Rethinking the concept and function of "community-based" in the process of acceptance of professional sports

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23500714
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: Tohoku University (2011-2012, 2014); Biwako-Gakuin University (2013)
• Principal Investigator: NAKAJIMA Nobuhiro 東北大学, 教育学研究科(研究院), 名誉教授 (80005826)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MATSUNO Masahiro 横浜市立大学, 国際総合科学部, 准教授 (00386666)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 地域密着 / プロスポーツ / アクター / セクター / 地域経済 / 地方自治体 / 市民運動 / メディア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To rethink the concept of "the community-based", a case study was made on a professional football club called the Vegalta Sendai. Especially the period of its foundation, various actors from various sector played their own role. Sendai city has not had relatively big companies that sometimes sponsored big football clubs in Japan. The local Football Association in Miyagi Prefecture （voluntary sector）played a initial contributions. And also the campaign from citizens and mass-media supported the movement. Then finally the local community of business put a serious effort into this.

Free Research Field

スポーツ社会学 地域社会学