Direct regional economic impact of Germany’s 1. FC Kaiserslautern through participation in the 1. Bundesliga

What is the value of a Premier League football club to a regional economy?

“…The analysis in this paper aims, as far as possible, and with the available data, to provide an estimate of the net economic impact of SCFC on the regional economy. Preuss et al (2010) provide a useful framework for the estimation of the primary economic impact associated with a sports club's regular season, and this is further illustrated in Könecke et al (2015) with an application to a football club in Germany's Bundesliga. The elements of impact included in these papers have been identified and quantified where possible.…”

“…The local economic effects of football clubs are typically understood through the effects of club and visitor spending on the local economy. This means that assessments of the economic effects of football clubs include simple tallies of gross spending by clubs and supporters, but with some more informed analyses outlining how to carefully capture the primary (direct) impacts (Könecke et al, 2015) and others using local, regional and national models to explore how club spending might then multiply through a local economy. For example, in this vein, some organisations examine discrete one-off events and examine the multiplier effects of organiser spending and that levered by visitors to events (Preuss, 2005;Taks et al, 2015).…”

“…A number of studies have examined the local economic impact of both large sport events and season based sport, however it is rarer to find studies which assess net economic impactfor example, explicitly dealing with displacement and double counting, or restricted to that resultant on monies from outside the reference economy (Johnstone, Southern, & Taylor, 2000;Preuss, 2005;Könecke, Preuss, & Schütte, 2015;Taks, Chalip, & Green, 2015). Within the UK, previous studies have been focused on the major conurbations, including for example, Merseyside (Johnstone et al 2000), Glasgow (Allan, Dunlop, & Swales, 2007) and…”

Why do People Attend Sport Events at Mature Tourist Destinations? An Analysis of Visitors’ Motivation to Attend the Windsurf World Cup on Sylt

“…This differentiation can also be found in research projects regarding the economic impact of events of different sizes (e.g. [8], [9], [10], and [11]). Against this backdrop, Snelgrove et al [7] identify different motives of spectators at sport events, that is "(1) motives associated with being a fan of the sport [and] (2) motives associated with leisure preferences" ( [7]; also see [1], [12], and [13]).…”

“…[7], [9], [10], [11], and [30]). The question was "Did you come to Sylt ONLY because of the Reno Windsurf World Cup?"…”