Academic interest in the economics of professional team sports dates back as far as the mid-
1950s. Since then, many books and journal articles have been written on the subject. Much …

This article introduces the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) bootstrap procedure to analyze
the technical efficiency of Brazilian first league football clubs. For comparison purpose the …

Professional European football clubs have been hypothesized to maximize sporting or
financial objectives. The authors analyze the impact of various ownership structures on the …

This article assesses the sporting performance of Spanish professional football teams at
competition level, namely, League, King's Cup, and European competitions (Champions …

This paper analyses efficiency drivers of a representative sample of Spanish football clubs
by means of the two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) procedure proposed by Simar …

Recent research has linked red shirts to sporting success. In this article, we analyse the
relationship between the colour red and sporting performance in the Spanish Professional …

In the paper we evaluate the efficiency of French football clubs (Ligue 1) from 2004 to 2007
using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with «Assurance Region». Then, we study the …

This article uses data for Italian Serie A to estimate a production function for the league and
the relative efficiency of the clubs playing in it. It utilizes a panel data set comprising season …

Purpose–This paper aims to evaluate the impact of a mid‐season change of manager on the
sporting performance of professional football teams in the First Division of the Spanish …

Research question: While considerable research on production and efficiency is mostly on
all European football leagues, corresponding evidence relating to the Italian Serie A is …