SIGA leads launch of Sport Transparency Index to rank clubs, leagues and governing bodies

December 12 – The Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) has announced the launch of a Sport Transparency Index which will rank and compare baseline levels of transparency between clubs, leagues, national associations and governing bodies.

The announcement was made by SIGA's Global CEO, Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros, at the end of SIGA's International Anti-Corruption Week.

"This is a crucial step, not only for SIGA and our global community, but also for European sport and the wider industry," said de Medeiros.

"The purpose of the Sports Transparency Index is to turn on the lights for the integrity and transparency of sport, and that is precisely what we will do."

Funded by the European Commission, through the Erasmus+ programme, SIGA will lead a collaboration of 15 organizations from more than 10 European countries in this 30-month project, which will start in 2023.

SIGA said the project "will create the mechanism for benchmarking European sport stakeholders, including clubs, leagues, national associations and international governing bodies against a robust set of universal performance indicators. transparency.

“This ambitious project will map the European sport transparency landscape and provide both the mechanism for assessing levels of good governance transparency and the means for the sports industry to improve the way it operates Deliverables include, among others, a publicly available Sport Transparency Index, a range of digital training packages to enable knowledge exchange and a set of policy recommendations that will combine to facilitate greater integrity in sport. European."

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