A Composite Index to Assess the Top European Football Clubs in 2014

The study addresses the need for assessment of football clubs through a single integrating index, representative for the industry. The research goals target the aggregating of a set of relevant sport, economic and social variables in a composite index with statistical relevance. To this effect, we used tests of the relevance of data and factor analysis to determine the weights. The expected results consist of the ranking of analysed clubs and their grouping into different value clusters. This is particularly important in representing the upper echelons of European football and can become a future benchmark for experts in the field