Study On Income Distribution System Of England’s Top Professional Soccer League In The Perspective Of Historical Institutionalism

Professional sport plays an important role in the development of modern sports.And professional sports leagues were regarded as professional sport in the most effective and fundamental institutional mechanism,its core is the Club of principal-agent relationship between the Union and makes them into a community of interests.Common interests are through the system of income distribution within the Union to coordinate.This article in the perspective of historical institutionalism,study the system of income distribution in English football’s premier League,evolution process and mechanism analysis on intrinsic motivation and external conditions of the evolution of income distribution system,as well as the income distribution system in coordination relationship between clubs and Union.The evolution of the income distribution system of the top professional soccer league in England has undergone a start-up period focusing on the fair distribution of the ticket revenue distribution,the league big club interest game period and the Premier League period.Throughout the course of historical evolution,the establishment of the system is based on uneven distribution of resources generated.It is because of the uneven distribution of resources,only need to compromise the interests of the main body,and in the form of a system to be cured.Under the influence of internal and external factors,the interests of the main and the relationship between the change.Due to changes in the environment,the system itself will continue to self-strengthening,in order to maintain the existing interests.And this process of strengthening itself is the process of institutional change.This paper analyzes the inherent motivation and external conditions of the evolution of the income distribution system,and the way of the income distribution system to coordinate the interests of the club and the alliance.In three different periods,England’s top professional soccer league income distribution system embodies the characteristics of different institutional evolution.In the beginning of the professional league until the twentieth century,the sixties,the distribution of income is mainly the ticket revenue,based on the principle of competitive balance,the league always adhere to the relative distribution of the average way,that is,home and away team scores per ticket revenue.In the late 1960 s to the late 1980 s,the social changes in England were dramatic,and the distributable income increased,including television revenues,league sponsors,and the team’s operating costs were more apparent in the big clubs,This led to the big club to promote the income distribution system changes,after several games and evolution,the final formation of the Premiership independent and new income distribution system.Although the Premiership is the product of the low-level professional club,but within the Premier League,the income distribution system is more focused on the principle of competitive balance,a sports league interest groups,always need to maintain the club’s competitive balance to maintain the club’s mutual benefit.What’s more,the essay is to explore problems of income distribution system in its evolution,devoting to exploring institutional historical and social reason of income distribution system’s problem in Chinese professional football,and extensive research on operating mechanism of professional sports league.