We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from … which teams enjoy different levels of support from the crowd - the home team has many more supporters, mainly because of …

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

soccer. Ethnic team composition is measured using facial recognition techniques, player names, and nationality. The study …This paper examines the relationship between customer preferences and ethnic team composition in German professional ….6 percentage points. When examining the impacts of these changes in ethnic team composition on team productivity and economic …

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 …

on the universe of professional soccer players in Germany over the period 1999-2011. Combining this data with hourly …

We investigate whether the home advantage in soccer differs by various dimensions of distance between the (regions of … when the home team plays at a higher altitude, they benefit substantially more from their home advantage. Every 100 meters … of altitude difference is associated with an increase in expected probability to win the match, as the home team, by 1 …

international club soccer. To this end, we analyse data of more than 2,000 recent games in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa …

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

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 …