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Stefan Szymanski
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Stefan Szymanski, PhD

  • Professor of Sport Management
  • Member, Center for Sport Marketing Research
  • Member, Center for Sports Venues & Real Estate Development
  • Graduate Faculty, Sport Management

About

Dr. Stefan Szymanski is a professor of Sport Management in the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology. Before coming to U-M in 2011, he had appointments at London Business School, Imperial College Business School, and Cass Business School, all in London. Dr. Szymanski completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, and received his PhD in Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London. As a leading expert in the economics of sports in general and soccer in particular, he is widely quoted in the media and has written op-eds for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Financial Times. You can follow him on Twitter (@sszy) and on his blog (soccernomics-agency.com).

Dr. Szymanski has authored more than one hundred academic papers published in reviewed journals, mostly on the economics and history of sport. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Soccernomics (with Simon Kuper), the fourth edition of which appeared in 2018. The book has been translated into fifteen languages. A history of sports in Detroit (co-authored with Dr. Silke Weineck) will be published in 2020.

Dr. Szymanski has appeared as an expert witness on the economics of sport in numerous court cases on issues such as the collective sale of broadcast rights, the valuation of soccer clubs, and recently for the US Department of Justice on the economics of corruption in relation to the trial of former FIFA executives.

He is currently leading the development of a series of MOOCs (massive open online courses) on programming sports analytics in Python in collaboration with the U-M School of Information.

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Areas of Interest

Sports management and economics; sport history, culture and society; European sport and the internationalization of sport; international sports federations and the governance of sport.

Contact

Address

SKB 3220

830 North University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
United States

Phone

(734) 647-0950

Email

[email protected]

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Classes

Course Course Title Credits Term
KINESLGY 685 Res Rotation in Kin 3 - 6 Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
SM 238 Intro to Accounting 1.5 As Arranged, Winter
SM 239 IntroFinancialDecMak 1.5 As Arranged, Winter
SM 241 Sports Econ&Pol 3 As Arranged, Winter, Fall
SM 313 Special Topics 1.5 As Arranged, Fall, Spring, Winter
SM 361 Detroit Sports Cultr 3 Fall
SM 451 SportAnlytcsTeamPerf 3 As Arranged, Fall
SM 461 Detroit Sports 3 As Arranged, Fall
SM 462 Global & ML Soccer 3 As Arranged, Fall

News

WWJ 950 Newsradio: Dates for 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh announced, locations hinted
January 23, 2025
The Conversation: New ruling makes it cheaper for soccer players to transfer teams
October 8, 2024
The i: Why new tactics could improve Arsenal's chances of taking Premier League title
September 21, 2024
The i: Why the long-range goal still works in soccer
September 19, 2024

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Stefan Szymanski
Professor of sport management
September 15, 2023
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