Sport management

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Turn your love of sport into a career

Imagine turning your passion for sports into a fulfilling and exciting career. Sport is central to the Australian lifestyle, and if you're keen to help organise, manage and promote this industry, studying sport management is the ideal option for you.

With a degree from Griffith, you'll develop specialist knowledge of the sport industry combined with solid business skills to enable you to manage professional and not-for-profit sport organisations, athletes, sporting events and more.

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In this major, you’ll develop specialist knowledge of the sport industry and gain solid business skills to enable you to manage professional and not-for-profit sports organisations and clubs.

Learn from the experts

Griffith's sport management degrees will provide you with the sound business management knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in sports management. You'll learn from staff with qualifications enriched by ongoing research. Our academics have provided marketing and management solutions to business, community and government organisations dedicated to the delivery of sport, events and services such as the International Olympic Committee, the Australian Sports Commission and the World Anti-Doping Agency.

AACSB Accredited

Griffith Business School is an accredited member of AACSB International which means our business degrees are internationally recognised for excellence and outstanding business education. It’s the most prestigious accreditation a business school can earn.

Liam Faithful

A degree in sport management enabled Liam Faithful to combine his love of sport with a future career. Liam complemented his studies with an internship at the Queensland Reds rugby union team, which enabled him to get a grasp on the operations of the club, undertaking everything from data analysis to event preparation. 'The highlight of the internship was definitely seeing what happens within a professional sporting club. For me, the ultimate goal is to work in a similar organisation so this was a really good stepping-stone,' he says. Liam's dream came true after graduation when he was offered a position as a sales and memberships consultant with professional Australian rugby league club, the North Queensland Cowboys.

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We offer hundreds of scholarships to our students, and you can apply for all of them with just one online form.

Scholarships are free to apply and offer support for academic achievement, relocation, First Peoples, sports achievement and others. One application form, all scholarships considered.

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Career outcomes

Sport is big business

You’ll find opportunities in government departments, local, national and international sporting clubs and event management organisations. There are also positions in sport tourism, marketing, media and athlete representation.

Key employment sectors:

sporting clubs
event management
sport tourism
sports marketing
athlete representation

Potential job outcomes:

sports club manager
community sport coordinator
sports manager
sports marketing manager
sporting events manager

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Life at Griffith

You can gain more than just a degree at Griffith. With plenty of opportunities to balance life and study, you can make memories and mates to last a lifetime.

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Key dates

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Monday 14 July — Saturday 25 October

Trimester 2 - 2025

Our second teaching trimester starts on 14 July.

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Monday 3 November — Saturday 21 February

Trimester 3 - 2025

Our third teaching trimester starts on 3 November.