Eighty-three Texas high school football stadiums have opened since 2008. Both pro stadiums and amateur stadiums have found their way into the ire of economists, who decry such expensive projects as lavish and foolhardy. Sociologists meanwhile point to ambition and pride as contributing to the growth of professional and amateur stadiums. / text

Title: Use of grants for development of the field hockey sports club Slavia Praha Objectives: The main purpose of this thesis was to set up preferred goals for the field hockey sports club Slavia Praha to ensure its successfull development, with an emphasis on the use of grants provided by the City of Prague. Another goal is to create a list of available grant programs for sports clubs in Prague. Methods: Two analysis methods were applied in this study. The first one was based on the analysis of the documents related to the application for available grants. Thanks to this method the overview of the available grants opportunities was created. The second method was SWOT analysis regarding the field hockey sports club Slavia Praha which contributed to the setting up of new partial and strategic task for the positive development of the club. Results: The field hockey sports club in Prague, which own or long term lease the sports real properties, can apply to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports for grants. The other field hockey sports clubs can apply for grants of the Prague City Hall or its town disctricts. The main results of this study were the set up of the strategic goals for the following 3 years period in relation to the provided grants and creation of sub-tasks to meet operational...

Eighty-three Texas high school football stadiums have opened since 2008. Both pro stadiums and amateur stadiums have found their way into the ire of economists, who decry such expensive projects as lavish and foolhardy. Sociologists meanwhile point to ambition and pride as contributing to the growth of professional and amateur stadiums.

Title: Participatory budgeting as one of the possible sources of funding for sport Objectives: Examine particular project financing opportunities for the construction of a street workout park, possibly from public funds provided in grant programs to promote and support sport. Methods: The work used the method of document analysis, then synthesis of the data to create reports for a better orientation in grant programs and also the method of case studies to illustrate solid examples of grant applications. Results: The result is lucid table used for selecting the right grant program in respect of specific case. The work also includes ideas and recommendations based on personal experience gained by participating in the project Moje stopa financed by participatory budget. The result is a proposal to detach a separate program for sport in the upcoming next year of this project. Keywords: sports funding, grants, sport supporting programs, case study method

Title: The subsidy policy applied by the city of Přelouč in sport Objectives: The main objective of this thesis is to describe the policy of the city of Přelouč in the support of sport, sports funding at the local level with the description of individual funding opportunity, building sports infrastructure in the long run focusing on receiving grants for sport. Methods: In this diploma thesis the method of mixed research is used consisting of work with documents related to grants provided to selected sports facilities in the city. Further personal or written interviews and questioning with representatives of the city of Přelouč and villages in the district of the city and with sports facilities managers. Results: The result of the thesis is a text that contains information about the support given by the city into the sports infrastructure, description of the areas of financing with an emphasis on subsidies. The city of Přelouč fixed the sport as one if its policy priority and within the budget allocates to sport around 1%. Over the last ten years, the city of Přelouč realized with the help of state and Europe grants three large projects for the expansion of the sports infrastructure. The city creates sports conditions for the village inhabitants in the urban district where the situation is not at...

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the marketing activities of insurance companies in the field of sport and success of those activities. The aim is also finding of public awareness of those activities and their financial analysis. The first part is dedicated to the theory of Sports Marketing, second part of thesis is about specific marketing activities in sports of the three insurance companies, Česká pojišťovna insurance company, ČSOB Pojišťovna insurance company and Kooperativa insurance company. This part deals with the reasons of supporting the field of sport, its use, success and future. The third part is a research of public awareness of sports marketing of Czech insurance companies. The last part contains a financial analysis.