Ahmed Shalaby, S. (2011). The Economic Variables Associated with Financial Performance Interactions of French Football. Journal of Applied Sports Science, 1(2), 32-43. doi: 10.21608/jass.2011.84902
Saad Ahmed Shalaby. "The Economic Variables Associated with Financial Performance Interactions of French Football". Journal of Applied Sports Science, 1, 2, 2011, 32-43. doi: 10.21608/jass.2011.84902
Ahmed Shalaby, S. (2011). 'The Economic Variables Associated with Financial Performance Interactions of French Football', Journal of Applied Sports Science, 1(2), pp. 32-43. doi: 10.21608/jass.2011.84902
Ahmed Shalaby, S. The Economic Variables Associated with Financial Performance Interactions of French Football. Journal of Applied Sports Science, 2011; 1(2): 32-43. doi: 10.21608/jass.2011.84902
The Economic Variables Associated with Financial Performance Interactions of French Football
Faculty of Physical Education, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
Abstract
French Football operates a unique model in managing and controlling French football clubs, and this helped these clubs to live in a healthy financial position with low debts compared with their Europeans neighbors. This model cannot success isolated from the environment economic variables for French clubs such as market size (population), individual income average and money spent on buying players, in addition to sport performance in local and international competitions. Therefore, the purpose of this current research is to examine interactions between economic variables related to the financial performance of the French clubs that occupied positions in Football Money League during the past ten years from 2000/2001 until 2009/2010: Olympique Lyon and Olympique Marseille, with employing method of analytical studies. The results showed a significant relationship between each of the economic variables and total financial revenues' streams for French clubs in different percentages, in addition to the absence of a significant relationship between attendance financial revenues for French clubs and some economic variables. The following parts will discuss both results and conclusions, in addition to exploring the interactions between all of the economic variables and financial performance and future research ideas.