Toward an enduring football economy: a business model taxonomy for Europe's professional football clubs

C Buck, S Ifland - European sport management quarterly, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Research question We identify the key components of the business models (BMs) of
professional European football clubs, introducing a structured business model approach to …

A Review of Competitive Balance in European Football Leagues before and after Financial Fair Play Regulations

G Ramchandani, D Plumley, A Davis, R Wilson - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper analyses competitive balance in 24 top-division domestic football leagues in
Europe before and after the implementation of UEFA's Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations …

Commercialization, governance problems, and the future of european football—or why the european super league is not a solution to the challenges facing football

U Wagner, RK Storm, K Cortsen - … journal of sport …, 2021 - journals.humankinetics.com
Recently, 12 European football clubs launched the idea of creating the European Super
League. After massive protests from fans, the Union of European Football Associations …

NPOs and private governance forms for football clubs: towards a blended model

D Agostino, A Thomasson - Accounting, Auditing & Accountability …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study explores the relationship between governance model–private
organisations vs non-profit organisations (NPOs)–and performance in football clubs …

Ethnic discrimination in Scandinavia: evidence from a field experiment in women's amateur soccer

RK Storm, C Nesseler, M Holum, A Nygaard… - Humanities and Social …, 2023 - nature.com
In this paper, we examine ethnic discrimination using sport as a laboratory. Applying a field
experiment in the three Scandinavian countries—Sweden, Norway, and Denmark—we test …

The other ISL: analysing the finances of the Indian Super League (football) and its franchisees

S Mondal, D Plumley, R Wilson - Managing Sport and Leisure, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Rationale: This paper conducts a holistic performance analysis of the Indian Super League
(ISL) football competition and its member franchisees between 2014–2015 and 2019–2020 …

Marketisation, ownership and digitalisation strategies in the sport industry–generic insights and future research

K Venkitachalam, B Schwartz… - Journal of Strategy and …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The motivation for this paper is to provide a deeper understanding of some of the
important and trending topics in the sport industry. Besides this, to consider the changing …

Coincidence and conditions: An in-depth case study of a successful age group within a grassroots football club

NN Rossing, CG Mogensen… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This case study involved an in-depth exploration of a successful age group within a
grassroots football club in Denmark. The research was conducted through observations …

'If you haven't got the contacts… you have no choice': A figurational examination of unpaid work in football scouting in men's professional football in England

J Griffiths, D Bloyce - … Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Association football has been viewed as an industry with considerable lucrative career
prospects; however, this has not prevented the use of unpaid staff throughout football in the …

Struggling with the amateur identity: the self-perception of the Danish football movement, 1880s to 1970s

AB Grønkjær - Soccer & Society, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A vital element of the history of football in Denmark is the identity of the football
movement. It developed itself in Denmark from the end of the nineteenth century. Contact …