One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach …

That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options … bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and attract talented managers from other clubs. Indeed, most of the …

leaders and organisational performance. Using game-by-game linked employer-employee data for professional football in four …

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …

We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity … equal, managers who themselves played at a higher level raise the productivity of less-skilled teams by more than that of … subordinates the skills needed to succeed, since less skilled players have more to learn. We also find that managers with more …

have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League …

rates for 50 European countries, along 56 years, with measures of national teams' performance in 27 international football …

After three years in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), collegiate football players face a trade …-off between spending more time in the NCAA and pursuing a career in the National Football League (NFL) by declaring for the draft …