Exploring the sports economic impact of COVID-19 on professional soccer

Drewes, Michael; Daumann, Frank; Follert, Florian

doi:10.1080/14660970.2020.1802256

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“…However, similarly, all other professional and amateur sports, including football, basketball, golf, athletics, triathlon etc. were initially canceled or postponed, with some professional sports (e.g., football, basketball, golf) being allowed to resume sometime later despite ongoing lockdowns or restrictions of movements under strict public health protocols [ 5 , 6 ].…”

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Endurance and Ultra-Endurance Running

Scheer

Valero²,

Villiger

et al. 2021

Medicina

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Background and objectives: The COVID-19 outbreak has become a major health and economic crisis. The World Health Organization declared it a pandemic in March 2020, and many sporting events were canceled. Materials and Methods: We examined the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on endurance and ultra-endurance running (UER) and analyzed finishes and events during the COVID-19 pandemic (observation period March 2020–October 2020) to the same time period pre-COVID-19 outbreak (March 2019–October 2019). Results: Endurance finishes decreased during the pandemic (459,029 to 42,656 (male: 277,493 to 25,582; female 181,536 to 17,074; all p < 0.001). Similarly, the numbers of endurance events decreased (213 vs. 61 events; p < 0.001). Average marathon finishing times decreased during the pandemic in men (5:18:03 ± 0:16:34 vs. 4:43:08 ± 0:25:08 h:min:s (p = 0.006)) and women (5:39:32 ± 0:19:29 vs. 5:14:29 ± 0:26:36 h:min:s (p = 0.02)). In UER, finishes decreased significantly (580,289 to 110,055; p < 0.001) as did events (5839 to 1791; p < 0.001). Popular event locations in United States, France, UK, and Germany decreased significantly (p < 0.05). All distance and time-limited UER events saw significant decreases (p < 0.05). Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant effect on endurance and UER, and it is unlikely that running activities return to pre-pandemic levels any time soon. Mitigation strategies and safety protocols should be established.

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Endurance and Ultra-Endurance Running

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Valero²,

Villiger

et al. 2021

Medicina

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“…Other commentaries have highlighted the impacts of COVID-19 on specific countries such as Montenegro (Begović, 2020), women's football in England (Clarkson et al, 2020), the resumption of major sporting events (Ludvigsen & Hayton, 2020), disability sport (Fitzgerald et al, 2020), sport stadiums (Mastromartino et al, 2020) and physical activity (Hammami et al, 2020). There has been discipline-specific analysis of impacts, such as the economic impact on professional soccer (Drewes et al, 2020). Sociological analysis (e.g.…”

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COVID-19 impacts on sport governance and management: a global, critical realist perspective

Byers

Gormley

Winand

et al. 2021

Managing Sport and Leisure

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This commentary considers the impacts of COVID-19 on sport governance and management, given the global threat to sport services and organizations evident as a result of the disease since early 2020. To frame this analysis of the impacts and lessons to be learned, we use a Critical Realist (CR) perspective, which takes a multi-level view of reality and seeks to establish how and why something occurs in reality [Byers, T. (2013). Using critical realism: A new perspective on control of volunteers in sport clubs. European Sport Management Quarterly, 13(1), 5-31.

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“…Studies on the impact of COVID-19 on sport have started to emerge in different fields, especially in those related to the negative effects on elite athletes’ performance and physical fitness after the pandemic ( Baggish et al, 2020 ; Dores and Cardim, 2020 ), athletes’ psychological aspects ( Sarto et al, 2020 ), financial and structural aspects of sport organizations ( Drewes et al, 2020 ), or the consequences of the cancelation or postponement of sport events such as the Tokyo 2020 OG ( Gallego et al, 2020 ). Nevertheless, beyond sport itself, there is a lack of research on the effects of COVID-19 on complementary elements of elite athletes’ life like, for example, their student role.…”

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Effect of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Elite Spanish Student-Athletes’ Perception of the Dual Career

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The aim of the present research was to assess elite student-athletes’ perception of the dual career during the lockdown caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, compared with a group of elite student-athletes who could develop their dual career under normal conditions. A total of 150 elite athletes who were also undergraduate or postgraduate students self-completed the “Perceptions of dual career student-athletes (ESTPORT)” questionnaire. From them, 78 did it during the mandatory lockdown period due to the state of emergency caused by COVID-19 (COVID-19 group) and 72 completed it in the previous year to Rio 2016 Olympic Games (control group). The COVID-19 group was found to spend a significantly higher number of hours per week studying, while no significant differences were observed between groups in any training time variable. Student-athletes of the COVID-19 group showed better perception of whether their sport career could help them cope with their academic career and better general perception of remote learning and the use of tasks and videoconferencing as learning support tools. A lower percentage of athletes of the COVID-19 group than of the control group wished to continue with their sport career once they finished their studies. To conclude, student-athletes of the COVID-19 group show adaptations with regard to the organization of their studies and the importance they give to them and to the services provided by dual-career programs, compared with student-athletes from an ordinary pre-Olympic year. In general, student-athletes’ perception of the dual career is very positive.

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Exploring the sports economic impact of COVID-19 on professional soccer

Cited by 86 publications

References 33 publications

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Endurance and Ultra-Endurance Running

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Endurance and Ultra-Endurance Running

COVID-19 impacts on sport governance and management: a global, critical realist perspective

Effect of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Elite Spanish Student-Athletes’ Perception of the Dual Career

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