Does it pay to fire the coach? Evidence from Argentine professional soccer

Juan S. Correa, Juan Mendoza, Andrés Rosas and David Suárez

Vniversitas Económica, 2012, vol. 0, issue 0, No 10008, 28 pages

Abstract: We estimate the effect of coach dismissals on team performance using data from the Argentine professional soccer league from 1991 to 2009. Because firing a coach might depend on team performance, we use the number of remaining matches in the season as a source of exogenous variation in the chance of a coach dismissal. We find that firing a coach does not have a significant effect on team performance measured either by the number of points or by the goal difference. However, teams with newly-appointed coaches score and allow more goals with no net effect on the average goal difference

Keywords: Soccer; Coach Change; Team Performance. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J4 J63 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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