This paper evaluates the European football clubs' compliance with UEFA Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations and the … control for team quality through the annual wages (in quadratic form) and use the Wage-to-Revenue (WRR) ratio as a proxy …

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 …

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 … international tournaments, there are no relevant effects of enjoying different days of rest on team performance. However, we find …

incentives and high motivation. By analyzing the performance of professional football players on a well-defined task, namely to …

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 … a 6% higher starting salary in the NFL, and a 15% higher first-year signing bonus, for each year with the college team …

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

We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity …

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 …

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 …