Racial bias in the stands? Investigating customer-based discrimination in European soccer

Tommy Kweku Quansah, Markus Lang and Bernd Frick

Applied Economics, 2024, vol. 56, issue 54, 7050-7064

Abstract: This study investigates the presence and impact of customer-based racial discrimination in Europe’s top five professional soccer leagues. While prior research in European sports has focused mainly on wages or nationalities rather than race, this paper employs a market test approach to assess the influence of racial preferences on stadium attendance. The study analyzes data from the 2008/09 to 2018/19 seasons of the European Big-5 soccer leagues and finds evidence of customer-based discrimination, which varies in degree and nature across the five countries and leagues. The research addresses a significant gap in the European sports economics literature, which has been extensively investigated in North American sports since the 1980s.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2023.2277694

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