Economic contribution and sport success through the sale of homegrown football players from the five European major leagues

Abstract

Introduction: European team presumes to have a great development project to feed their first team and to create elite players. Objective: Building on a dataset of homegrown player transfers, national football league’s revenues, and European football revenues from the 2015/2016 season to the 2020/2021 season inside the five major leagues (LaLiga, Premier League, Ligue 1, Bundesliga, and Serie A). Materials and methods: Were exanimated 74 football teams in to know how profitable their projects were. Results and discussion: Results show that does not exist only one way to take advantage of developing homegrown football players. Conclusions: These results vary according to each football club’s objectives, which could be different with the passing of the years.