Development of loan players in professional football

Niklas Günter and Lars Vischer

No 5/2024, Discussion Papers of the Institute for Organisational Economics from University of Münster, Institute for Organisational Economics

Abstract: This study analyses the development of loan players in the German Bundesliga from 2010/2011 to 2021/2022, motivated by the increasing importance of player loans in professional football and upcoming FIFA rule changes to reduce loans. The study analyses 378 loan transfers and compares them with 6,162 non-loan players. The focus is on the three main protagonist: the loaned player, the lending club and the loaning club. It is found that loan players do not receive more playing minutes than average Bundesliga players and that there is no recognisable increase in market value for the loaning club, which does not improve the negotiating position when selling players. In our data, the loaning club also does not benefit significantly from the sporting performances of the loaned players.

Keywords: Bundesliga; Development; Football; Loan Player; Market Value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J41 L83 M55 Z20 Z21 Z22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-spo
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/295740/1/1889748641.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:umiodp:295740

DOI: 10.17879/46988527223

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Discussion Papers of the Institute for Organisational Economics from University of Münster, Institute for Organisational Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics ().