RESEARCH ARTICLE
Performance Analysis During the 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualification
Martin Flégl*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2014Volume: 7
First Page: 183
Last Page: 197
Publisher ID: TOSSJ-7-183
DOI: 10.2174/1875399X01407010183
Article History:
Received Date: 23/05/2014Revision Received Date: 12/10/2014
Acceptance Date: 22/10/2014
Electronic publication date: 19/12/2014
Collection year: 2014
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
This article analyzes the performance of the national football teams during the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification. The sample consists of 31 qualified national teams to the final tournament in Brazil. The analysis uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology and is carried out for the whole qualification period between June 2011 and November 2013. Each national team is evaluated according to a number of played matches, used players, qualification group quality, obtained points, and score. The results show that only 12.9% teams reached the performance of 100%. The reasons of low performances mainly depend on teams´ qualities either in each qualification zone or in each qualification group. In addition, a sensitivity analysis is used to confirm the adequate structure of the DEA model.