TY  - RPRT
U1  - Arbeitspapier
A1  - Zülch, Henning
A1  - Palme, Moritz
A1  - Jost, Sébastien
A1  - Kirsch, Benedikt
T1  - Management Quality of Professional  Football Clubs
BT  - The Football Management (FoMa) Q-Score 2021
T2  - HHL Working Paper
N2  - Managing a football club has become much more complex in recent years, as the clubs have turned into football companies and a growing number of stakeholders have entered the industry. The clubs’ capabilities to handle the increased complexity vary, turning management quality into a crucial competitive (dis-)advantage. This new 2021 edition of the FoMa Q-Score ranking builds on the framework established by ZÜLCH & PALME (2017), which comprehensively assesses management quality along four dimensions, namely Sporting Success, Financial Performance, Fan Welfare Maximization and Leadership & Governance, in order to perform a 
longitudinal and cross-sectional analysis of the German professional football clubs’ management quality. As confirmed by high-level football club executives, these dimensions are able to objectively quantify relevant success factors of a professional football club (ZÜLCH, CRUZ, & SCHREGEL, 2021). Ultimately, the performance in all dimensions, referred to as FoMa Q-Score, indicates a club’s management quality. Consequently, the FoMa Q-Score has become a wellestablished management tool with high practical relevance in recent years, even more so in light of the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. Interested football managers can make use of our findings, which now also reflect the initial COVID-19 effects on financials (for months of Mar20 - Jun20) and non-financials (for the full season 2020/21) in this latest edition, and derive specific actions to benchmark their club’s setups in order to make up ground or defend their competitive positions.
T3  - HHL-Arbeitspapier / HHL Working paper - 193 
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021122014053414165182
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021122014053414165182
UR  - https://d-nb.info/1248078209/34
IS  - August 2021
SP  - 88
S1  - 88
ER  -