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 presents a novel model for evaluating the performance of field players in football.
Based upon Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), we employ a non-concave metafrontier …

In this empirical study, we apply bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) models
under variable returns to scale to examine both the environmental and technical efficiencies …

Purpose In the current economic climate, the huge rise in the levels of debt incurred by
professional football clubs challenges the need to improve their efficiency levels. Hence …

This article aims to evaluate the sports performance of teams that have participated in the
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League (UCL) during the last …

Purpose–The purpose of this research paper is to prove the superiority of a two‐stage data
envelopment analysis compared to a one‐stage approach in measuring a football club's …

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 …

This paper analyzes how European football clubs' current value and debt levels influence
their performance. The Simar and Wilson (J Econometrics, 136: 31–64, 2007) procedure is …

Research question: The research aims to identify the determinants of 'coopetitive'strategies
compared to more competitive or cooperative ones, while examining the contingency of …