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Restructuring the Belgian Professional Football League: A Location‐Allocation Solution

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  • Trudo Dejonghe

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In the 1990s, and even more since the Bosman Case, professional football in Europe has been transformed from a utility maximisation to a more endogenous growth‐based profit maximisation consumer‐oriented service. In the post‐Bosman period Belgian football has declined in the European rankings and has in a more economic‐oriented climate problems in surviving. The recent transformation implies that in the long run the economic features and more specific the location of the club is becoming a very important factor. The existing heterogeneous characteristics of the different clubs made it necessary to introduce an empirically‐based modified maximum covering location model. The empirical results prove that a restructuring of Belgian professional football to 14 clubs and in some cases a relocation or merger might be a solution for the contemporary problems.

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  • Trudo Dejonghe, 2004. "Restructuring the Belgian Professional Football League: A Location‐Allocation Solution," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 95(1), pages 73-88, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:tvecsg:v:95:y:2004:i:1:p:73-88
    DOI: 10.1111/j.0040-747X.2004.00294.x
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    1. Jean-François Bourg & Jean-Jacques Gouguet, 2010. "The Political Economy of Professional Sport," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 13177.
    2. Klobučník Michal & Plešivčák Martin & Vrábeľ Milan, 2019. "Football clubs’ sports performance in the context of their market value and GDP in the European Union regions," Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, Sciendo, vol. 45(45), pages 59-74, September.

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