Cost efficiency of French rugby clubs

Barros, Carlos Pestana; Bertrand, Gaël; Botti, Laurent; Tainsky, Scott

doi:10.1080/00036846.2014.907484

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“…Based on several key performance indicators, it was suggested that playing style in Top14 is characterized by very few opportunities to spread the ball wide and to play a fast-paced game [ 31 ]. In addition, French Top14 is one of the oldest and more successful championship in the northern hemisphere in terms of attendance [ 32 ], as well as one of the highest paid rugby domestic league [ 33 ] attracting many elite foreign players. These characteristics could have made Top14 more resilient in terms of HA, less sensitive to negative contextual variables and more sensitive to positive ones (i.e., scoring first).…”

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A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze Home Advantage during COVID-19 Pandemic Period with Regards to Margin of Victory and to Different Tournaments in Professional Rugby Union Competitions

Ungureanu

Lupo

Brustio

2021

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Home advantage (HA) is the tendency for sporting teams to perform better at their home ground than away from home, it is also influenced by the crowd support, and its existence has been well established in a wide range of team sports including rugby union. Among all the HA determinants, the positive contribute of the crowd support on the game outcome can be analyzed in the unique pandemic situation of COVID-19. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to analyze the HA of professional high-level rugby club competition from a complex dynamical system perspective before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. HA was analyzed in northern and southern hemisphere rugby tournaments with (2013–2019) and without (2020/21) crowd support by the means of the exhaustive chi-square automatic interaction detection (CHAID) decision trees (DT). HA was mitigated by the crowd absence especially in closed games, although differences between tournaments emerged. Both for northern and southern hemisphere, the effect of playing without the crowd support had a negative impact on the home team advantage. These findings evidenced that in ghost games, where differences in the final score were less than a converted try (7 points), HA has disappeared.

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A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze Home Advantage during COVID-19 Pandemic Period with Regards to Margin of Victory and to Different Tournaments in Professional Rugby Union Competitions

Ungureanu

Lupo

Brustio

2021

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“…Par rapport au football, peu d'études académiques se sont intéressées au modèle économique du rugby professionnel (Barros et al, 2014 ;Andreff, 2015). En France, l'étude annuelle Jurisport 4 , résume les chiffres clés des sports professionnels en équipe à partir des rapports des régulateurs (Direction Nationale du Contrôle de Gestion).…”

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“…Alors que le football professionnel français est devenu « télé-dépendant », le rugby professionnel serait plutôt « sponsor-dépendant ». Barros et al (2014) montrent l'importance d'une stratégie basée sur un sponsoring prévisible et stable pour améliorer l'efficience financière à long terme dans le rugby français. Même si le championnat de France de rugby s'est professionnalisé depuis 1995 (Moles, 1998), le modèle de financement du rugby professionnel français serait dans une phase de transition entre le modèle SSSL et le modèle MCMMG, mais avec un poids relatif plus élevé des sponsors.…”

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Le Rugby Professionnel Masculin Français Sous Le Choc Economique De La Covid-19

Yann¹,

Delbrouque²

2023

Management Et Organisations Du Sport

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The Covid-19 crisis had an impact on French professional and amateur sport with the suspension of competitions from 12th March 2020 and the premature and definitive closure of the 2019/20 season. This was the case for French men's professional rugby, for which the TOP 14 (1st division) and PRO D2 (2nd division) professional championships were suspended and then definitively closed. On 1st March 2020, the French National Rugby League (LNR) voted for a season without a championship winner or promoted and relegated teams, and with rankings stopped at day 17 for the TOP 14 and day 23 for the PRO D2. Based on academic work carried out on amateur football (Carin & Andreff, 2020) and professional basketball (Carin, Desquennes, Jaworski and Andreff, 2021), this study focuses on the economic models of French professional men's rugby clubs, their evolution over a period from 2008/09 to 2018/19 and the economic effects of the Covid-19 crisis on clubs’ finances. Access to the financial data of professional clubs in the first two divisions and exchanges with the Direction Nationale d'Aide au Contrôle de Gestion (DNACG) allowed us to better understand the distribution of revenues, expenses and financial performance before the Covid crisis and to assess the short-term economic effects of this crisis on the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons. In addition to the economic effects on the first two seasons of the Covid- 19, this study helps to highlight the crisis management of French professional rugby sports organisations. La crise de la Covid-19 a impacté le sport professionnel et amateur français avec la suspension des compétitions à partir du 12 mars 2020 puis l’arrêt prématuré et définitif de la saison 2019/20. C’est le cas du rugby professionnel masculin français pour lequel les championnats professionnels du TOP 14 (1re division) et de la PRO D2 (2e division) ont été suspendus puis clôturés définitivement. Le 1er mars 2020, la Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) votait pour une saison sans vainqueur de championnat ni équipes promues et reléguées avec un classement arrêté à la 17ème journée pour le TOP 14 et à la 23ème journée pour la PRO D2. En s’appuyant sur les travaux académiques menés sur le football amateur (Carin & Andreff, 2020), sur le basket professionnel (Carin, Desquennes, Jaworski et Andreff, 2021), cette recherche s’intéresse aux modèles économiques des clubs français professionnels masculins de rugby, à leur évolution sur la période de 2008/09 à 2018/19 et aux effets économiques de la Covid-19 sur les finances des clubs.L’accès aux données financières des clubs professionnels des deux premières divisions et des échanges avec la Direction Nationale d’Aide au Contrôle de Gestion (DNACG) permettent de mieux cerner la répartition des revenus, des charges et la performance financière d’avant la crise liée à la Covid-19 et d’apprécier les effets économiques à court terme de cette crise sur les saisons 2019/20 et 2020/21. Outre les effets économiques sur les deux premières saisons de la Covid-19, cette étude contribue à mettre en évidence la gestion de crise des organisations sportives de rugby professionnel français.

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“…Specifically, in the case of soccer, the SPF has been used to measure the efficiency of English Premier League (Dawson, Dobson, & Gerrard, 2000) and Spanish La Liga (Barros, Garcia-del-Barrio, & Leach, 2009) clubs. Barros, Bertrand, Botti, and Tainsky (2014) report that French rugby clubs with the largest budgets were not the most efficient.…”

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Soccer Clubs and Diminishing Returns: The Case of Paris Saint-Germain

Hogan¹,

Massey²

2021

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Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), one of France’s top soccer clubs, was bought by Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) in 2011. Since then, the club’s expenditure has risen precipitously, as have its victories. In this paper, we ask whether this represents value for money. We find that the efficiency of PSG did not deteriorate following the takeover. However, while PSG operated close to the production frontier in terms of converting resources to points, it scored vastly more points than was necessary to win the league. We estimate that PSG spent €140m more than was necessary to win the French league in 2016/2017. Since 2011, PSG is estimated to have overspent by up to €600m. This expenditure could be thought of as being merely the price of creditable performance at a European level, but we show that it has brought less success than would be expected.

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Cost efficiency of French rugby clubs

Cited by 7 publications

References 51 publications

A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze Home Advantage during COVID-19 Pandemic Period with Regards to Margin of Victory and to Different Tournaments in Professional Rugby Union Competitions

A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze Home Advantage during COVID-19 Pandemic Period with Regards to Margin of Victory and to Different Tournaments in Professional Rugby Union Competitions

Le Rugby Professionnel Masculin Français Sous Le Choc Economique De La Covid-19

Soccer Clubs and Diminishing Returns: The Case of Paris Saint-Germain

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