Can we be satisfied with our football team? Evidence from spanish professional football González Gómez, Francisco José Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J. Spanish football League Specific-competition performance Data envelopment analysis This paper assesses the sporting performance of Spanish professional football teams at competition level, namely, League, King’s Cup and European competitions (Champions League and UEFA Cup). Then, the gap between the result obtained by a team in a given competition and that expected according to its potential is used as a proxy of the degree of satisfaction that fans should feel: the narrower the gap the greater the level of satisfaction. Regarding methodology, Data Envelopment Analysis techniques and directional distance functions are used. Results reveal that most teams perform rather differently across competitions, the lower average performance corresponding to the King’s Cup. 2014-05-02T12:47:19Z 2014-05-02T12:47:19Z 2008 info:eu-repo/semantics/report González-Gómez, F.; Picazo Tadeo, A.J. Can we be satisfied with our football team? Evidence from spanish professional football. Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica (2008). (The Papers; 08/11). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31519] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31519 eng The Papers;08/11 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica