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Management role in sports clubs
This article is about the management role in sports clubs, especially association football. For the management role in a cycling team, see
directeur sportif
.
A
sporting director
, or
director of sport
, is an
executive management
position in a
sports club
. The role is well known as a
manager
role for European football clubs, which are sometime also "sports clubs", offering many types of sports. The sporting director is, in many cases, a member of the
executive board
and therefore an executive director.
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The sporting director is usually directly subordinate to the
CEO
or the
chairman
of the sports organisation. The sporting director is in turn typically the manager of the
coaching staff
.
[2]
A
director of football
or
director of soccer
, sometimes also called a sporting director or technical director, is a senior management figure at an
association football (soccer)
club, most commonly in Europe. Often, their key task is managing
transfers
of players to and from the team. However, the nature of the position varies, and their role at a particular club may be more specialised.
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