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The Champions League Final and the German football business model: Part I

05, 05, 13
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German football fans are revelling in the success of the Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, and rightly so- they have dominated the Champions League this season and their defeats of Barcelona and Real Madrid respectively were spectacular. It’s not surprising that people can derive n
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Stability and insolvency in European football

03, 05, 13
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One of my favourite facts in Soccernomics is that 85 of the clubs that played in the four English professional divisions in 1923 still existed in 2008, and 75 of them still played in the top 4 divisions. That’s stability for you. I’ve just carried out a similar exercise at
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Are sports clubs better than normal companies at using data?

16, 04, 13
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Here’s a guest post from Rob Symes, who has just made a documentary film called Outside View on sports and data:  “When the Houston Astros take the baseball field for Jackie Robinson day on April 16, a former NASA engineer will be paying close attention. Sig Mejdal, the As
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State aid and European football

05, 04, 13
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The announcement this week about European Commission investigations into state aid cases in football represents an interesting development. I’m not enough of a Brussels insider to really understand it all, but it’s beginning to appear as if the Commission and UEFA are working in tande
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Does diversity within a team produce success?

04, 04, 13
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The most successful Arsenal side of the Arsene Wenger era, the Invincibles who won the 2004 Premier League title and went unbeaten throughout the season, contained two English regular starters: Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole. Bayern Munich, set to be the first team in a major European l
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The peculiar parallels of European football and banking

03, 04, 13
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The Guardian newspaper published this blog post by me today. Worth looking at some of the comments made there too. The Champions League quarter final between Borussia Dortmund and Malaga is a metaphor for the economic and political fault lines of Europe. Dortmund represents solid Germ
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Dreaming of a super league

15, 03, 13
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It’s hard to know what to make of The Times story run this week on the alleged intention of Qatar to create a Dream Football League, involving 16 of Europe’s biggest clubs in a summer tournament in exchange for a fee of €200 million per club. The story has now been vigorously denied b
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Soccernomics as therapy

06, 03, 13
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Extraordinary video footage showing John Terry reading Soccernomics. Wouldn’t you like to know what he makes of the chapter on penalty kicks? I know I would. If you remember, he missed in the 2008 Champions League Final, which must be haunting even for someone of his well known
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On the brink of Financial Fair Play…

05, 02, 13
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Yesterday UEFA published the fifth edition of The European Club Licensing Benchmarking Report which covers the financial year 2011. On the eve of the full implementation of Financial Fair Play (FFP) it makes pretty interesting reading. Essentially the story told is that the financial
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The Fix Is In but the Jury is Out

04, 02, 13
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Europol’s dramatic announcement today that 425 players and officials are suspected of involvement in fixing 380 games over the last five years generating €8m of betting profits and €2m of illicit payments has caused a stir. But as presented so far, there’s something not quite right ab
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Welcome to The Blog

We hope it will be a venue for some of our new thinking on football, money and data. We wrote the book Soccernomics because we believed that systematic data analysis could tell us interesting things about football. Our collaboration is a match of science and art, matching the numbers to a convincing story, something which we have to do in our day-jobs as a journalist and an academic.

Soccernomics had done well in the UK, the US and around the world since it was published in 2009, and we published a second edition in the spring of 2012 with three new chapters telling more stories using yet more data. But there’s no reason to stop there. Thus far, researchers have only scratched the surface of the football data mines. One of the aims of this blog is to talk about some of the research that is going on, and some of the uses to which that data is being put. For this new project, we’re also joined by journalist and consultant Ben Lyttleton, our partner in the Soccernomics consultancy.


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From the Blog

  • Abolition of the transfer system
  • Forecasting the final table for the Premier League 19/20 season: Revisited
  • Forecasting the final table for the Premier League 19/20 season
  • Covid-19 and football club insolvency
  • Soccer Analytics update

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How Liverpool Misread Moneyball

On Racism in Football

NBC’S Premier League Rights Deal

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