ABSTRACT Research objectives: The European market for football club investors is
undergoing a significant transformation, with German clubs opening up for strategic …

Association football is a popular sport, but it is also a big business. From a managerial
perspective, the most important decisions that team managers make concern player …

Football is a popular sport; however, it is a big business as well. From a managerial
perspective, the important decisions that team managers make—Concerning player …

Europe's elite football clubs are a small group of about 30 clubs mostly originating from the
Big Five leagues in England, Italy, Spain, Germany, and France. These clubs top Deloitte's …

Although deeply ingrained in the economics of professional team sports literature, previous
research could not confirm the importance of outcome uncertainty in European professional …

Purpose This paper aims to provide empirical evidence on competitive balance in the “big
five” European football leagues, namely, the English Premier League, French Ligue 1 …

This paper provides a sociological model of the key transnational political and economic
forces that are shaping the 'global football field'. The model draws upon, and significantly …

Previous research based on revealed preferences cannot assess whether (increasingly
imbalanced) football competitions might be at risk of moving into territory where consumer …

The transfer of a football player for over 100 million EUR has been nothing extraordinary in
recent years. In general football clubs are spending increasing amounts of money on player …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine competitive balance in European football
leagues before and after the inception of Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations by Union of …