The Impact of Foreign Ownership in Czech Football

Özaydın, Selçuk

doi:10.5817/sts2021-1-6

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“…Likewise, according to Jones and Cook (2015), foreign direct investments in the English Premier League improve the clubs' sporting performance and decrease competitive balance in favor of the clubs with investors. € Ozaydın (2021) comes to a different conclusion for the first Czech division. Competitive balance improved after the investor's takeover of Slavia Prague, as other clubs benefitted from an increase in transfer activities.…”

Section: Investor Impactmentioning

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Decrypting the specifics of professional football club investments: Why? What? How? An integrative review

Kirsch,

Sauer,

Zülch

2024

SBM

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PurposeSince the beginning of the 2000s, investors have more frequently invested into professional football clubs, thereby radically changing the industry landscape. This review's purpose is to analyze and synthesize the state of research to understand motives, roles and implications of football club investors, and to provide recommendations for further research.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents an integrative literature review by identifying relevant English articles based on the search terms investor, owner, investment, ownership, shareholder and stakeholder in combination with soccer or football. Around 2,431 articles were reviewed. A total of 129 relevant articles was analyzed and synthesized within eight subject areas.FindingsInvestors in professional club football is a young research stream with a clear European focus. Investor motives and roles are diverse and implications are multidimensional. Investors mostly aim for indirect returns rather than pure profit- or win-maximization.Research limitations/implicationsFootball clubs comprise an own investment class for which the identified, unique specifics must be considered to develop a financially successful investment model. Thorough academic research of investors' inherent characteristics, investor-club pairings and the pillars of long-term strategies for successful investor-club liaisons are avenues of future research. Furthermore, the results illustrate the need for research outside of Europe.Originality/valueThe paper is the first systematic, integrative review of existing literature in the domain of equity investments into professional club football. The findings genuinely show that, depending on the investor type and ownership structure, investors have a wide impact in professional club football.

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Section: Investor Impactmentioning

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Decrypting the specifics of professional football club investments: Why? What? How? An integrative review

Kirsch,

Sauer,

Zülch

2024

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The Effects of Homegrown Rule on Efficiency of Sports Teams: Evidence from the English Premier League

Shin,

Chung,

Kim

2024

Service Science

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In the sports industry, governing bodies often have regulations for political and societal purposes. Despite their well-meaning intentions, the regulations often tend to be detrimental to stakeholders, including players and sports clubs. This study investigates the impact of the Football Association’s homegrown regulation on the operational efficiency of football clubs in the English Premier League (EPL). Using data envelopment analysis, we calculate the efficiency scores of 10 EPL clubs and compare them before and after the implementation of the regulation. Our results show that the efficiency of EPL football clubs decreased after the regulation was implemented, supporting the adverse effects of the homegrown rule. Our results further reveal that clubs were affected by the regulation to varying degrees. The distinct patterns of efficiency score changes in some clubs are explained by their unique managerial circumstances, such as ownership changes. Compliance costs, which vary depending on the level of each club’s youth academy system, also moderate the impact of the regulation. The findings of this study imply that imposing homegrown regulation on clubs unanimously without considering clubs’ different conditions leads to operational inefficiencies, generating adverse effects. This study has rich implications with respect to the productivity management of team sports. It also provides deep insights for the governing bodies trying to develop better policies. Funding: This work was supported by an Incheon National University Research Grant in 2021.

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Female Spectatorship and Unsportsmanlike Conduct at Football Stadiums: Case Study from the Czech Republic

Scholz¹,

Růžička²

2022

StS

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Football is the most popular team sport in the world. It is entertainment, primarily for men, but nowadays, it can be said that the number of women at football stadiums is steadily increasing. Given the long history of spectator sports events consumption, it is not a surprising fact that there have also been serious manifestations of spectator aggression. The paper aims to analyze the relationship between women visitors’ verbal and other expression and their violent behavior on an example of SK Slavia Prague football club. Primary data were collected by a questionnaire survey mainly at the Eden stadium and other selected Czech football stadiums in 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons. A total of 120 respondents (aged 25.01 ± 10.20 years old) participated in this research, and all of the respondents were attending the matches in a stand of home team supporters. We state that there are correlations between women visitors’ verbal and other expression and their violent behavior; e.g., the surveyed respondents had no experience with demolishing stadiums and other riots. The respondents also consider it to be the most serious activity at 82.58%. The racism display noted similar results. We state that the results are adequate for women visitors.

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The Impact of Foreign Ownership in Czech Football

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

Decrypting the specifics of professional football club investments: Why? What? How? An integrative review

Decrypting the specifics of professional football club investments: Why? What? How? An integrative review

The Effects of Homegrown Rule on Efficiency of Sports Teams: Evidence from the English Premier League

Female Spectatorship and Unsportsmanlike Conduct at Football Stadiums: Case Study from the Czech Republic

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