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

Juan S. Correa, Juan Mendoza, Andr�s Rosas and David Su�rez

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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