Gest？o Desportiva: análise das disserta？？es de Mestrado e teses de Doutoramento na Faculdade de Desporto da Universidade do Porto

the propose of this study is describe and understand the lines of research outlined in the office of sport management in faculty of sport at the university of oporto, since the first (1998) to the eighth edition of the masters of sport management (2005). methodologically, the data for research were collected by administrative records relating to the master's and doctoral students, whose treatment fell by descriptive analysis of several indicators, including: gender, nationality, guiding, total time for obtaining a degree. we collected even the body of dissertations and theses on the above issues and proceeded to its differentiation on the science, methodologies and keywords. the results indicate that the area of research, planning and strategy is predominant in the master？s dissertations (27%), and the areas of the sports law and the organizational development fulfilling the areas of doctoral research (50%). the quantitative approach and exploratory study are the predominant methodologies of the masters dissertations. in doctoral work on the qualitative approach and exploratory study along with the descriptive analysis are more representative. on the average time spent by the public presentation and defense, the results point to 2 years and 6 months for the master's students and 4 years and 4 months for doctoral students.