Applications for the first edition of the PILLAI-FIFA-CIES Executive Programme in Sports Management has ended.

However, candidates with more than 4 years of work experience (any field) and who would not be able to take this course in the future can email fifaciesadmissions@mes.ac.in about their interest along with an updated CV. Their applications will be looked at on a case to case basis.

FIFA (World’s Governing body of Football) along with CIES (International Centre for Sports Studies) established the FIFA/CIES University Network in the year 2004 ‘to give students the broadest possible vision of management in modern sports’. Today, FIFA/CIES has an established network for conducting their executive sports management programme in 15 different countries in Asia, Africa, South America and Central America, as well as in the Caribbean, the Middle East and Europe. India is the 16th country in the global map to have such a programme and 1st in South Asia to get an authorization for running such an initiative.