Soccernomics (2026 World Cup Edition)

2025-11-08T08:42:58+00:00

タイプ: Soccernomics (2026 World Cup Edition)
価格: 16.99

Discover Why Clubs Really Win and Lose
Updated for the 2026 World Cup

Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski’s Soccernomics stands as the definitive guide to understanding football through the lens of economics, data, and insightful analysis. The authors—Kuper, celebrated Financial Times columnist and William Hill Prize winner, and Szymanski, a respected Professor of Sport Management—deliver an engaging and highly readable exploration of the beautiful game’s greatest mysteries. Soccernomics dissects why football clubs routinely lose money, questions the perceived wisdom surrounding football management, and challenges followers to rethink what they know about football success and global dominance.
In this fresh edition, updated for the 2026 World Cup, Kuper and Szymanski dig deep into the shift of global football power and the growing impact of the MLS, Lionel Messi’s arrival at Inter Miami, and the evolving landscape of American soccer. The authors reveal the hidden forces that shape world football, using rigorous economic models, statistical insight, and a dose of irreverence to smash outdated clichés. Their evidence-based approach provides a unique angle, demonstrating why the sport’s biggest surprises—and failures—often come from off the pitch, rather than on it.
What truly sets Soccernomics apart is Kuper and Szymanski’s knack for weaving stories, psychology, and business logic into one accessible narrative. They are lauded for their clear-headed, provocative style and their ability to illuminate complex subjects without alienating casual fans. Whether considering why England struggles at major tournaments or why clubs persist in making the same costly mistakes, the authors’ research-driven storytelling captivates readers and upends expectations. Kuper’s journalistic skill complements Szymanski’s academic rigour, offering a text as instructive for industry insiders as it is entertaining for supporters.
This new World Cup edition cements Soccernomics as essential reading for football fans, analysts, and curious minds alike. By examining the intersection of sport, society, and statistics, Kuper and Szymanski empower readers to look beyond the surface of the global game, appreciating the hidden economics and psychological drivers behind every kick. Soccernomics is not simply about football—it fundamentally changes how we see the world’s most popular sport.
●"Soccernomics [is] a sharply written and provocative examination of the world's game seen through the prism of economics and statistical data. It demolishes almost everything that most soccer fans believe about the game and how professional soccer teams should operate." – Globe and Mail (Canada)
●"Soccernomics . . . remains essential reading for anyone seeking an analytical take on the game." – Keeping Score (TIME soccer blog)
●"Soccernomics is the most intelligent book ever written about soccer." – San Francisco Chronicle
●"[Soccernomics] is a sporting tale in the Freakonomics mode of inquiry, using statistics to come up with fascinating conclusions."
– Independent (UK), Best Books of the Year
●"[Kuper and Szymanski] basically trash every cliché about football you ever held to be true. It's bravura stuff... the study of managers buying players and building a club is one you'll feel like photocopying and sending to your team's chairman."
Metro (UK)
●"[Kuper and Szymanski] do for soccer what Moneyball did for baseball--put the game under an analytical microscope using statistics, economics, psychology, and intuition to try to transform a dogmatic sport." – New York Times
●"[Szymanski and Kuper] entertainingly demolish soccer shibboleths. . . . Well argued and clear-headed." – Financial Times, Best Books of the Year
●"Fascinating." – Vanity Fair
●"If you're a football fan, I'll save you some time: read this book ... compulsive reading ... thoroughly convincing." – Daily Telegraph (UK)
●"Many explanations [of England's poor form] can be found in the book Soccernomics in a segment entitled 'Why England Loses.' (This is well worth a read for any English football fan; essentially, you overvalue your football heritage and undervalue the benefits of innovation.)"
– Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomics
●"Oh, Rooney's the best. [My son] Ben thinks that England might be in the top four, but that's it. He knows the starting line up of every European team. We're reading this very interesting book about football together, you know Soccernomics."
– Lorrie Moore, author of A Gate at the Stairs
●"Quite an entertaining read." – Simply Futbol
●"Since the publication of the first edition of Soccernomics there have been several attempts to copy its content. Yet few authors in the world of soccer writing can tell a human story like Simon Kuper, and even fewer academics can write an understandable narrative with numbers like Stefan Szymanski. Together the two men raise the bar again, bringing new insights to an already great body of work that is accessible and interesting to the quant and casual reader alike. . . . I highly recommend you pick it up for yourself, even if you have already read the first edition. You will not be disappointed." – Forbes
●"Szymanksi has recently published the best introduction to sports economics... while Kuper is probably the smartest of the new generation of super-smart sportswriters... fascinating stories." – Observer (UK)
●"The authors take what 'everybody' knows about success and failure in soccer and subject it to rigorous empirical analysis embedded in good stories that carry the narrative along. . . . Highly recommended." – Choice
●"Using data analysis, history and psychology, [Soccernomics] punctures dozens of clichés about what it takes to win, and who makes money in soccer--and in sports in general." – Associated Press
●"With Soccernomics, the FT's indispensable Simon Kuper and top-flight sports economist Stefan Szymanski bring scrupulous economic analysis and statistical rigour to a sport long dependent on hoary--and, it seems, unfounded--assumptions. . . . Gripping and essential."
– Slate, Best Books of the Year
●"Wonderful book." – Pro Soccer Talk (NBC Sports blog)
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Publisher: Great Book Selection – Visit BOLD TYPE BOOKS
Published: May 5, 2026
Price: £16.99
Hardback: 496 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1645030775
Dimensions: 139 x 209 (mm)