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Game System of the Czech Squash Extra League
Vorlíček, Ondřej ; Ruda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Krause, Veronika (referee)
Title: Game System of the Czech Squash Extraleague Objectives: The main objective of this bachelor thesis is to propose modifications to the game system of the Czech Squash Extraleague. The modifications should improve the organisation, raise the attractiveness, and increase the players' satisfaction with the competition. Methods: Electronic questioning, specifically Computer Assisted Web Interviewing method was used. It collected primary data for this work. A five-point Likert scale was used in the questionnaire to measure the opinions of the respondents. The second used method was document analysis, which examined secondary data in the form of competition regulations and documents issued by the Czech Squash Association. Results: Even though Czech Squash has been successful at the international level in recent years, the popularity of squash in the Czech Republic is declining. The most prestigious Czech squash league is not attractive. Through the research in this thesis was found that the players are unsatisfied with the current game system of the Czech Squash Extraleague. On the other hand, they were pleased with Mixed League system that was tested during the 2022/23 season and they agreed that it has the potential to become the main Czech squash competition in the future. Several suggestions...
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Business plan for a football camp for children
Martinec, Vojtěch ; Ruda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Krause, Veronika (referee)
Author: Vojtěch Martinec Title: Business planfor a football camp for children Goal: The main objective of the thesis is to create a business plan, which in the context of the analysis of the external and internal environment will serve as a basis for the creation of a new business strategy of the Broumov football school. Methods: In this thesis, qualitative research methods are used, which include a literature search on business plan development and business analysis. Several analyses were conducted to obtain sufficient data. Descriptive document and marketing mix analysis, financial analysis and PEST analysis were used. The information from these analyses was summarized and evaluated using SWOT analysis. Based on the outputs of these analyses, recommendations for adjusting the strategy were made. Results: The result of the work is the proposed recommendations that could lead to an increase in the number of customers. Other recommendations are suggestions that will help to increase the revenue generated from the business itself. Keywords: leisure activities, leisure time, children, sports camps, business plan, financial plan
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Ronovský, Adam ; Ruda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Krause, Veronika (referee)
Title: The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the economy of selected clubs in Czech hockey league. Objectives: The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on the economy of clubs HC Sparta Prague and Mountfield Hradec Králové. Methods: The main methods that were used in this paper were analysis and usage of instruments of financial analysis to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the economy of said clubs. Another method used in this paper was an interview with representatives of mentioned clubs. Results: From conducted research shows that the pandemic had a direct impact on clubs economics. The biggest impact that the pandemic had was on revenues of the club, mostly tickets sales were affected, because spectators could not attend matches. The biggest decrease of revenues was from ticket sales, year-on-year decrease od revenues was in club HC Sparta Praha 79,03 %, which is equal to 26,15 milions CZK, in team Mountfield HK this decrease was 66,26 %, which is equal to 12,35 milions CZK. Other area of revenues that was affected were revenues from promotion and advertisement - HC Sparta Praha year-on-year result was lower by 29,60 mil. CZK (21,3 %) and Mountfield HK by 6,68 mil. CZK (9,5 %) Because of said impact the clubs had to face a challenge to find enough funds to...
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Analysis and forecast of prize money development in selected sports taking into account unexpected external influences
Tocháčková, Tereza ; Štědroň, Jakub (advisor) ; Krause, Veronika (referee)
Title: Analysis and forecast of the development of prize money in selected sports, taking into account unexpected external influences. Objectives: The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the development of prize money at the largest sporting events - tennis, golf and biathlon, and then create a forecast until 2033. A partial objective is to consider the effects of unexpected external influences (covid-19 and the war between Russia and Ukraine) on the prize money in recent years, which significantly affected the prize money. Methods used: Quantitative prognostic methods in the Excel program were used to compile the forecast of selected sports events. Using a linear and exponential trend line, the future course of the monitored development was recorded. In most cases, the exponential trend line, which showed a higher R2 reliability value, had a higher predictive value. Results: The result is a forecast of the development of prize money at the largest sporting events of tennis, golf and biathlon and an assessment of external influences (covid and the war between Russia and Ukraine) on their development. Key words: tennis, golf, biathlon, finance, sponsoring, prize money, forecast, covid-19, forecasting methods, analysis
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Evaluation of the organization of a chosen sport event
Fančovičová, Kristína ; Crossan, William Morea (advisor) ; Krause, Veronika (referee)
Title: Evaluation of a selected sport event - The European U18 Baseball Championship Objectives: The objective of this master thesis is to present the strengths and weaknesses of the organization of the European Junior Baseball Championships (European U18 Championship) held in August 2022. Furthermore, based on the information gathered from interviews, observations and participant surveys, to identify opportunities proposing implementation, as well as to identify threats and proposing their elimination for the future organization of tournaments in the Czech Republic. Methods: The master thesis uses three research methods (semi-structured interviews, participant observation, questionnaire survey) and one analytical method (SWOT analysis). The views of the participants of the event are gathered through an electronic questionnaire sent to the emails of all participants of the U18 European Championship in 2022. The organizers' views on the preparations and the course of the tournament are obtained through semi-structured interviews conducted with two members of the Czech Baseball Association's organizing team. Participant observation conducted by two independent researchers at the tournament venues (13-20 August 2022) during the tournament dates provides an overall picture of the U18 European...
