Kieran Maguire (2020): The Price of Football. Understanding Football Club Finance, Newcastle: Agenda Publishing

The performance of football club managers: skill or luck?

Identifying top football players and springboard clubs from a football player collaboration and club transfer networks

We consider all players and clubs in top twenty world football leagues in the last fifteen seasons. The purpose of this paper is to reveal top football players and identify springboard clubs. To do that, we construct two separate weighted networks. Player collaboration network consists of players, that are connected to each other if they ever played together at the same club. In directed club t...

The Effect of Club Social Responsibility on the Supportive Behavior of the Football Fans Brand: (Case Study of Persepolis Tehran Club)

Nowadays, social responsibility is not limited to specific organization, and clubs and sports teams have included various forms of social responsibility in their goals and are involved in their implementation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of club social responsibility on the supportive behavior of the brand of football fans with the mediating role of attitude: The mod...

The Football of Logic

An analogy is made between two rather different domains, namely: logic, and football (or soccer). Starting from a comparative table between the two activities, an alternative explanation of logic is given in terms of players, ball, goal, and the like. Our main thesis is that, just as the task of logic is preserving truth from premises to the conclusion, footballers strive to keep the ball as fa...

The Economics of Football