Measuring the Efficiency of English Football Clubs: Empirical Evidence from Professional Football

The aim of the paper is to propose a method for evaluating the performance of football clubs based on the method of Data Envelopment Analysis. The article also deals with the impact of the reprisals caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which limited fans' access to the stadiums as well as the football competitions themselves. Professional English football clubs playing in the English Premier League were selected for empirical analysis. The performance evaluation of English football clubs is an important reference for team managers, the management of individual clubs and the selected competition as a whole. One of the two most frequently used DEA models, the CCR model, was used to analyze the relative efficiency of football clubs. The study focuses on clubs operating in the highest English football competition during the seasons 2017/18 to 2020/21.