Money troubles and problems ahead? The financial health of professional women's football clubs in England

Clarkson, Beth G.; Plumley, Daniel; Philippou, Christina; Wilson, Rob; Webb, Tom

doi:10.1108/sbm-10-2022-0088

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“…The implementation of promotion and relegation stimulates competition among clubs and leagues, while concurrently elevating financial risk for the participating clubs. In open leagues, clubs invest in talent (and wages) to maintain performance, and it is usually the larger, more established clubs that attain superior on-field results (Clarkson et al, 2023). Dietl et al (2008) demonstrate that clubs tend to allocate higher investments when engaged in an open league as opposed to a closed one.…”

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The competitive balance of UEFA and CONMEBOL football leagues: On managing the number of teams in league design

Triguero‐Ruiz,

Avila‐Cano

2024

Manage Decis Econ

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This article augments the literature on the analysis of competitive balance, encompassing its measurement, comparisons across leagues and seasons, and ramifications for league management. Central to our examination is the notion of competitive balance, which is intimately tied to the concentration concept. This concept can be depicted as a dual metric—capturing both inequality and the number of competing teams. Historically, its magnitude has been gauged using standardised measures of inequality and concentration. Among these, the Herfindahl–Hirschman index and its subsequent refinements stand out. We employ the distance‐to‐competitive‐balance index, which, contingent upon the metric space chosen, qualifies either as an inequality or concentration measure. Our analysis spans the 2009/2010 to 2018/2019 seasons for both the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) championships in the pre‐COVID‐19 era. We discern a tangible and significant correlation between the competitive equilibrium of leagues and the performance metrics of national teams. Both the disparities in strengths of teams and the number of participating teams emerged as paramount variables shaping this competitive balance. Further, we delineate the elasticities of competitive balance relative to these determinants. Our insights bear implications for designing football championship structures and delineating sports policies; thus, they are valuable for relevant sports governing bodies and federations. The strategic decision to enlarge team count vis‐à‐vis curtailing discrepancies in team competencies is nuanced, varying across federations and confederations. The Big Five European leagues display heightened sensitivity to inequality factors (with interventions such as financial fair play, salary caps or revenue distribution yielding pronounced effects), whereas for CONMEBOL, elasticity in relation to team count holds greater significance.

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The competitive balance of UEFA and CONMEBOL football leagues: On managing the number of teams in league design

Triguero‐Ruiz,

Avila‐Cano

2024

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Only a game? The politics of football, the English Premier League, and its wider international relations: A critical research agenda for the next 25 years

Webber

2024

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Despite its near-universal popularity, economic significance, and political power, football (or ‘soccer’) remains, save for a few notable exceptions, on the margins of political studies, international relations, and international political economy. This article, written to mark twenty-five years of the BJPIR, reflects upon the remarkable growth of the English Premier League during this same period, and considers how the conceptual toolkits of these disciplines might explain this growth trajectory and those fault-lines that have emerged as a result of its own dominant position across the globe. By building the case for those working within these disciplines to take seriously the politics, IR and IPE of football, this piece offers a research agenda designed to encourage colleagues to consider ways that their own scholarship might be extended to interrogate those power relations and various sites of political struggle that will be present within football over the next twenty-five years.

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Money troubles and problems ahead? The financial health of professional women's football clubs in England

Cited by 2 publications

References 43 publications

The competitive balance of UEFA and CONMEBOL football leagues: On managing the number of teams in league design

The competitive balance of UEFA and CONMEBOL football leagues: On managing the number of teams in league design

Only a game? The politics of football, the English Premier League, and its wider international relations: A critical research agenda for the next 25 years

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