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 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.

The Valuation of Athletes as Risky Investments: A Theoretical Model

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haim Kedar-Levy ◽  
Michael Bar-Eli
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Optimal Schedule ◽  
Professional Sport ◽  
Rate Of Return ◽  
Compensation Contracts ◽  
Expected Performance ◽  
Sport Teams

The desire to hire the best athletes and coaches in order to maximize team performance necessitates generous compensation contracts, which in turn increase the risk of financial distress or even bankruptcy for team owners. Indeed, one of the largest expense items in the budget of professional sport teams is the remuneration of players and coaches. Yet an investment made today in a given team yields an uncertain income in the future because team profitability depends on the uncertain performance of each player and the synchronization among players—both influenced by the coach. We present a formal theoretical model that assesses athletes’ valuation and accounts for the aforementioned factors. The optimal compensation schedule is determined empirically by regressing expected performance measures of each player with the aggregate team performance. Once the optimal schedule has been determined, the expected rate of return for the owner is earned at the lowest possible risk.

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.

scholarly journals FINANCIAL VALUE OF UKRAINIAN PREMIER LEAGUE CLUBS IN RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOTBALL MIGRATION INDICATORS

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-195
Author(s):  
Sobol Eduard ◽  
Svatyev Andrii
Keyword(s):  
Football Players ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Premier League ◽  
Linear Relationships ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Quantitative Indicators ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Generalization Of Data

Introduction. Indicators of financial and economic support and migration of football players create preconditions for the formation of a highly competitive sports environment in professional football clubs and in the Ukrainian Premier League. The aim of the study is to analyze the quantitative indicators of migration of football players in the Ukrainian Premier League in relation to the financial and economic support of professional football clubs and to systematize the results. Materials and methods: analysis and generalization of data of scientific and methodical literature sources and the Internet, pedagogical observations, content analysis of materials of official sites of professional football clubs of the Ukrainian Premier League, official sites of the Ukrainian Football Association and the Ukrainian Premier League, methods of mathematical statistics. Results. The relationship between the financial value of Ukrainian athletes and migrant footballers, who are declared in the competition of the Ukrainian Premier League of the season 2021-2022, is analyzed. Conclusions. Analysis of the financial value of professional football clubs of the Ukrainian Premier League in relation to the migration of football players allows us to state that the leaders of the sports rating are the most financially capable teams: «Shakhtar» (Donetsk) and «Dynamo» (Kyiv), with a total the transfer value of the players is € 179,700,000 and € 136,100,000 respectively. The average cost of a migrant player in the leading professional football clubs of the Ukrainian Premier League «Shakhtar» (Donetsk) is 8,800,000 €, «Dynamo» (Kyiv) ‒ 3,420,000 €. Analysis of the transfer value of domestic athletes and migrant footballers in the application letters of the Ukrainian Premier League shows the absence of direct and inverse linear relationships, which suggests the presence of complex multilevel dependencies that require processing by more complex mathematical and statistical methods and preliminary grouping of available experimental data

scholarly journals The English Premier League Internet Broadcasting Rights Selling Model – Historical Study

GYMNASIUM ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol XIX (2) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Christos Koutroumanides ◽  
Panagiotis Alexopoulos ◽  
Athanasios Laios ◽  
John Douvis
Keyword(s):  
New Record ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Premier League ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Selling Process ◽  
English Premier League ◽  
Mobile Broadcasting

In the last years football clubs games broadcasting rights selling process, internet and mobile phone packages are included too. Internet is a widely accepted and useful mean of communication, something that was immediately recognized by the football authorities and clubs in all countries. Same ways, the gradually increased use of smart phones led to the inclusion of the mobile broadcasting rights in the total selling rights packages. The latest rights auction is of paramount importance, not only because the rights value will break a new record, but also because among the interested parties and bidders are some of the world’s tech giants such as Amazon, Google and Netflix. Live streaming Premier League matches looks to be the next frontier and PL hope tech giants like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Netflix will enter the auction and push the price of the UK package above its current standing of £5.14billion

Internationalisation and branding strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 747-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Hinson ◽  
Ellis Osabutey ◽  
John Paul Kosiba ◽  
Frederick O. Asiedu
Keyword(s):  
Brand Equity ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
English Premier League

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyse how professional football clubs have attained success with internationalisation and branding strategies in foreign markets. Design/methodology/approach Based on an inductive approach, 27 semi-structured interviews were conducted to analyse the perceptions of Ghanaian fans of four English Premier League teams. Findings The findings of this study highlight that the strength of professional football brand equity is jointly determined by the level of brand awareness, brand loyalty and perceived quality. However, increasing competition in international markets require professional football clubs to clearly define their marketing strategies to improve how fans perceive them. Originality/value This paper is one of the few studies to use country-of-origin paradigm and signalling theory to explain football brand equity building, thereby extending the earlier work of Chanavat and Bodet (2009). Its empirical focus on Africa is also unique and provides evidence to suggest that global marketers have the opportunity to capitalise on market expansion opportunities in developing economies.

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