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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"English Premier League"”.
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Professional football sponsorship in the English Premier League and the German Bundesliga
… football clubs and their sponsors). The English Premier League and the German Bundesliga serve as the subject of research owing to their extraordinarily sound reputation in commercial terms. A combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods was used in order to answer the …
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Quantifcation of Physical Loading, Energy Intake and Expenditure In English Premier League Soccer Players
… this reason, Study 1 quantified training load in English Premier League soccer players (n=12) during one, two and three game weekly micro-cycles of the 2013-2014 season. Study 1 identified soccer training being significantly less than match play and identified that soccer training displayed …
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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE NUTRITIONAL HABITS OF ACADEMY PLAYERS AT A SINGLE ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE CLUB
… experiences of dietary intake methods in an English Premier League youth academy. Study one (Chapter 4) quantified the energy, macro and micronutrient intake of players from age groups under (U) 13 to U18 (7-day food diary, n = 59). Results showed players across all ages were in energy …
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An examination of the resistance training practices within an elite senior English Premier League professional football club.
… during 4 weeks of pre-season training in 23 English Premier League footballers. Volume was calculated using four different methods of quantification; Repetition volume (RV), Set Volume (SV), Volume Load (VL) and Maximum Dynamic Strength Volume Load (MDSVL). Overall there was a significant …
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ACTION RESEARCH: UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALL IN THE COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT INTERVENTION
… there has been recognition of the influence that English Premier League football clubs can have in attending to the health improvement agenda through football-based community-coaching interventions. Few FitC programmes have suitable evaluation procedures in place, there remains limited evaluative …
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Styles of Play in Elite Soccer: Identification and Definition of the Attacking and Defensive Styles of Play in the English Premier League and the 1st Spanish League
… from ninety-seven matches from the 1st Spanish League and the English Premier League from the seasons 2006-2007 and 2010-2011 using the Amisco® system. A total of nineteen variables, fourteen in attack and five in defence were measured in the analysis. Factor analysis using principal component …
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An assessment of performance and efficiency of team-based organizations: empirical evidence of English premier league (EPL) using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and naturalistic approach (NA), 2005 to 2016
… Kingdom and other European countries, but the English Premier League (EPL) is no doubt the most affluent league with many financially powerful clubs concentrated in the twenty-team league (Deloitte and Touché, 2008). A critique of issues about measuring performance and efficiency of sports …
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Understanding the barriers to, and impact of, men's engagement in physical activity and health related behaviours : an examination of an English Premier League football in the community men's health programme
… there has been recognition of the influence that English Premier league (EPL) football clubs can have in attracting men to physical activity and health engagement programmes. Despite attempts to align FitC programmes with suitable evaluation procedures, there still remains limited evaluative …
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Metabolic responses to soccer-specific intermittent exercise.
… of elite South American soccer players and English Premier League players, performing in international and club level respectively, were determined. English Premier League players covered a greater total distance during a game than the South American players (P< 0.05). Differences were found …
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An Examination of the Motivations and Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in the Premier League 1992-2012
The English Premier League is regarded as one of the most prominent sporting competitions in the world. In the last decade the league (and by definition it’s member clubs) have become highly attractive to wealthy foreign investors, having taken ownership of a number of clubs across the league. This …
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Measuring the effectiveness and quantity of defensive pressure in football
… and tended to be the highest ranked teams in the English Premier League. The Korean KL1 league followed similar patterns to the EPL but the lowest PPDA teams were at the top, middle and bottom of the league. Study 2 therefore ranked teams using a K-means cluster analysis with Euclidean distancing …
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Shaping a “Glocal” Premier League in Distinct Markets: Localisation and Hybridisation
The modern English Premier League (EPL) has become an institution with global reach. EPL has achieved substantive global success since its inception in 1992, bringing significant revenue from overseas markets. Given EPL’s worldwide market footprint, this dissertation focuses on the processes of …
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The attacking process in football: a taxonomy for classifying how teams create goal scoring opportunities
… from a professional football club in the English Premier League to create robust operational definitions. After the completion of this process, five specific situations were deemed as unstable situations, which arose due to pitch location, game situation or a specific action i.e. 1) …
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Injury risk and performance: Towards a better understanding of the complexities and intricacies of load monitoring within an elite football club
… monitoring becomes even more apparent. Notably, English Premier League soccer clubs bore an approximate financial burden of £45 million per season due to injuries from 2012-2013 through to the 2016- 2017 season. In response to the pressing demand for a nuanced understanding of the intricate …
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An enhanced Bayesian Network prediction model for football matches based on player performance
… achievement such as ranking in FIFA, ranking in league and total number of points gained at the end of a season. There is no known work to date that has analysed individual player performance data as part of the parameters used to predict football match results. To address this gap, this research …
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Alternative approaches to financial and sporting performance measurement in English professional football
… concluded a number of findings in relation to English professional football clubs since 1992. First, there has been a move towards utility maximisation among English clubs. Second, the foreign ownership model has led to an improvement in sporting performance and a decline in financial …
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Essays on Behavioural Finance and Sports Economics
… is rather sparse. We used a novel dataset of the English Premier League (EPL), which has not been previously utilised, particularly in the context of sunk costs. We examined the frequent manager turnover within teams, where the self-justification explanation suggested that sunk costs may not apply …
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The Physiological and Genetic Factors Underpinning Powerful Actions in Elite Youth Soccer
… durations of powerful actions during competitive English Premier League [under 18 (U18) and under 21 (U21)] elite youth soccer matches using a novel soccer specific powerful action (SSPA) notational analysis coding system. We found that while elite soccer match-play requires players to perform …
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Mental toughness in elite football officiating
… officiating excellence in the context of English Premier League (EPL) refereeing. Specifically, in this study, 15 “Select Group” referees (i.e., a panel of elite football officials governed to referee EPL matches) were interviewed about their perceptions of factors underpinning officiating …
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