ABSTRACT
The literature on the economics of professional team sports has grown rapidly since articles first started to appear in the 1950s. Most of the literature has been generated in North America and deals mainly with issues of restriction of competition in the product and labour markets that characterise major American professional team sports, American football, baseball, ice-hockey and basketball. Much of the analysis developed in North America has also been applied to UK professional team sports, in particular to football and cricket.
