important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six … 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 …

We analyze attendance of professional football matches in England finding that it is related to unemployment over a … relationship is larger for lower leagues, i.e. attendance of lower quality football events are more sensitive to fluctuations in …

attendance effects of new sports stadiums in a European sports league, i.e. the top tier of Dutch professional football … persists. There is no transient novelty effect but a long-lasting positive attendance effect of new football stadiums. …