Spectators longing for live action: a study of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on (football) supporters in Sweden

Radmann, Aage; Karlén, Sara

doi:10.1080/17430437.2022.2031003

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“…Indeed, the establishment of club–fan relationships and identities conveyed to fans through social activities and promotions, online interactions, community club activities, etc., can be studied, and such studies can be characterized as sociological research toward the ultimate goal of a viable and successful business approach that includes the branding of football clubs ( Calabuig et al, 2021 ; Mora et al, 2021 ; Weber et al, 2022 ; Brand et al, 2023 ; Fenton et al, 2023 ). In fact, Calloway et al (2019) and Radmann and Karlen (2022) reported that the most important aspect to consider in a catastrophic crisis such as lockdowns and reduced league operations due to COVID-19 is the relationship with fans. This need was predicted to be the cause of the fan-centered sociological studies conducted during the pandemic.…”

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“…In addition, there were fewer keywords and topic clusters that can be identified as distinct business research topics compared to before the pandemic. The only business-related topics we found consisted of keywords related to CSR and CRM strategies, which are highly relevant to the socio-business research covered in the Sociology section ( Fiadotava, 2021 ; Radmann and Karlen, 2022 ).…”

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Soccer’s AI transformation: deep learning’s analysis of soccer’s pandemic research evolution

Lee,

Song,

Kim

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Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionThis paper aims to identify and compare changes in trends and research interests in soccer articles from before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsWe compared research interests and trends in soccer-related journal articles published before COVID-19 (2018–2020) and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021–2022) using Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) topic modeling.ResultsIn both periods, we categorized the social sciences into psychology, sociology, business, and technology, with some interdisciplinary research topics identified, and we identified changes during the COVID-19 pandemic period, including a new approach to home advantage. Furthermore, Sports science and sports medicine had a vast array of subject areas and topics, but some similar themes emerged in both periods and found changes before and during COVID-19. These changes can be broadly categorized into (a) Social Sciences and Technology; (b) Performance training approaches; (c) injury part of body. With training topics being more prominent than match performance during the pandemic; and changes within injuries, with the lower limbs becoming more prominent than the head during the pandemic.ConclusionNow that the pandemic has ended, soccer environments and routines have returned to pre-pandemic levels, but the environment that have changed during the pandemic provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners in the field of soccer to detect post-pandemic changes and identify trends and future directions for research.

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Soccer’s AI transformation: deep learning’s analysis of soccer’s pandemic research evolution

Lee,

Song,

Kim

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…Radmann and Karlén [50] clearly demonstrated that when there is no direct connection between sport performers and their audience, enthusiasm considerably decreases on both sides. This is explained by cultural sociology concepts which indicate that the interactions between sport performers and spectators during an event display elements of emotional attachment and feelings of topophilia.…”

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“…This was enhanced and may also be explained by the difficult period endured because of unprecedented lockdowns registered all over the globe during the recent COVID-19 pandemic affecting the young adult population to a large extent [50]. In this context, the UEFA 2020 competition, postponed because of the health crisis and preceding another disruptive moment with crucial regional and global significance, namely the Russian invasion of Ukraine starting at the end of February 2022, could be underlined as an important moment based on solidarity and unity values.…”

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Sport Event Tourism in Bucharest. UEFA EURO 2020 Case Study

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Mega sport events were among the very few types of events still attracting tourists during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and represented an exceptionally attractive tourism opportunity for Bucharest through the matches scheduled for the UEFA 2020 championship. Motivated by the novelty of the event which was organized for the first time in the Romanian capital city and motivated by the exceptionally restrictive context imposed by the sanitary crisis, the aim of this study was to analyze domestic tourist participation in and satisfaction with this event. An extended survey focusing on the autochthonous participants was applied to gather data and then further computed using SPSS software through crosstabulations and associated statistical analysis adapted for nominal and ordinal variables. The main results emphasize a large participation of Romanian football supporters who came specifically for the event. Most of them expressed dissatisfaction with souvenir, food and drink products sold within the stadium area but were satisfied with the COVID-19 measures and their costs. Supporters coming from rural areas opted for VFR accommodations while retirees and elderly supporters preferred hotels. Occupation and age were the main variables determining accommodation preferences as well as satisfaction with souvenir prices. These options may be valuable input for future adapted marketing strategies for sport event tourism in Romania. Lacking important urban tourist attractions and competing with other mature European urban destinations, mega sport events may represent an opportunity for autochthonous large cities to increase tourist attractiveness and maintain leisure travel even during periods of travel restrictions.

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“…A recent study reported that sports competitions should be cancelled, postponed or rearranged respcted to COVID19 protocols and without spectators [12]. In addition, several data recorded that several international sport events had to be postponed, such as the Olympic Games in Japan [13,14] and the European Football Championship for men, a football league in Sweden [15], UEFA Euro 2020, Tour de France [16], tennis tournaments, cycling classic ParisRoubaix 2020 [17]. The policies to stop or postpone the competition caused financial losses, for example the League Premier had to lose $1.25 billion in revenue, Tokyo 2020 Olympics had to lose more than $13 billion [18].…”

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Strategies for organizing sports events safely and healthily during COVID-19 at the university level: perceptions of Indonesian and Hungarian coach

Marsudi

Ridwan

Ashadi

et al. 2023

Fiz Pol

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Purpose. The COVID-19 outbreak had led difficulties in carrying out sports events and limited research investigated the strategies in organizing sports events during COVID-19 generated a gap and novelty in this research. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the perceptions from coaches about strategies in organizing sport events at the university level. Material and Methods. This research used a qualitative with phenomenological method. Participants involved in this study were coaches who had experience in organizing sports events, which came from the State University of Surabaya (Indonesia) (n = 5) and the University of Pecs (Hungary) (n = 5). This study used in-depth interviews with participants during 30 minutes. Data was analyzed using qualitative thematics statistical, namely copying, understanding the text and coding into three themes Results. The results indicate that most of the coaches applied various strategies in organizing sports events, for example limiting the number of participants, implementation time, physical distancing, using masks and hand sanitizers. In addition, they argued that technology and funding were supporting factors to assist the success in organizing sports events. Apart from that, it was necessary to minimize the inhibiting factors in order to optimize the implementation. Conclusions. Thus, this study confirms that to achieve the success in organizing sports events at the university level, it is necessary to consider the strategies and supporting factors. This research contributes to existing knowledge by providing information and scientific insight to coaches, athletes and stakeholders, to implement the appropriate strategy in organizing sports event during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.

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Spectators longing for live action: a study of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on (football) supporters in Sweden

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Soccer’s AI transformation: deep learning’s analysis of soccer’s pandemic research evolution

Soccer’s AI transformation: deep learning’s analysis of soccer’s pandemic research evolution

Sport Event Tourism in Bucharest. UEFA EURO 2020 Case Study

Strategies for organizing sports events safely and healthily during COVID-19 at the university level: perceptions of Indonesian and Hungarian coach

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