As a result of the growth of the football players' transfer market and the increased availability
of data, scholars from different fields have been investigating the topic of the empirical …

Football players represent the key assets of football clubs, and their value determination is
therefore at the heart of clubs' investment and decision‐making processes. Unsurprisingly …

Billions of euros are invested every year by professional football clubs for the recruitment of
players. How do market actors decide prices? This paper presents an econometric model …

Institutional and legal reforms applied in the context of sports competitions often provoke
structural changes that can be empirically investigated. Using a data set of 560 observations …

Purpose The presented study aims to identify and classify the value factors that influence the
value of football clubs from the stakeholder perspective, while also discussing how these …

Google Trends is a valuable tool for measuring popularity since it collects a large amount of
information related to Google searches. However, Google Trends has been underused by …

This paper contributes to understanding the financial situation of European football clubs
and the role of their media visibility and historical brand status. By estimating production and …

ABSTRACT Purpose The Norwegian football app FotMob (https://www. fotmob. com/) has
recently introduced a new and novel composite performance variable or index. The present …

Purpose The aim of this work is to explain the final negotiated prices for some of the most
famous transfers of football players over the last twelve years (2007–2018) …

Clubs allegedly inflated the transfer fees paid for the acquisition or disposal of football
players' rights to boost their balance sheet. The Federal Court of Appeal ruled the case on …