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.
The Price of Football : Understanding Football Club Finance
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Table of Contents
Foreword by Kevin Day
1. Introduction
Part I Football club financial reports2. The balance sheet3. The profit or loss account4. The cash flow statement
Part II The price of football5. Buying players6. Ticket prices7. Broadcasting and sponsorship income8. Financial fair play
Part III Football club financial analysis9. How to analyse club accounts 1: trend analysis10. How to analyse club accounts 2: ratio analysis11. Valuing a football club12. Ownership models: love, profit, vanity and insanity13. Red flags: things that make you go "hmmm" - creative accounting and football finance14. Football finance in a post-Covid-19 world and Project Big PictureGlossary of accounting terms
Author Description
Kieran Maguire teaches the Football Industries MBA at the University of Liverpool Management School. He specialises in financial reporting, financial modelling and football finance, and regularly appears on television and radio commentating on matters relating to club finance.