The Price of Football: Understanding Football Club Finance

Kieran Maguire

doi:10.1017/9781788213271

The Price of Football

Understanding Football Club Finance

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Kieran Maguire, University of Liverpool

Publisher:: Agenda Publishing
Online publication date:: December 2023
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781788213271
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781788213271

Subjects:: Economics, Finance and Accountancy

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The first edition of The Price of Football quickly established itself as the go-to guide to understanding football club finance for the serious fan. Kieran Maguire, one of the UK's top football finance analysts, shows how professional clubs operate as businesses and explains, in non-technical language, how to read, understand and interrogate club accounts.

As a clear-headed analysis and presentation of the financial imperatives and challenges facing football clubs across the English and Scottish Leagues, it has become a welcome resource not only for students of the industry, but by a wider constituency of supporters looking to understand their club's latest transfer deal, or season ticket price.

This fully revised and updated edition includes analysis of the most recent club accounts, the latest legal rulings on club affairs, as well as the impact of Covid-19 on the game's finances.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Foreword
pp ix-xii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-4

Part I - Football club financial reports
pp 5-6

2 - The balance sheet
pp 7-20

3 - The profit or loss account
pp 21-42

4 - The cash flow statement
pp 43-48

Part II - The price of football
pp 49-50

5 - Players (and agents)
pp 51-76

6 - Ticket prices
pp 77-84

7 - Broadcasting and sponsorship income
pp 85-94

8 - Financial fair play
pp 95-110

Part III - Football club financial analysis
pp 111-112

9 - How to analyse club accounts 1: trend analysis
pp 113-138

10 - How to analyse club accounts 2: ratio analysis
pp 139-162

11 - Valuing a football club
pp 163-180

12 - Ownership models: love, profit, vanity and insanity
pp 181-192

13 - Red flags – things that make you go “hmmm”: creative accounting and football finance
pp 193-210

14 - Football finance in a post-Covid-19 world and Project Big Picture
pp 211-220

Glossary of accountancy terms
pp 221-222

Further reading
pp 223-224

Index
pp 225-228

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