Průběh hospodářského cyklu a jeho vliv na příjmy vybraných fotbalových klubů v Evropě v období 2006 - 2016

This thesis deals with the relationship of the business cycle in selected European countries and the income of professional football clubs in the period 2006-2016. The target of the thesis is to find whether individual clubs are forced to work with fluctuations in the national economy in today's global popularity of football as such. Given the period selected, it was possible to monitor the fluctuations in the business cycle in all countries under review and to put them into a single framework through analysis and comparison.In the theoretical part the work deals with the definition of the company, the specifics of sports companies, then compares the North American and European sports model and describes the individual components of the income of each club, so that they correspond to the practical part. Furthermore, the business cycle, its causes and indicators are analyzed.In the practical part of the thesis there is a selection of individual countries and a view of the European economy in the given period. In the next section are then selected clubs, which are subsequently characterized on the revenue side of their budgets. This is followed by a description of the business cycle of each country and a subsequent analysis supported by a correlation analysis. The methods used are mainly observation, analysis, comparison and correlation analysis.