The proponents of the European Football Super League have switched from a proposal suggesting that permanent members self-govern their (almost) closed competition to a proposal maintaining the concept of self-governance by the participating clubs but now advocating participation on the basis of sporting merit. Can self-governance be realistically introduced at the top of the football pyramid without closing this top? The paper explains why this is not the case and how the new proposal is a closed league in disguise, which is likely to trigger the same value creation problems as an openly closed league

Egon Franck

No 403, Working Papers from University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW)

Keywords: Outcome Bias; European Football Super League; Self-governance; Closed leagues (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D02 D23 D71 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2024-08
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