskog
privrednog dru{tva (Theiri, Medabesh i Ati, 2012).
Cilj ovog rada je da ocijenimo vanost, mogunosti i efekte
listiranja profesionalnih sportskih klubova na berzu s ciljem
obezbjeivanja novca za finansiranje i razvoj klubova.
Ownership in professional
clubs in the world
Vlasni{tvo u profesionalnim
sportskim klubovima u svijetu
U sportu je svako ostvarenje velikih zarada uslovljeno postizanjem vrhunskih rezultata (Boovi, 2008). Razvoj profesionalizma, a prije svega rast prihoda koje ostvaruju klubovi
i sportisti, doveo je do sve izraenijeg korporativnog organizovanja. Najuspje{niji klubovi dana{njice organizovani su
i posluju kao privatne profitne organizacije. Znaajan kapital koji se u klubove ulae podlijee tri{nim zakonima koji
vae za bilo koju drugu privrednu djelatnost. Ovakav nain
poslovanja sportskih organizacija karakteristian je prije
svega za klubove u SAD i u Evropi. Motivi onih koji ulau u
te klubove su, prije svega, profitni. Meutim, nerijetko se u
sportski klub ulae zarad popravljanja ili sticanja imida,
reklame, dru{tvene afirmacije i statusa. Takoe, jedan od
motiva je i oslobaanje od poreza na ulaganja kapitala u
sport. Naime, drave poreskim politikama ne predviaju
posebne stimulacije da privrednici ulau u sport, ali kompanije koje investiraju u klubove su osloboene plaanja
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one part of the tax2, and the only thing taxed is capital gain
if any trade of shares should take place.
According to the american model, professional clubs are
organised as companies. When they meet certain requirements, via taking place in a competition they become a part
of the holding system of professional leagues, which also
act as stakeholders in the very same clubs. Such model is
characterized by a cartel behavior while forming the price
of a ticket and distribution of income, but also by a high
professionalism, quality and uncertain competition, all that
with a purpose to gain profit ([urbatovi, 2012).
Sport, and especially football, has become a very important
industry in Great Britain. The Premier League and the Football League Championship form a group of commercial
competitions which achieve the greatest income. Massive
corporations, such as Reebok, Adidas and Umbro are important sponsors, TV rights are sold in advance for billions
of pounds, and the football players wages simply skyrocket.
In order to perform the best they can, the clubs have introduced professional marketing advertising and invested on a
large scale in big arenas, and a considerable number of clubs
have been listed on an exchange. The pioneer of this process
was Tottenham Hotspur back in1983. During the 1996-97
season the wave of initial public offerings3 by the football
clubs resulted in a successful introduction of eight clubs on
the official list of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and four
clubs on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) (Renneboog
& Vanbrabant, 2009). As a result, there are nineteen English
and Scottish clubs on the exchange right now (11 of them
on LSE, 7 on AIM and 1 on NYSE).
Formal and legal status of the biggest clubs in the Western
Europe depends on specific legislatives of certain states , but
the common characteristic of the biggest is to work and
operate as a business entity ([urbatovi, 2012). Such form
connotes that clubs lead business books, tend to increase
profit and have their business subject to regular controls from
auditors, inspections and banks.
The French model of turning clubs from private companies
to corporations from 1984 is the best evidence that there is
no ideal model of transformation, organization and operating of clubs, and that all laws of a state must be taken into
account before making any changes. The goal of the reorganization was to get French clubs somewhat closer to a
British model. After two years only two clubs were reformed
they became city clubs. Such an (un)expected chain of
events has led to the pass of the new Law which was a lot
more liberal and did not imply the unconditional form of
status. Today, there are more different models in France.
The best French football clubs are successful firms, and Ligue
is among the top five in Europe according to realized income
and profit. For example, Lyon4 rates on exchange as a jointstock company , Monaco is a private club owned by the
famous Ranieri family, Nice is held by three shareholders,
Lens is owned by a town, Sochaux is held by Peugeot, the
car factory, while Olympique de Marseille has recently been
sold to an owner for 115.000.000 euros.
The Spanish model adopted in 1999 has enabled reforming
of 68 football and 32 basketball clubs. The exceptions are
Barcelona, Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao and Osasuna which
being clubs of extreme importance should operate in a
different system. Primarily because of the historical, cul-
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Financing of professional
sports clubs
Finansiranje profesionalnih
sportskih klubova
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The clubs which did not have any important success in the
past have a strong drive to use the strategy of increasing sport
performance in order to satisfy the wishes and expectations
of their fans, while the clubs with grand tradition and past
can use their past glory to ease the current results. On the
base of mathematical models, the authors spotted the following:
Interesantno zapaanje pomenutog istraivanja je da industrijska grana iz koje dolazi predsjednik ima znaajan uticaj
na izbor strategije voenja kluba. Uspje{ni ljudi iz biznisa
su naklonjeniji strategiji poveanja performansi zbog jakog
uticaja imida sporta kao dru{tveno prihvatljive i poeljne
aktivnosti. Bez sumnje, generalni zakljuak njihovog istraivanja
je da su klubovi mnogo blii strategiji poveanja sportskih
performansi nego profita.
