ECONOMIC-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE AND SPORTIVE PERFORMANCE: AN ANALYSIS WITH FOOTBALL CLUBS IN BRAZIL

The present study has the purpose to verify the relationship between the sportive and financial performance of soccer clubs in Brazil that participated at least once in the “Série A” or “Série B” between 2013 and 2016. In order to measure the sporting performance, the Official CBF Clubs Ranking was used as well as the score in a ranking developed by the authors, which used the same methodology as the CBF Ranking but considering only the current year. For the financial performance, the following indicators were used: Gross Operating Revenue, Wage Expenditure, EBIT and Indebtedness. Descriptive statistics analysis and regression with panel data, controlling the fixed effects, were performed. The research findings indicate a positive and significant relationship of gross income, salary expenditure and indebtedness with the clubs’ sports performance in the four regression models. EBIT and the dummy of electoral year weren’t significant, showing no relation with the clubs’ sports results