labor market for football managers, we find that in around one quarter of all cases, where a firm hires an experienced …

We study whether there is a racial bias in ratings of professional football players in Italian newspapers. We find that … discrimination. Clubs simply want value for money. Newspaper football experts do seem to have a racial bias in their rating of …

In 1983 England's fifth-tier football competition introduced a two-points-for-ahome-win and three …

In the Netherlands, in the top tier of professional football some teams play their home matches on an artificial pitch …

We investigate stadium attendance in the highest level of Dutch professional football for the seasons 2000/01 - 2015 …/16 focusing on outcome uncertainty, loss aversion and team quality. We find that for individual football matches, attendance is … impact of the introduction of a unique and large end-of-season play-off scheme for the qualification for European football. …

We analyze 45 years of data from English professional football focusing on the determinants of home advantage. We …

One major argument to legitimize the transfer system in European club football is that transfer fees paid by hiring … clubs across eight national football associations. Overall, the transfer system leads to a very modest reduction in revenue …

Economic agents react to incentives, and this holds true for professional football teams as well. Double round … single-match elimination system. Utilizing data from Dutch professional football spanning from the 2004/05 season to the 2022 …

attendance effects of new sports stadiums in a European sports league, i.e. the top tier of Dutch professional football … persists. There is no transient novelty effect but a long-lasting positive attendance effect of new football stadiums. …