Prednosti i nedostaci
listiranja na berzi
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It is not an easy process to list a sports club. The club, operating as a joint-stock company, chooses a so-called issuing
agent before the initial public offering takes place. The issuing agent is usually a brokerage or investment bank, with
the purpose to promote investing into the clubs shares to
investors. The very beginning of the process of IPO is preceded by the consulting the owner has with the agent or
underwriter of emission. They negotiate the structure of the
offering which will be sent to investors, in order to assess the
size of capital, namely the anticipated ownership structure
after the IPO. Also, the way of determining the price (starting price, fixed price or price bracket) in the public offering
is negotiated. Together, the owners of the company and the
issuing agent analyze how much money they want to raise,
which investments will be financed and whether the current
owners want to sell a part of their shares as well, on top of
the emission of new shares. The issuing agent prepares an
independent overview on the state the company is in (due
diligence), and informs the company management about
improvement and implementation of the best praxis in
corporative management.
During preliminary meetings with potential investors when
the IPO is being promoted, the club managers answer to the
questions investors have about the company strategy, competition, level of management quality, financial indicators,
etc. It often happens that banks which lead the process of
the initial public offering form a consortium bank. For example, Jefferies (Makan, 2012a), the investment bank, had
the final word while organizing IPO. This bank was at the
head of the group of banks which were guiding the whole
process of going public (the group was constituted of the
following banks: Credit Suisse, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of
America Merrill Lynch and Deutche Bank) (Makan, 2012b;
Oran & Lacey, 2012).
A preliminary prospect is often constructed due to the uncertainty in the number and price of the shares which are
going to be emitted. That document contains all the data
about history and plans of the club (suppliers, legal issues,
marketing, the growth rate), information about the management (previous results, biography, financial indicators,
revised financial reports, information on possible risks, etc.
The preliminary prospect does not specify the exact sum of
the capital needed. The exact sum is revealed only after the
pulse of market has been felt, that is, after it is discovered
how interested in the company shares the investors really
are.
The prospect, including the statement that it contains correct
information and no relevant data has been omitted, is signed
by the club management. After the preparation, it is delivered
to the authorizing institution, the Securities Commission, to
be approved. The Commission approves the prospect or
sends it back to be amended in the statutory term.
Even in well-developed economic systems the process of
IPO lasts several months, and, since it is often dealt with big
sums, it is not unlikely that the investment bank or brokerage
which is the underwriter of the emission makes a commitment to buy off all the shares that stay unsold in the process
of public offering of shares. Sometimes the underwriter of
the emission buys all the shares from the public offering, and
sells them later earning his profit on the base of the difference in value.
How important an issuing agent really is in the whole process
is best shown in the case of Manchester United back on
exchange12. Even though they planned the initial public
After nearly seven years since the American Glaser family bought
Manchester United for about 800 million euros, while shelter
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Club's operating
after going public
Funkcionisanje kluba
nakon izlaska na berzu
Stanje i mogunost(i)
ulaganja kod nas
The biggest problem (and the main reason for our current
situation) in local sport is the fact that our sport clubs are
organized as associations of citizens (Zakon o sportu, 2002),
while, in most clubs, it is not obvious who the associated
citizens are, in other words, who the club members are and
how they deal with the rights and obligations that the membership gives them. For a while now the general public has
been aware of the fact that local sport clubs work with great
loss, and it is not news when a club, even the ones representing our biggest brands (Banjaluka pivara), has its operating
account blocked. Because of undefined ownership and
management structures in sport clubs a number of significant
investments in sport have been lost, since no one wants to
invest into something that does not belong to them, or be
in a situation where they cannot control the funds they have
invested.
So, majority of our clubs does not have a defined structure
of ownership, or management, which is under no circumstances something to prompt any at least bit serious sponsor,
patron so to say, to invest money into a club, despite the
fact that, from time to time, there is an impressive result
(elimination in the first stage of qualification for Euopean
competitions) or occasional costly transfer.
So far the operating of the sport clubs has been based on
the finance from social companies, who have often had
monopoly over a certain sector, or from the funds of sparse
entrepeneurs, which would invest a part of their profit in
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Ova vrsta finansiranja ukljuuje prodaju raznih proizvoda i predmeti poput majica, dresova, lopti i sline sportske opreme.
are given over to the market, the myths about the value and
significance simply perish. And, if it is ok for Milan and Inter,
Roma and Lazio, Juventus and Torino to share a stadium,
than our clubs as well can share or rent sport arenas. The
praxis has shown that people who earn, not get, the money
invest the same money, and demand lower expenses on
cleaning and stationery, because they assume that the big
expenses have been cut down a long time ago.
The club will gladly accept the money of taxpayers in the
form of the government help. However, if the clubs struggle
to accomplish the plan, although they are financed by the
public companies and the state (taxpayers), the problem is
in the management or in the debts made by the former
management. In that case, together with revision of income,
expenditure and decisions, there should also be the revision
of ambitions of such clubs, since they have become spoiled,
and used to constant help.
klubova tri{tu mitovi o vrijednosti i znaaju mnogih klubova - propali. Isto tako, ako Milan i Inter, Roma i Lacio, Juventus i Torino... mogu da dijele stadion onda i na{i
klubovi mogu da dijele ili iznajmljuju sportska borili{ta.
Praksa je pokazala da onaj ulae novac koji je zaradio, a ne
dobio, na sjednici skup{tine akcionara zahtijeva manje
tro{kove i{enja i kancelarijskog materijala jer pretpostavlja da su veliki tro{kovi odavno srezani.
Klub e rado prihvatiti novac od poreskih obveznika u vidu
pomoi vlade. Meutim, ako je klubovima malo to {to ih
finansiraju javna preduzea i drava (poreski obveznici) da
ostvare plan, problem je u upravljanju ili dugovanjima koje
je napravila prethodna uprava. U tom sluaju, osim revizije
prihoda, rashoda i odluka, neophodna je i revizija ambicija
takvih klubova, jer su, naviknuti na stalnu pomo, postali
razmaeni.
Conclusion
Zakljuak
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