Table 1

Previous main studies regarding the relationship between soccer teams' performance and stock market reaction

AuthorsSampleYears of referenceMain results
Renneboog and Vanbrabant (2000) 19 UK soccer teams1995–1998Wins are associated with increases in price on the stock market, while the opposite is true for ties and especially for defeats
Zuber et al. (2005) 10 UK clubs1997–2000Match importance has a low significance in explaining the stock performances of the examined clubs
Palomino et al. (2009) 16 UK clubs1999–2002The stock market reacts to news about match results. Game results of small clubs generate much stronger market reactions than those of large clubs. No market reaction is observed after the release of betting information
Bell et al. (2012) 19 UK clubs2000–2008Several innovative proxies are used to assess the importance of matches, including goal and point surprise and expected degree of rivalry between the clubs involved in a specific match. While the former covariates are found to exert a positive and significant effect on stock market returns, the impact of rivalry appears to be modest
Duque and Ferreira (2005) 2 Portuguese clubs1998–2003Wins are usually linked to higher returns while lower returns follow ties and defeats
Demir and Danis (2011) 3 Turkish clubs2008–2009Ties/defeats are usually associated with lower stock returns, while a non-significant relationship is found for wins
Saraç and Zeren (2013) 3 Turkish clubs2005–2012Soccer performance is positively linked with stock returns
Scholtens and Peenstra (2009) 8 clubs from different European countries2000–2004Wins lead to increases in stock returns while the opposite holds (with greater magnitude) for ties and for defeats
Castellani et al. (2015) 23 European clubs2007–2009A positive relationship is found between sporting results and stock returns: wins lead to higher returns and ties/defeats to lower performance on the stock market. Unexpected results are found to amplify the magnitude of market reaction
Gimet and Montchaud (2016) 24 European teams2001–2010Stock returns are more dependent on microeconomic and macroeconomic covariates than on match results
Godinho and Cerqueira (2018) 12 European teams2001–2013A link is found between sporting results and stock performance in the case of specific and important matches
Berkowitz and Depken (2018) 17 English football clubs1992–2008Club short-term financial performance is negatively impacted by losing but not impacted by winning

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