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Dynamic competitive balance of the highest football leagues in selected European countries
Chocholouš, Vojtěch ; Šíma, Jan (advisor) ; Krause, Veronika (referee)
Title: Dynamic competitive balance of the highest football leagues in selected European countries. Objectives: The main objective of the thesis is to identify the dynamic competitive balance in the first and second leagues in selected European countries and to outline their development trend. The first sub-objective of the thesis is to compare the dynamic competitive balance of the investigated competitions with each other. The second sub-objective of the thesis is to compare the results of dynamic competitive balance with those obtained by the static method of competitive balance. Methods: This thesis calculates dynamic competiitve balance using the Pearson correlation coefficient. Results: The results show that the first leagues are usually less balanced than the second highest leagues. The result also shows that the first leagues reports an increasing tendency of competitive imbalance. The only exception is the top Polish league. On the other hand, most of the second leagues reports a decreasing tendency of competitive imbalance. The exceptions are the second Spanish and Polish leagues. The Portuguese second league appears to be the most evenly balanced competition, followed by the Spanish second league. The least balanced leagues are the First Dutch League and the First English League....
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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the budgets of selected clubs in the Premier League
Zelinka, David ; Šíma, Jan (advisor) ; Krause, Veronika (referee)
Title: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the budgets of selected clubs in the Premier League Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to determine the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the budgets and management of selected clubs in the Premier League. Methods: Qualitative methods of data collection were used in the thesis. Specifically, the method of document analysis (examination) and the method of data envelopment analysis DEA were used. The results were captured using graphs and tables. Results: The collected data revealed the disparate impact of the pandemic on the budgets of selected clubs in the Premier League. In absolute terms, the pandemic has hit the big six clubs hardest. The loss of revenue from ticket sales represented the biggest blow to the clubs' budgets. The largest revenue component: TV rights, was not significantly affected. The commercial revenue as the third main revenue item showed overwhelmingly an upward trend despite the pandemic. The expenditure component, consisting mainly of wages and operating expenses, has generally increased for the former and decreased for the latter, notwithstanding the pandemic. The DEA analysis found out that the least efficient teams (Everton FC, Crystal Palace FC) often recorded the loss in the seasons prior to the pandemic. This indicates...
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Evaluation of efficiency of professional football clubs
Krause, Veronika ; Šíma, Jan (advisor) ; Voráček, Josef (referee)
Title: Evaluation of efficiency of professional football clubs Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to identify the efficiency of English Premier League football clubs in the 2015/16 to 2018/19 seasons using two selected data envelopment analysis models and compare the results. Subsequently, to define what optimisation of inputs and outputs would lead to maximum efficiency. Methods: The method of data envelopment analysis, based on linear programming, was used to determine the effectiveness. There were chosen two approaches to this method, each with a different set of inputs and outputs, both assuming variable returns to scale and focusing on inputs. Results: Two clubs were identified as being maximally effective throughout the whole period. Some relegated clubs were also rated as 100% efficient. The optimization of the variables primarily proposed a reduction of inputs. Keywords: football, efficiency, data envelopment analysis, decision making unit, DEA-BCC
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Financing of the biathlon and skiing club
Krause, Veronika ; Šíma, Jan (advisor) ; Voráček, Josef (referee)
Title: Financing of the biathlon and skiing club Objectives: The aim of this bachelor thesis is to identify financial resources which are used to fund the activities of the club, and to find particular failures of their funding. Afterwards is the aim to create recommendation to improve their funding. Methods: The main method used in this thesis is qualitative method, specifically interviews with employee of office of Prague 5 and with delegate from the club. The descriptive analysis of detected data was used too. Results: From the interview with the delegate of the club and the analysis of data I realized that the club is not using sponsorship to fund their activities. The club is also not using the grant from Prague 2. It was recommended to the club to ask for the grant from Prague 2 and a sponsorship packet was created to help the club to get a sponsor. Keywords: Subsidy, grant, nonprofit organization, sponsorship
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