The contribution of coaches in the playing style of football clubs

Thadeu Gasparetto and Anna Shrainer

International Journal of Business Performance Management, 2025, vol. 26, issue 3, 322-342

Abstract: This paper aims to identify the playing styles of football clubs and their influence on the clubs' performance. K-means clustering algorithm was applied to all the passes distributed among the football teams to get the unique z-score and recognise the most outstanding coaching contribution. The Russian Premier League - from 2017/2018 to 2019/2020 - is the setting inspected. The calculated score for each club shows that FC UFA under the guidance of Sergei Semak in 2017/2018, FC Krasnodar with Igor Shalimov in 2017/2018 and Magomed Adiev with FC Anzhi in 2018/2019, in the greater extent, differs from the other clubs that participated in the league over the researched period. The empirical findings reveal that playing experience of a coach has a positive effect on the outcome of a match, while coaching tenure has a reduced negative effect. This study contributes with new insights regarding coaching style identification on professional football.

Keywords: head coach; passing; playing style; professional football; statistics. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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