.../approach Using a sample of English Premier League clubs during the 2000/01 to 2023/24 seasons, we investigate differences in club characteristics (size, newly promoted, past performance) and club decisions (manager changes, transfer expenditure, wages) between relegated clubs and nearly relegated clubs...

...Rory Bishop; Aaron C.T. Smith; Daniel Read Purpose This article provides a plain language commentary on the distributive equity structure of the English Premier League (EPL) with the aim of introducing sport business practitioners to a foundational challenge facing professional leagues...

... football clubs. Design/methodology/approach A 15-year panel data set of English Premier League (EPL) clubs is examined, many of which have employed corporate diversification strategies. Measures for related business diversification (RBD) and unrelated business diversification (UBD) as well...

...Clive Beggs; Alexander John Bond Purpose Despite being a widely used management technique, cumulative sum (CUSUM) analysis remains almost unheard of in professional sport. To address this, CUSUM analysis of soccer match data from the English Premier League (EPL) was performed. The primary...

... methodologies to the study of shirt sponsorships of football clubs, utilizing more than 300 sponsorships of every team that has competed in the English Premier League (EPL) over the past 25 years. Findings The analysis of the lifetimes of shirt sponsorships provides several insights for those employed...

...Robert Wilson; Daniel Plumley; Girish Ramchandani Purpose The purpose of this paper is three‐fold. First, to explore the relationship between the financial and sporting performance of clubs competing in the English Premier League (EPL). Second, to investigate the effect of different models of EPL...