Statistical comparison of Czech and Danish football leagues: market value, age, and nationality of players

Abstract

Football is one of the most popular sports disciplines and the use of statistical methods to analyze sports data is of great interest not only to coaches but also to researchers. Football clubs mainly use the services of specialized companies for data analysis. With the use of statistical analysis, it is possible to find out interesting information and relationships that are not possible by simply observing the game or the players. There is a great interest in sports data analysis among football clubs. The aim of this paper is to use statistical analysis to compare two professional European football competitions and to identify their main similarities and differences in three highlighted areas -age of players, national composition of competitions and market value of players. Statistical data analysis methods were used to test the research questions formulated in this research. The database used was created based on variables obtained from InStat and Transfermarkt. The statistical program IBM SPSS Stastistics 28 was used for the calculations.