Published on 6 August 2025

Sports systems

The Sports Systems expert group is responsible for the strategic and operative management and funding of national and international sports promotion. The group analyses interdisciplinary aspects of national and international sports systems, focusing on specific features of various stakeholders, including organisation, legal structure, material and formal objectives as well as funding. The group analyses how stakeholders interact within sport s systems and funding programmes, and looks at how sports promotion in Switzerland compares with that of other countries.

Publications and Services

Courses

Research methods in sports economics
Sports management
Resources management
Project management
Introduction to macroeconomics
National promotion policies and programmes
International elite sports policy
CAS EHSM Strategic and Sustainable Development of Sport s Disciplines (SNS)

Research

Analyses of the Swiss sports promotion system over time
International comparative and benchmark analyses of selected areas of the promotion system for competitive sport
Strategic positioning of countries in individual sports
Market analyses of competition for Olympic medals
Promotion of female athletes in the Swiss sports system
Leadership in sports systems
Using (research) data for evidence-based decision making

Services

2017: Report and workshops ‹Saas-Grund Sports and Adventure Hall› (Saas-Grund Communal Council)
2020: Report and workshops ‹Concept for Positioning Snow Sports in the Goms-Aletsch Region› (RW Upper Valais)
2020: Report and workshops ‹Strategic Audit of the Malbun Sports and Congress Centre› (Liechtenstein Olympic Committee)
2020: Report and workshop ‹Sport Economy 5.0 – The Opportunities and Challenges of the COVID-19 Crisis for Sport› (Swiss Olympic and FOSPO)
2021: Report and workshops ‹Swiss Olympia Centre› (Swiss Olympic)

Staff

Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen SFISM

Sports economics and management
Hauptstrasse 247
2532 Magglingen