national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … teams of Brazil and Italy only conceded one goal in the last minute. As to winning penalty shootouts, Germany outperforms … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national …

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

on coach dismissals in the German football league where the selection of players is indeed a key task of the coach …

We test the soccer myth suggesting that a particularly good moment to score a goal is just before half time. To this … myth, we find that, conditional on the goal difference and other game characteristics at half time, the final goal … difference at the advantage of the home team is 0.520 goals lower in case of a goal just before half time by this team. We show …

of referee bias and that they are not just picking up a general time evolution towards less referee bias or the effect of …

This study is the first to estimate the effects of the sending-off of a player on the full time results in …