Sporting director
Management role in sports clubs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the management role in sports clubs, especially association football. For the role in a broadcasting organisation, see sports director. 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.[1] The sporting director is usually directly subordinate to the CEO or the chairman of the sports organization. The sporting director is in turn typically the manager of the coaching staff.[2]
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