Development of sports management in St. Petersburg

Fundamental changes in Russian society provoked the emergence of a new science in the last decade of the twentieth century - sports management. The reason for the emergence this was the market economy, which determined the need to introduce an employee directly responsible for managing the activities and development of sports clubs in sports organizations at different levels. Currently, there is an improvement in the main indicators of the development of physical culture and sports in the Russian Federation. This is largely due to the implementation of state targeted programs, the popularization of mass sports. The infrastructure of the sphere of physical culture and sports is developing everywhere, the number of students involved in sports is increasing. The mass media actively promotes a healthy lifestyle. The most popular sports include: lawn tennis, fitness, bodybuilding, football, hockey and gymnastics. All this testifies to the dynamic development of the sports management system and the relevance in modern society of the new profession of sports manager, designed to provide management in the field of physical culture and sports at different levels.