Effectiveness of UEFA's regulation for European football financial management: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis

J Martín-Magdalena, S De los Ríos-Sastre, R Redondo… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Abstract Background The Union of European Football Association's (UEFA) Financial Fair
Play (FFP) regulations are a topic of ongoing debate. This study aims to evaluate and …

Soft budget constraints in professional football

RK Storm, K Nielsen - European sport management quarterly, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Professional football in Europe is characterized by persistent deficits and growing debts
among the majority of the top league clubs. Despite these problems, the clubs have an …

Insolvencies in professional football: a German Sonderweg?

S Szymanski, D Weimar - International Journal of Sport Finance, 2019 - muse.jhu.edu
There is a common perception that the German football system is financially more stable
than other European football league systems. However, we show that the German football …

A combined methodology for the concurrent evaluation of the business, financial and sports performance of football clubs: the case of France

E Galariotis, C Germain, C Zopounidis - Annals of Operations Research, 2018 - Springer
The recent transformation of football clubs to businesses and the challenges posed by this
transformation motivate us to study the financial, business, and sports performance of …

Entry into exit: insolvency in English professional football

S Szymanski - Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This study uses a unique database of financial accounts for English football clubs between
1974 and 2010 to examine the process by which firms fail, which in this context means …

[PDF][PDF] The financial impact of (foreign) private investors on team investments and profits in professional football: Empirical evidence from the premier league

M Rohde, C Breuer - Applied Economics and Finance, 2016 - researchgate.net
US owners at Manchester United, Arsenal London, and Liverpool; Arab owners at
Manchester City; Russian owners at Chelsea London–the top football clubs from England …

The impact of UEFA financial fair play on player expenditures, sporting success and financial performance: Evidence from the Italian top league

P Dimitropoulos, V Scafarto - European Sport Management …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Research question: In this study we empirically test the following hypotheses regarding the
impact of financial fair play (FFP) on Italian first-division clubs: 1) FFP works as a …

Insolvency in French soccer: The case of payment failure

N Scelles, S Szymanski… - Journal of Sports …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines insolvency (payment failure) in the top three divisions of French
soccer. Between 1970 and 2014, we observed 79 cases of insolvency arising from …

Corporate governance and earnings management in the European football industry

P Dimitropoulos - European Sport Management Quarterly, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The scope of this paper is to analyze the impact of corporate governance quality (namely
board size, board independence, managerial ownership, institutional ownership and CEO …