Which former professional football players become successful professional head coaches?

Matteo Balliauw, Marco Verheuge and Stijn Baert

No 1024, GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Abstract: One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club's first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association between success as a professional head coach and prior experience of former professional players as a youth coach, player-coach, head coach at a lower division, assistant coach, in other staff positions and in club management positions. Our regression analyses, based on unique coach career data, show a significant positive association for the jobs of assistant or youth coach.

Keywords: football; coaching; education; regression analysis; sports management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 Z2 Z22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-spo
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/248863/1/GLO-DP-1024.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Which former professional football players become successful professional head coaches? (2023)
Working Paper: Which Former Professional Football Players Become Successful Professional Head Coaches? (2022)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:glodps:1024

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics ().