We investigated the impacts of president longevity and the geographic orientation of owners on team performance and on … tier of French men's football over the 1994-2016 period (n = 4918 observations). To do so, we used a counterfactual based … on the evolution of the team position over the last three games leading to the leader change and estimate linear …

The goals of this paper are first to identify why professional football clubs replace their head coach and, second, to … investigate the effect of coach dismissal on team performance. To do that, we propose a new method for assessing the performance … French Ligue 1 football teams over the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 seasons. We find that coach dismissal is the result of a drop …