Investigating the Relationship Between the Amount of Money a Football Club Receives and its Success

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Investigating the Relationship Between the Amount of Money a Football Club Receives and its Success

In this investigation, I will look at a set of statistics for English

football clubs for the 1998 - 1999 season. Using these, I will look at

how the amount of money a football club receives affects its success.

Measuring 'success'

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It is difficult to measure success, as there is no numerical way to

quantify it. In my investigation, I will look at success in terms of

achievements on the pitch as opposed to the success of the club as a

business. I will measure success by looking at the relationship

between money and three factors. These are:

* League Position - This is a measure of the club's 'success' as the

better the team performs, the higher the league position.

* Goal Difference - This is calculated by total goals scored minus

total goals conceded. This is a measure of the team's success as

the better the team performs, the greater the goals scored and the

less the goals conceded, thus the greater the goal difference.

* Stadium Capacity - This can be considered as measure of success.

It can be argued that the more successful a team is, the better

supported it will be and thus the greater the stadium capacity in

order to accommodate more fans. It is important to note that this

factor is not as significant a measure of 'success' that the other

2 factors as there could well be exceptions to the above argument.

E.g. a successful and well-supported team could play in a very

small stadium if the stadium was in a built up area where there

was no space t...

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P

Sheffield Wed

12

38

7

5

7

20

15

6

2

11

21

27

46

39859

£1,984,000

-1

P

Southampton

17

38

9

4

6

29

26

2

4

13

8

38

41

15000

£3,500,000

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P

Tottenham

11

38

7

7

5

28

26

4

7

8

19

24

47

36236

£1,998,000

-3

P

West Ham Utd

5

38

11

3

5

32

26

5

6

8

14

27

57

26054

£2,000,000

-7

P

Wimbledon

16

38

7

7

5

22

21

3

5

11

18

42

42

26297

£0

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