A Model to Explain Support in Spanish Football

25 Pages Posted: 21 Feb 2006 Last revised: 3 Mar 2020

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Ángel Barajas

University of Vigo - Faculty of Business Administration and Tourism; affiliation not provided to SSRN

Liz Crolley

University of Liverpool - Management School

Date Written: September 2005

Abstract

This paper analyses the factors which affect support and influence revenues in Spanish professional football clubs. It focuses on the relationships between attendance and different sets of variables: those that relate to the socio-economic environment, the quality of product (results) and the quality of means of production (team squad). The main conclusions are, firstly, that the quality of the squad influences attendance through its performance on the pitch, secondly, that the level of attendance is explained by the population of the province in which the club is based, and by both the current and historical performances of the team, and thirdly, that the club's sporting revenues can be explained by their attendances. Given the importance of support, and in particular attendance, to the revenues of football clubs, the conceptual model developed in this article might contribute significantly to the estimation of cash-flows in football clubs.

Keywords: football (soccer) economics, attendance, sport performance, revenues.

JEL Classification: L83, L21, M20

Suggested Citation

Barajas, Ángel and Crolley, Liz, A Model to Explain Support in Spanish Football (September 2005). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=884107 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.884107

Ángel Barajas (Contact Author)

University of Vigo - Faculty of Business Administration and Tourism ( email )

Campus as Lagoas
Ourense, Ourense 32004
Spain
0034 988368713 (Phone)
0034 988368923 (Fax)

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Liz Crolley

University of Liverpool - Management School ( email )

Eleanor Rathbone Building
Bedford Street North
Liverpool L69 7ZA
United Kingdom
0044 151 795 3809 (Phone)
0044 151 795 3007 (Fax)

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