BACKGROUND Talented football players are expected to overcome large training and match loads, indicating a high weekly level of physical activity (PA). AIMS With the use of accelerometers, the aim of this study was to objectively describe the players' total time spent in moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA), vigorous PA (VPA) and very vigorous PA (VVPA) per day in 1 week. Since high-intensity PA ha...

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...

Football is one of the most rooted sports worldwide attracting millions of spectators, but clubs face an increasing competition of other leisure activities. Understanding how to increase spectators' behavioral intentions towards their favorite football teams is paramount for sport managers, given that a behavioral intention represents a measure of how much a person is willing to engage in a spe...

Association football is becoming increasingly competitive and the financial stakes involved are causing football clubs and football leagues to become more professional. Over the past 25 years, club budgets have grown enormously due to ticket sale revenues, broadcasting revenues, merchandising, and prize money. Recently, player tracking systems were introduced and are producing overwhelming amou...

Bruun and colleagues [1] provide a timely and thorough insight into the potential health opportunities on offer via the structural organisation of football associations, football clubs and the global grip of the beautiful game. Their extensive evaluation framework represents an important clarion call for those concerned with football-led health improvement. At the same time, it is wise to consi...

The Covid-19 pandemic has had huge ramifications on professional football. This commentary focuses the impact of mental health footballers. Specifically, footballers within English Premier League, Football FA Women’s Super League and Championship. considers a holistic approach to health, environment football, career transitions critical moments health. intention is stimulate discussion further ...

Sport, in particular football, constitutes one of the most dynamic, sociologically illuminating domains of globalization. This paper examines the globalization of football with particular reference to Robertson's theorizations of global processes. We examine football's cultural globalization through the concept of 'glocalization', which highlights the interdependence of local and global process...

This study reviews the impact of Spanish Transparency Law (TL) 19/2013 and Union European Football Associations’ (UEFA) Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations, on transparency accountability professional football clubs, examines influence financial performance clubs. The uses a Panel Data methodology (FGLS) to compare international index for clubs (INFUT) with criteria UEFA’s FFP as measure soci...

This research has been conducted by the aim of analysis of the relation of inefficient Attitude and social undermining of the employees of football clubs in Kerman. The research method is descriptive-correlative. The statistical population of this research includes all employees of teenage, youth and adult employees of Kerman city in 2017 with the total number of 192 from which 153 replied to t...