scholarly journals Measuring efficiency and productivity in professional football teams: evidence from the English Premier League

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isidoro Guzmán ◽  
Stephen Morrow
Keyword(s):  
Professional Football ◽  
Premier League ◽  
Measuring Efficiency ◽  
Efficiency And Productivity ◽  
English Premier League

scholarly journals Sports Psychology in the English Premier League: ‘It Feels Precarious and is Precarious’

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 426-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Gilmore ◽  
Christopher Wagstaff ◽  
John Smith
Keyword(s):  
Working Life ◽  
Job Security ◽  
Sports Psychology ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Premier League ◽  
English Premier League ◽  
Elite Division

This article gives a rare account of the working life of a sports psychologist in the English Premier League, the elite division in English professional football. It shows how members of emerging professions such as sports psychology are a new precariat. John is more successful than many sports psychologists, but his job security is dependent on his continued ability to navigate managerial change: using his skills as a psychologist in the defence of his own employment but simultaneously keeping the (potentially sensitive) ‘psychology’ label of the work he does hidden until circumstances are propitious.

scholarly journals The effect of crowd removal on goal scoring in professional football

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Harris ◽  
Mark Wilson ◽  
Samuel James Vine
Keyword(s):  
Performance Data ◽  
Professional Sport ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Premier League ◽  
Typical Performance ◽  
English Premier League ◽  
Rare Opportunity

In the present work we sought to use the rare opportunity to compare professional sport without a crowd with typical performance from previous seasons. We focused on the English Premier League as, anecdotally, there appears to have been an increase in goal scoring. Our primary aims were to: 1) determine whether more goals are in fact being scored; and 2) if so, further explore whether any performance data can indicate why this might be the case.

Understanding players' transition from youth to senior professional football environments: A coach perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Øystein Røynesdal ◽  
Tynke Toering ◽  
Henrik Gustafsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Premier League ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Team Environment ◽  
Fitting In ◽  
English Premier League

The aim of this study was to explore: (a) sociocultural features of a first team environment perceived to influence a player's progression, (b) the ways in which young players should manage these features and (c) how coaches operate to assist young players during specific phases in the youth-to-senior transition. Semi-structured interviews with eight elite development coaches in English Premier League football clubs generated two higher order categories: fitting in with standards of first team environment (e.g. handling social dynamics in the first team group) and facilitating shared perception of transition across key stakeholders (e.g. communicating with first team staff). Together, these findings indicate the need for young players to navigate between conforming, adapting to and breaking with specific features of the first team environment to successfully progress in the youth-to-senior transition to professional football.

scholarly journals Safeguarding, Chaplaincy and English Professional Football

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Oliver ◽  
Andrew Parker
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Holistic Care ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Team Management ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Premier League ◽  
English Premier League

In recent years, English professional football has been rocked by allegations of historical sexual abuse and safeguarding concerns around young players. This paper examines the potential contribution that sports chaplains can make to the specific welfare needs of elite youth footballers within the wider context of safeguarding practices and protocols. Comprising a small-scale, sociological study involving welfare personnel at English Premier League and English Football League Championship clubs, the paper identifies the scope and potential of sports chaplaincy in relation to the practical outworking of safeguarding policy. Findings reveal that elite youth footballers face a number of pressures specific to the highly competitive environment in which they work and that various safeguarding issues routinely arise amidst these pressures. The paper concludes by suggesting that sports chaplains are ideally placed to provide safeguarding and wider welfare support to young players as a consequence of their independence from team management structures and their prioritization of holistic care above performance-related issues.

scholarly journals Stress and Mental Well-Being Experiences of Professional Football Coaches

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Lee Baldock ◽  
Brendan Cropley ◽  
Rich Neil ◽  
Stephen D. Mellalieu
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Football Coaches ◽  
Professional Soccer ◽  
Premier League ◽  
Mental Well Being ◽  
Structured Approach ◽  
English Premier League

The stress experiences and their impact upon the daily lives and mental well-being of English Premier League professional (soccer) football coaches were explored using an in-depth qualitative design. Eight participants were interviewed using a semi-structured approach with thematic and causal network analysis revealing that (a) a range of contextually dependent demands were experienced and interpreted in relation to their situational properties; (b) many demands were appraised and emotionally responded to in a negative manner; (c) a range of coping strategies were adopted to cope with stress experiences, with many reported as ineffective; and (d) stress experiences often led to negative implications for their daily lives and eudaimonic and hedonic well-being. Positive adaptations to some demands experienced were reported and augmented perceptions of mental well-being. The findings of this study make a novel and significant contribution to understanding the interrelationships between the principal components of the stress process and the prospective links between stress and mental well-being.

scholarly journals Common international trends in football stadium attendance

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0247761
Author(s):  
Jan C. van Ours
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Premier League ◽  
English Premier League ◽  
Very High ◽  
Football Stadium

This paper examines long-term developments in stadium attendance in professional football in the Netherlands. As in many other European countries attendance had a U-shaped development with the lowest numbers in the mid-1980s. The developments in the Netherlands do not seem to have been affected by hooliganism but by socioeconomic factors. Furthermore, the association with stadium attendance in other European leagues in particular the English Premier League is very high. This suggests that stadium attendance is affected not only by national developments but also by common international trends in the interest in football matches.

scholarly journals Performance Expectations of Professional Sport Teams and In-Season Head Coach Dismissals—Evidence from the English and French Men’s Football First Divisions

Economies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Yvon Rocaboy ◽  
Marek Pavlik
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Professional Sport ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Head Coach ◽  
Performance Expectations ◽  
Premier League ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
Expected Performance ◽  
Sport Teams ◽  
English Premier League

The goals of this paper are first to identify why professional football clubs replace their head coach and, second, to investigate the effect of coach dismissal on team performance. To do that, we propose a new method for assessing the performance expectations of professional sport teams using Monte Carlo simulation. We apply our method to the English Premier league and the French Ligue 1 football teams over the 2015–2016 and 2016–2017 seasons. We find that coach dismissal is the result of a drop in the average expected performance compared with the performance expectations at the beginning of the season. We also show that dismissing a coach may enhance performance only if the team under-performed before the dismissal. There is no obstacle to using the same method for professional teams in other sports. The method is easily reproducible and does not require much information in order to be applied.

scholarly journals Organization of sports selection in the system of youth and professional english football

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-65
Author(s):  
Andriy Dulibskyy
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Football Players ◽  
System Support ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Premier League ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
English Premier League ◽  
Sports Selection

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the organization and conduct of the process of sports selection in youth and professional football in England. The main scientific and methodological approaches of software and system support of the process of sports selection in youth and professional football in England are analysed. The program of the English Football Association "Talent pathway" (in the Ukrainian edition - "Шлях таланту") is presented in detail. The essence of this program is that due to participation in the program in special "Regional Talent Camps" and "National Talent Camps" thoughtful and in-depth selection and sports training are young football players aged 7 to 16 years. The program of the English Premier League "Premier League Primary Stars" has been studied. We believe that a certain selective broadcast of the English system of organization and conduct of the process of sports selection and selection in youth and professional football is possible in terms of the model of functioning and improvement of youth football schools and football clubs of Ukraine. Scientific and practical approaches to the organization and conduct of educational, training and competitive forms of sports selection and orientation in the age groups "U 10" (children under 10 years) and "U 12" (children under 12 years) are analysed. The system of organization of competitions in age groups "U 14" (teenagers under 14 years) and "U 16" (boys under 16 years) is studied. Such a scientific and methodological approach can provide an opportunity to effectively integrate domestic football to the best examples of European and world sport of excellence, which are competitions under the auspices of FIFA and UEFA.

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