That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options … literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few …

leaders and organisational performance. Using game-by-game linked employer-employee data for professional football in four … reweight teams' performance prior to the departure of a Coach so that trends in team performance prior to the departure match … spells which ended with a Coach remaining in post. Consistent with theory, Head Coach quits have little or no impact on team …

the UEFA European Football Championship (from 1960 to 2012). We relate team performance (in terms of points gained and …We investigate the role of fatigue in soccer (football). Although this issue is important for the "productivity" of … on all the matches played by national teams in all the tournaments of the FIFA Soccer World Cup (from 1930 to 2010) and …

One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach … of a club’s first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in …

Does national team performance boost birth rates? We compiled a unique dataset combining country-level monthly birth … rates for 50 European countries, along 56 years, with measures of national teams' performance in 27 international football …

There are three main critical areas in the Italian football industry. First, we find that the revenues of teams playing …

incentives in European football. The different regimes, being used until 1995 ("Pre-Bosman" or P), currently in use ("Bosman" or …

We examine the effect of the sending-off of a player on the goal-scoring rates in FIFA World Cup matches in tournaments …-scoring rate. A red card may harm the team that receives a red card and may be beneficial for their opponent. Indeed, we find that … the goal-scoring rate of the sanctioned team goes down, while the goal-scoring rate of the non-sanctioned team goes up. …

this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change - but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous … on coach dismissals in the German football league where the selection of players is indeed a key task of the coach …. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …