Impacto da pandemia COVID-19 na eficiência financeira e esportiva dos maiores clubes do futebol brasileiro

Abstract

Football moves millions of reais annually, contributing significantly to the Brazilian economy directly and indirectly, however, football clubs are not always efficient in terms of operating costs and revenues. In the year 2019 the world was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, due to the pandemic period, the lockdown system was implemented, in this scenario the population was oriented to stay at home, it should be noted that the championships were suspended, later took place again, but without the presence of the public. This work aims to analyze the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the financial and sports efficiency of Brazilian football teams. The efficiency of 28 clubs that participated at least once in the "Serie A" of the Brazilian football championship in the period from 2018 to 2021 was analyzed, to obtain the scores of financial and sports efficiency, Frontier Analyst 4.2.0® software was used. The results presented indicate that despite the clubs obtaining a drop in operating revenues, during the analyzed period, it cannot be said that the pandemic impacted the financial efficiency of the clubs. In addition, regarding the evaluation of the sports efficiency of the clubs, it was observed that the clubs did not present significant changes in the efficiency scores because of the COVID-19 pandemic.