All football teams that compete within the F. A. Premier League possess an academy, whose objective is to produce more and better home-grown players that are capable of playing professionally. These young players spend a large amount of time with their coach, but little is known about player's perception of the coach-athlete relationship within F. A. Premier League Academies. The objectives of ...

the aim of this study was to examine the economic position of stadiums and professional sport teams on index of income of those people in related jobs. this study was application in terms of the goal and the method was description-library-analysis. statistical population consisted of all employees in related jobs in 8 big cities in iran that had a football team in premier league in 2010-2012. s...

Background. Brand Personality (BP) is one of the most commonly used concepts in marketing literature, and academicians and marketers believe in its benefits. Today, brand personality plays an important role in strategic management and it is considered as one of the most important tactics of an organization to gain a Competitive Advantage (CA). Objectives. This paper aims to investigate the fac...

Despite the increasing importance and popularity of association football forecasting systems there is no agreed method of evaluating their accuracy. We have classified the evaluators used into two broad categories: those which consider only the prediction for the observed outcome; and those which consider the predictions for the unobserved as well as observed outcome. We highlight fundamental i...

Abstract Competitive balance is of much interest in the sports analytics literature and beyond. We develop a statistical network model based on an extension stochastic block to assess between teams league. represent outcome all matches football season as dense with nodes identified by categorical edges representing each game win, draw, or loss. The main focus motivation for this paper issue com...

Abstract Analyzing football score data with statistical techniques, we investigate how the not purely random, but highly co-operative nature of the game is reflected in averaged properties such as the probability distributions of scored goals for the home and away teams. As it turns out, especially the tails of the distributions are not well described by the Poissonian or binomial model resulti...

There is an increasing awareness of the importance environment in academy players’ development, yet limited research has investigated perceptions their talent development environments (TDEs). This study focused on soccer TDE and compared across English categorization (CAT) system. A total 136 U.K.-based male players ( M age = 17.7, SD 1.03 years) representing all four categories (1 highest to 4...