Top 20 Governing Bodies - The Most Attractive Employers in Sport 2023

Today we present the eighth of eleven categories in The Most Attractive Employers in Sport survey results - the Top 20 Most Attractive Governing Bodies.

The list includes a mix of national, continental and international governing bodies across a wide variety of sports. Arguably the three biggest and most esteemed sports governing bodies - the IOC, FIFA and UEFA - all appear on the list. You can also find the other major continental football governing bodies for South America, North and Central America, Africa and Asia. Governing the fast-growing sport, both in popularity and value, of cricket, the International Cricket Council also appears on the list. The national governing bodies of football from Germany, France, Italy, England and Spain all have a place in the Top 20, and traditionally strong and well-recognized international governing bodies World Athletics (formerly IAAF), UCI (cycling) and Volleybally World (FIVB) also appear.

The list is the result of a study conducted by iWorkinSport, which surveyed more than 1,500 people from all continents, with the majority already working in sport, and asked them a simple question: “If you could choose to work anywhere in sport, where would that be?”?

At first, the respondents chose organisations divided into ten categories and, at the end, they indicated one single preferred choice, overall – the “Employer of their Dreams”.?

The final rankings of the iWorkinSport Most Attractive Employers 2023 will be announced at an Awards ceremony at the Olympic Museum, in Lausanne, on June 1st, at a VIP dinner offered to recruiters and academic partners of the iWorkinSport Job Fair, which will take place the following day in Lausanne.?

In the category Sporting Goods Brands, the 20 most voted brands were, in alphabetical order:

Asian Football Confederation (AFC) (Football, Asia)

Confederation Africaine de Football (CAF) (Football, Africa)

CONCACAF (Football, North and Central America)

CONMEBOL (Football, South America)

DFB (Football, GER)

FFF - Fédération Fran?aise de Football (Football, FRA)

FIA – Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (Motor Sports, global)

FIBA (Basketball, global)

FIFA (Football, global)

FIGC - Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (Football, ITA)

Fédération Internationale de Volleyball - FIVB / Volleyball World (Volleyball, global)

International Cricket Council (Cricket, global)

International Olympic Committee – IOC (Olympics, global)

International Tennis Federation (Tennis, global)

Real Federación Espa?ola de Fútbol (Football, ESP)

The Football Association (Football, ENG)

Union Cycliste Internationale (Cycling, global)

UEFA (Football, Europe)

World Athletics (Athletics, global)

World Rugby (Rugby Union, global)

The iWorkinSport Most Attractive Employers in Sport 2023 Report will be released shortly after the awards ceremony. The report will also feature insightful sports job market trends analysis and interviews.

Over the coming weeks, the shortlists in each category will be announced. To find out which companies are shortlisted, follow iWorkinSport’s professional and social media channels: LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and iworkinsport.com.?

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More about The Most Attractive Employers in Sport 2023

The survey was conducted from 16 January to 17 March 2023 and had more than 1,500 respondents, from 73 countries, with 95% having at least a bachelor degree and 61% with postgraduate education, while 78% already work in sport. Detailed demographics data will be available in the report.

About iWorkinSport

iWorkinSport is the Global Hub for everything on career, recruitment and education in sport.

The company connects and provides solutions and opportunities to all stakeholders in the field of career development in sport - be it candidates, employers, employees, students, academic programmes, HR professionals, recruitment agencies, consultants, career coaches, etc. It also produces, aggregates and curates content and knowledge relevant to careers in sport.

iWorkinSport was created in 2017 with the aim to organise the first truly international career fair focused on the sports industry. It enables some of the most renowned organisations to meet, interview and recruit students and alumni from the most prestigious sport management programmes in the world.??

World-class sports organisations such as the International Olympic Committee (IOC), FIFA, UEFA, FIBA, Adidas, Puma, Juventus FC, Manchester City FC, Infront, IMG, TEAM Marketing, the NBA, Eurovision, Soccerex, the World Football Summit and many others have been in attendance, recruiting at the event. The next iWorkinSport Job Fair will happen in Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 2nd. For more information and to register, go to www.iworkinsport.com/jobfair .

In addition to the traditional Job Fair, iWorkinSport organises two online events: the Education Virtual Expo and the Virtual Job Fair.

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