Explaining International Soccer Rankings

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    Abstract

    Existing research on the determinants of FIFA's international soccer rankings suffers from serious statistical problems, particularly sample selection bias and nonnormal errors. The authors correct for this by extending the data set by an additional 100 countries. Furthermore, they find important roles for new variables in the form of the size of population and a long history of international soccer in explaining world football rankings. The authors also investigate the determinants of an alternative ranking measure to that constructed by FIFA.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)202-213
    Number of pages12
    JournalJournal of Sports Economics
    Volume8
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Apr 2007

    Keywords

    • international football rankings
    • history

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