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 … responsibility implies better sport performance and higher chances to qualify for the Champions and Europa Leagues …

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 …

prosperity. To this end, we analyse 2,012 recent matches played in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. We find that … 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 …

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 …

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

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 … driving up the total costs up to unsustainable levels. The third problem relates to a lack of credibility of the competition …

We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity … between leaders and subordinates. We find for the Premier League (the highest level of competition) that, other things being …

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 …

We are the first to investigate whether the introduction of additional assistant referees in the UEFA Europa League (in …