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

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 …

We analyze attendance of professional football matches in England finding that it is related to unemployment over a … relationship is larger for lower leagues, i.e. attendance of lower quality football events are more sensitive to fluctuations in …

We develop a new dynamic multivariate model for the analysis and the forecasting of football match results in national … six large European football competitions and we validate the precision of the forecasts for a period of seven years for …

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

In his last season as professional football player, Johan Cruyff played at Feyenoord. This paper shows that Cruyff …

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 study an alternative approach to determine the final league table in football competitions with a premature ending …. For several countries, a premature ending of the 2019/2020 football season has occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We …