Introduction Excessive alcohol consumption is responsible for considerable harm from chronic disease and injury. Within most developed countries, members of sporting clubs consume alcohol at levels above that of communities generally. Despite the potential benefits of interventions to address alcohol consumption in sporting clubs, there have been no randomised controlled trials to test the effe...

BACKGROUND Previously, no difference in acute injury rate has been found when playing football on artificial turf (AT) compared with natural grass (NG). AIM To compare acute injury rates in professional football played on AT and NG at the individual player level; and to compare, at club level, acute and overuse injury rates between clubs that have AT at their home venue (AT clubs) and clubs t...

Professional association football is a game of talent. The success of a professional club hinges largely on its ability of assembling the best team. Building on a dataset of player transfer records among more than 400 clubs in 24 world-wide top class leagues from 2011 to 2015, this study aims to relate a club's success to its activities in the player transfer market from a network perspective. ...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain the reasons behind players not participating in a sports safety research project. METHODS During the preseason, 10 Australian football clubs volunteered 23 teams to participate in a protective equipment randomised controlled trial, the Australian Football Injury Prevention Project (AFIPP). All players from these teams were invited to participate. Players who did not agr...

From the last decade of the twentieth century, professional football has become a transnational global business in which financial profits are as important as sports successes (1). Being a full occupational category, professional football relies on a diversity of stakeholders including among others players, clubs, (inter)national governing bodies, sponsors and sport ministries (1). Despite the ...

With the industrialization of football, not only sporting success clubs, but also their financial performance has become subjects discussion. The aim this study is to compare five major football clubs in UEFA by comparing liquidity, leverage and profitability ratios for 2015-2019 period. data obtained from clubs' websites annual reports. It concluded that Manchester City FC highest while Juvent...

Schreuder, J.A.M., Combinatorial aspects of construction of competition Dutch Professional Football Leagues, Discrete Applied Mathematics 35 (1992) 301-312. Competitions are defined as a set of meetings between a number of clubs at preset dates under preset rules. Such a problem can be divided in two subproblems: firstly developing a Home-Away schedule with oriented egde-colourings of complete ...

This thesis is a historical and critical examination of the development of the Premier League and the new consumption of football, which attempts to link these developments with wider post-Fordist transformations. The thesis argues that the transformation of labour relations in football set the Football League on a course of organic political economic development which privileged the big city c...