Football players market

This unique publication deals with the football player market in Europe. The primary product of professional football clubs is a football match against an opponent, played in a long-term competition – a league. The key factor of production for clubs is the players. In Europe, they are transferred between individual football clubs on the football player market.

The publication deals with the specifics, rules, participants, and also the problems of this market. The main aims of this book are not only to describe the evolution of the rules, but also to show how the football environment has reacted to this evolution in practice, and at the same time to highlight which changes were the most fundamental for the football market and what exactly they brought to the practical functioning of individual football clubs.

A comprehensive view of the evolution of the football player market, its rules, a description of the current situation, and an analysis of some problematic changes, including practical examples, will provide anyone interested in the subject with a better orientation in this environment. The book will be beneficial not only for those interested in the football environment, but also in ice hockey and other collective sports games.