RT Journal Article
T1 On competitive balance in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League
A1 Triguero-Ruiz, Francisco Andrés
A1 Ávila-Cano, Antonio Jesús
K1 Fútbol
AB This article examines competitive balance in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League over the last two decades (1999/2000–2017/2018). Competitive balance is considered both before and after a competition. Have the groups been designed in such a way as to ensure similar levels of com-petitive balance ex ante? Have the demonstrated strengths (ex post competitive balance) of the different groups been similar over each season? What is the relationship between the competitive balance in the designed groups and that achieved in the same groups after the competition? Are the performance achieved in terms of ex post competitive bal-ance similar to ex ante competitive balance levels? We found that, despite expectations, the groups' ex ante competitive balance was not homogeneous. Although ex ante competi-tive balance serves as a good predictor, on average, of ex post competitive balance, we observed significant differences at the levels of group and seasons. Therefore, it is possible to improve the design mechanism of the groups that make up the group stage of the champions so that they are composed homogeneously in terms of ex ante competitive balance
PB Wiley
YR 2022
FD 2022-09-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24961
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24961
LA eng
NO Triguero-Ruiz, F. & Avila-Cano, A. (2022) On competitive balance in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 00, 1– 18. Available from:Triguero-Ruiz, F. & Avila-Cano, A. (2022) On competitive balance in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 00, 1– 18. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12338
NO This work was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain), PID2020-114309GB-I00. Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga/CBUA.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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