Risk Assessment Report: England Football Team World Cup 2018

This report presents a comprehensive risk assessment for the England national football team participating in the 2018 Football World Cup in Russia. It identifies potential risks, including public unrest, violent crime, terrorism, and threats against players. The analysis covers risk appetite, tolerance, and a risk breakdown structure. The report assesses risk probabilities, impacts, and severity, utilizing a risk severity matrix and a risk register. It recommends strategies for risk management, such as identifying player risk appetites and aligning strategies for effective results. The report highlights limitations of the findings and provides recommendations for mitigating risks, aiming to ensure player safety and enhance team performance during the tournament. The report includes tables and figures to illustrate the risk assessment process and findings.

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Risk Assessment of the 2018 Football World Cup for the National Football Team
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Executive Summary
The report is based on the risk assessment plan for the sport players of National team of
England which is going to participate in the Footballs World Cup 2018 which will be held in
Russia. The report describes the risk associated with the sporting event and how to manage the
risk to reduce or mitigate its impact. Further, the scope of the project describes the identification
of risks, the probability of its occurrence, impact of these risks on the players if it gets occurred,
how much is the severity of each risk and how to respond to this risk in order to reduce or
mitigate its impact.
Further, the project has done the analysis of risk using various dimensions like risk
appetite and tolerance, risk probabilities, risk impact, risk severity matrix, risk responses and risk
register. After analysing the risk, the manager has been provided with various recommendations
to manage the risk for the team during the sports event. The risk manager has been recommended
to identify the risk appetite of each player, then aligning the strategy with the risk management
plan in order to achieve effective results. Lastly, the report also describes the limitation of the
findings carried out.

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary.............................................................................................................3
Background..........................................................................................................................4
Analysis...............................................................................................................................4
1. Aim and success criteria for Project............................................................................5
2. Risk Appetite and Tolerance.......................................................................................6
3. Risk Breakdown Structure...........................................................................................7
4. Risk Probabilities.........................................................................................................8
5. Risk Impacts..............................................................................................................12
6. Risk Severity Matrix..................................................................................................14
7. Risk Responses..........................................................................................................15
8. Risk Register..............................................................................................................17
Recommendations..............................................................................................................19
Limitations.........................................................................................................................20
References..........................................................................................................................22

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Table of Figures
Figure 1: Risk Breakdown Structure...............................................................................................9
Figure 2: Risk Response................................................................................................................17
List of Tables
Table 1: Success Criteria.................................................................................................................6
Table 2: Risk Probabilities...............................................................................................................9
Table 3: Risk Impacts....................................................................................................................13
Table 4: Risk Severity Matrix........................................................................................................16
Table 5: Risk Register...................................................................................................................18

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Background
This project is based upon the assessment of risk of the 2018 Football World Cup for the
National Football Team. The data has been collected regarding the type of risk which may
encounter during the game which will held in Russia from 14th June to 15th August 2018. This
sporting event raises the question for the safety and security of the players (Hubicki, 2014). The
risk assessment in the present report has been done for the team of England which is going to
Russia for the football game. As per the collected data, various positive as well as negative risks
events have been identified and will be analysed in the report to for the risk management plan so
that preparation on risk management can begin in advance (Hanstad, 2012).
The aim of the project is to analyse the risk for preparing risk management plan to
mitigate it in advance. Furthermore, deliverables of the project is to prepare the accurate risk
assessment plan from the player’s perspective so that the coach of the team could prepare their
team in advance against the risks (Poolsappasit, Dewri and Ray, 2012). Further, the success
criteria of the project are to mitigate or reduce the impact of all types of sporting risks that can
impact the players and their performance in the Football World Cup 2018.
Analysis
Analysis generally means the detailed examination of the laments or structure. Similarly,
risk analysis is the process of defining as well assessing the dangers to wither individual or to the
organization which can be posed by potential events that can be either natural or human-caused.
In a similar manner, in the present report, risk assessment for the sporting event has been done
where risk related to sports have been identified and it has been analysed to mitigate it in
advance. However, there are both type of risk involved that is positive events as well as negative

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events and these can have different impact on the players and their performance (James, Kelly
and Beckman, 2014).
For analysing the risk for risk management plan, various kind of analysis has been done
and those have been described as follows:
1. Aim and success criteria for Project
The current project is about the preparation of a risk management plan for the sport
players of England which is going to participate in the World Football Cup 2018 in Russia. This
project aims to identify the potential issues prior to their occurrence in order to plan the risk-
handling activities (Pritchard and PMP, 2014). These activities can also be invoked as and when
needed across the project life. It also aims to mitigate the adverse impact which can be caused
while achieving the objectives that is to give the best performance during the match and exceeds
the expectations of the country and the coach.
On the other hand, success criteria are generally the standards through which the project
is judged at the end. In this, it is decided that whether the project is successful and met the
expectations of the stakeholders or not (Loosemore and et al., 2012). For the present project that
is based upon the risk management of sporting activity for Football World Cup 2018. The
success criteria for the present project are as follows:
Table 1: Success Criteria
Success
Criterion
Grade Criterion
Yes No
Scope Scope of the risk management project
is identified in a given time, given cost
Scope of the risk management project
is not recognized within given time

