The Importance of Club Revenues for Player Salaries and Transfer Expenses—How Does the Coronavirus Outbreak (COVID-19) Impact the English Premier League?

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption in the sports industry and raised question of whether football is based on a sustainable business model. Using data from English Premier League (EPL), we develop regression model to achieve two objectives. First, examine relationship between different revenue sources (TV revenues, match commercial revenues) main cost drivers professional clubs (player salaries transfer expenses). Second, seek predict likely impact major market downturn such as EPL. Our results suggest that TV revenues are by far most important source income for player values, followed revenues. We salaries, expenses will all decrease forthcoming EPL season, 2020/2021. magnitude reduction depends coronavirus scenario ranges −20.4% −9.5% −26.7% −12.4% values. study seeks explore relative three unprecedented growth net last decades. In addition, our adds understanding pandemic’s expected