Professional football clubs are unusual businesses, their performance judged on and off the field of play. This study is concerned with measuring the efficiency of clubs in the English Premier League. Information from clubs’ financial statements is used as a measure of corporate performance. To measure changes in efficiency and productivity the Malmquist non-parametric technique has been used. ...

Research question We identify the key components of business models (BMs) professional European football clubs, introducing a structured model approach to sport management and presenting BM taxonomy.Research methods To derive picture clubs’ BMs, we develop taxonomy in three iterations. In first step, conduct literature review. Second, analyse case studies subsequently examine 98 real-world obje...

INTRODUCTION A large proportion of children and adolescents participate in organised sport, making community sports clubs a promising setting to support healthy behaviours. To date, however, there have been few interventions conducted in junior sports clubs that have targeted health-promoting practices. The primary aim of this pilot study is to assess the potential effectiveness of an intervent...

BACKGROUND In Britain, young people continue to bear the burden of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) so efforts are required, especially among men, to encourage STI testing. The SPORTSMART study trialled an intervention that sought to achieve this by offering chlamydia and gonorrhoea test-kits to men attending amateur football clubs between October and December 2012. With football the high...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of male obesity is increasing, but men are less likely than women to attend existing weight management programmes. We have taken a novel approach to reducing perceived barriers to weight loss for men by using professional football (soccer) clubs to encourage participation in a weight management group programme, gender-sensitised in content and style of delivery. Footba...

the aim of this study was to survey football talent identification problems. all coaches of the basic football teams of tehran asia vision league in adolescent and youth classes formed the statistical population of this study. 42 coaches were selected as the sample based on morgan table. because there was not a standard questionnaire for this scope, a questionnaire with 5-point likert scale was...