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Belgian Football

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  • Trudo Dejonghe

    (Lessius Hogeschool Antwerpen)

  • Hans Vandeweghe

    (Oostkamp, Belgium)

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The Belgian football league declined, after the Bosman case, to a secondary level and became a “stepping stone†for players from outside the European Union. The transformation of professional football into a media-corporations-merchandising-markets model throughout Europe resulted in a decline of Belgian competition. The market in Belgian was too small to be competitive, and the old-fashioned Royal Belgian Football Association rejected adaptation to the new environment. Currently, clubs in Belgium can no longer compete with the European elite, and many small teams have been fighting for their existence year after year. The result is the increasing importation of inferior foreign players. A new phenomenon is that many clubs sell their players when they are sure of their prolongation in the first division.

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  • Trudo Dejonghe & Hans Vandeweghe, 2006. "Belgian Football," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 7(1), pages 105-113, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jospec:v:7:y:2006:i:1:p:105-113
    DOI: 10.1177/1527002505283022
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    1. Stefan Kesenne, 2007. "Belgian Football," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 8(6), pages 670-674, December.
    2. Trudo Dejonghe & Wim Van Opstal, 2009. "The Consequences of an Open Labour Market in Separated Product Markets in European Professional Football," Review of Business and Economic Literature, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Review of Business and Economic Literature, vol. 0(4), pages 489-511.
    3. Trudo Dejonghe & Wim Van Opstal, 2008. "The consequences of an open labour market in a closed product market in the economic environment of European professional football," Working Papers 0830, International Association of Sports Economists;North American Association of Sports Economists.
    4. Roger G. Noll, 2007. "Broadcasting And Team Sports," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 54(3), pages 400-421, July.
    5. David Procházka, 2012. "Financial Conditions and Transparency of the Czech Professional Football Clubs," Prague Economic Papers, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2012(4), pages 504-521.

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