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and within the duration of the
activities.
and cost and also in a specific duration
of the activities.
Budget Risk management is done in a given
budget.
Risk management exceeded the budget
provided by the project manager.
Schedule The schedule of the risk management
is prepared in advance.
The schedule for the risk assessment is
not prepared.
Resources The required resources such physical,
human and technical are already in
place while developing the risk
management plan.
The resources required for
accomplishing the task is not in place.
Process
Adherence
The risk manager is adhering to the
process of risk management.
Manager is not adhering towards the
process.
2. Risk Appetite and Tolerance
Risk appetite is basically the amount of risk which an organization or a team is willing to
take for meeting their strategies objectives. It is already known that risk is present in every event
and one has to take the risk to achieve success. However, it depends upon the individual that how
much risk he can take to win the game (Hartmann and Juepner, 2014). For the present case, the
maximum average risk appetite of each player is 60% and if the risk will be put more than that
then it may impact the performance of the players. Therefore, risk manager has to apply suitable
measure in order to mitigate it and to reduce it till 60% of its impact. For instance, the risk

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appetite during violent crime in Russia is 40% and if it happens more than that then it will impact
the player’s performance.
Furthermore, the risk tolerance is regarded as the degree of variability of the returns that
an investor is willing to withstand. Risk tolerance is an important component while playing the
game. For instance, the risk of wider public unrest into Russia is going on when the President
Putin stated that a re-election is done in March 2018 presidential polls (Hull, 2012). For this risk,
tolerance of player is medium if there is a breakdown in the Russian public during the game.
3. Risk Breakdown Structure
It is said that risks involve anything unplanned and unforeseen events which can put a
negative impact on the project and its quality. It is the duty of a project manager to manage the
risk effectively and get the project on track. For managing the risk in an appropriate manner,
proper tools must be applied and one of the important tools to manage the risk is the Risk
Breakdown Structure (Leoni and et al., 2015). RBS is basically a hieratical representation of
risks that starts from higher levels and goes down to last level risks. It is similar to the work
breakdown structure for project management. The RBS for the identified sport event risk is as
follows:

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Figure 1: Risk Breakdown Structure
4. Risk Probabilities
Effective risk management needs analysis of inherently uncertain events as well as
circumstances which addresses two dimensions that how likely the uncertainty is about to occur
and what effect would be if it would happen. The likeliness of the risk is termed as probability of
the risk (Fuller, Junge and Dvorak, 2012). For the present case, where sporting risk management
for the Football World Cup 2018 for the England team has been done and the risk manager has
identified 5 major risks for the sports event, the probability of these risks has been done. This
will help the risk manager know that which risk contains the high probability of occurrence and
which one contains low probability. The probability index has been prepared as follows:
Table 2: Risk Probabilities
S.No. Type of Risk Probability of occurrence Description
1. Risk of wider public
unrest into Russia
Medium The President of Russia
announced for the re-
Project
Risks
Techni
cal
Requir
ements Technol
ogy
Compl
exity
External
Regula
tory Play
ers
Wea
ther
Organizational
Reso
urces Funding
Project
Depende
ncies
Project Management
Estima
tion
Plann
ing
Controlli
ng Communic
ation

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election and for that,
candidates opposed the
president’s decision.
Therefore, Russian
opposition is fragmented
and it is a major threat to
power structure. The
probability of the
occurrence of this risk
during the game is
moderate.
2. Risk of violent crime Medium Rivalries among
opposing party are
continued to create the
risk of violence. As there
are clashed going on
among England and
Russian supporters and it
can result into material
damages and risk of
exposure to violence.
Thus, the likeliness of the

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occurrence of this risk is
estimated as medium.
3. Threat of terrorism High The risk of terrorism is
high in Russia because
Russians are facing
continuous threats from
terrorists worldwide.
Further, the Islamic state
called the attacks because
of the strategic
involvement into the
Syrian conflicts. In mid-
2017, terrorist group has
issued various calls for
doing the attacks during
the Football World Cup
2018. However, it is a
higher profile sporting
event; therefore, the
probability of occurrence
of this risk is estimated to

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be very high.
4. Threat against the players Medium Threat of terrorism can
be against the players
because there is a risk of
terror at the global
sporting event. Various
calls have come to attack
throughout the
tournament and many
calls show the threat
against players.
Therefore, the likeliness
of occurring this risk is
amounted to be medium.
5. Islamist insurgency into
North Caucasus
Low The Sunni Muslim
extremist groups that are
based in North Caucasus
are tied with the local
criminal networks.
However, it has been
found out that security
forces of Russia has been