This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue … and conceded goals ('goal difference') as a measure of the overall success of a football team, we observe a significant … that a team's performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue …

that influence football teams to replace their coaches by using panel data for 33 US National Football League's (NFL) teams … Raiders team has changed its coaches 11 times in 32 years while Tom Landry led Dallas Cowboys for 28 years from 1960 to 1988 … (while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity) suggesting that organizations learn from changes. Also, football teams are …