literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few …

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 … performance whereas teams who fire their Head Coach experience small but statistically significant improvements in team …

of the major Italian soccer league ("Series A") we analyze the effects of coach (manager) changes in terms of team … performance. From our preliminary estimates, including year and team fixed effects, it emerges that changing the coach produces a … positive effect on a number of measures of team performance. However, this effect turns out to be statistically insignificant …