The Demand for Professional League Football and the Success of Football League Teams: Some City Size Effects
研究了英格兰职业足球队的联赛排名与所在城市人口规模的关系，发现人口对排名和上座率有显著影响，大城市球队更成功，且低级别联赛中球队间距离影响上座率，支持区域化。
This paper examines the relationship between the league standing of English professional football teams and the rank and size of the SMLA in which they are located, and the influence of population, among other factors, on attendances at football fixtures. The paper commences with a brief review of existing work in this area and concludes on the basis of empirical work presented here that the demonstrated influence of population on both league standing and attendances would suggest that big city teams will be more successful. Additionally, the relative importance of distance between teams competing in a fixture on attendances for lower division teams, might suggest benefits to be derived from regionalisation of the lower leagues.