The Determinants of Football Match Attendance Revisited

By Jaume García, Plácido Rodríguez. 2002

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An attendance equation is estimated using data on individual games played in the Spanish First Division Football League. The specification includes as explanatory factors: economic variables, quality, uncertainty and opportunity costs. The authors concentrate the analysis on some specification issues such as controlling the effect of unobservables given the panel data structure of the data set, the type of functional form, and the potential endogeneity of prices. The authors obtain the expected effects on attendance for all the variables. The estimated price elasticities are, in general, smaller than one in absolute value but are sensitive to the specification issues, in particular, the endogeneity of prices.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Rival conceptions of rivalry: why some competitions mean more than others (2015, positive): “Since rivalries frequently benefit sport organizations (Buraimo, 2007; García & Rodríguez, 2002; Wilson & Sim, 1995), sport managers may seek to increase out-group animosity as a way of sparking interest in games and creating more strongly identified fans (Luellen & Wann, 2010).”
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels (2004, background): “…although to the extent that broadcasting causes matches to be rescheduled to weekdays it would still be the indirect cause.5 A recent paper by Garcia and Rodriguez (2002) examines the effect of broadcasting on attendance in the top division of Spanish football between 1992 and 1996, during…”
Stadium Attendance Demand Research: A Scoping Review (2021, background): “…tendency to explore empirical data generated in the US market (18; e.g., Berkowitz et al., 2011; Butler, 2002; Humphreys & Johnson, 2020), and also Europe (10; e.g., Falter et al., 2008, Garcı́a & Rodrı́guez, 2002; Martins & Cró, 2018), but almost no evidence from Africa, Asia, or South America.”
New Issues in Attendance Demand (2006, background): “Several empirical studies have found distance to be an important variable determining game attendance (Forrest and Simmons, 2002; Forrest, Simmons and Szymanski, 2004; Garcia and Rodriguez, 2002).”
A tale of two audiences: Spectators, television viewers and outcome uncertainty in Spanish football (2009, methodology): “5 Our sample period post-dates that used in a study of Spanish audiences for televised football by Garcia and Rodriguez (2006).”
Competitive balance versus competitive intensity before a match: is one of these two concepts more relevant in explaining attendance? The case of the French football Ligue 1 over the period 2008–2011 (2013, background): “The expected quality of the match can first be measured by what Garcìa and Rodrìguez (2002) call ex ante quality, that is the quality of both the teams at the beginning of the season, independent of performance previous to the match, and secondly by those variables proxying the most recent…”
Financial fair play in European football (2014, background): “…below them, and below that lies a whole range of amateur and recreational 5 There is a large literature on the relationship between competitive balance and demand both in theory (see e.g. Szymanski, 2001) and empirically (see e.g. Borland and MacDonald, 2003; Garcia and Rodriguez, 2002). football.”