BACKGROUND Despite the crucial role of referees in a soccer match, few researchers have targeted the injury profile of referees in their studies. Understanding the incidence, nature, and pattern of injuries could provide important information for educational and preventative efforts at the international level. HYPOTHESIS The incidence rate and patterns of acute injuries to official referees o...

The aim of this study is to explore the evolving social media marketing strategies football clubs involved in English Premier League (EPL), a constantly changing sporting and digital landscape. Interviews conducted with practitioners from range revealed that has been fully adopted as key strategic channel. Other insights include importance trust being able harness collective passionate fans on ...

OBJECTIVE To compare injury risk in elite football played on artificial turf compared with natural grass. DESIGN Prospective two-cohort study. SETTING Male European elite football leagues. PARTICIPANTS 290 players from 10 elite European clubs that had installed third-generation artificial turf surfaces in 2003-4, and 202 players from the Swedish Premier League acting as a control group. ...

Research question Match day revenue is still an essential source of income for many professional sports clubs worldwide. This paper studies the determinants ticket pricing in English Premier League and examines whether to what extent stadium goers pay a premium sporting success spending by players’ labour market.Research methods We estimate regression models cheapest most expensive tickets play...

Sports analytics is on the rise, with many teams looking to use data science and machine learning algorithms augment their research boost team performance. This especially true in case of Football Clubs. In this work, we have taken statistics matches for each from five major football leagues. These include English Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1. We two kinds classificatio...

Purpose In this work, the authors address a gap in literature on contribution of dynamic capabilities and internal contingencies to performance highly competitive environment. Design/methodology/approach The use data from Premier Football (soccer) League Portugal over ten years. This league works as laboratorial setting enables identify influences variables study. Findings find evidence that hu...

A quantitative measure of “match importance” is useful in a number of decision problems, for example: as a metric in tournament design; for selecting matches for broadcasting; for scheduling matches in a tournament; and for assigning referees. To date measures of match importance used in such analyses have been relatively naïve. We discuss a general measure that considers the effect of a partic...

Unhealthy behaviours represent modifiable causes of non-communicable disease. In men, concern focuses on those (i) demonstrating the poorest health, exacerbated by a lack of awareness of the risks that their lifestyles pose and (ii) who neither consult their doctor nor use health services. Classed as 'hard-to-engage', distinctive strategies are needed to reach these men. Impact and process eval...