Szymanski dismissed the entire football-soccer debate as silly. “In countries where you have other versions of football, the word soccer is just the most sensible word to use,” he said.

Since they can’t turn the football pyramid into a science fair project, researchers have to come at the question in more creative ways. The simplest is the case laid out by Szymanski and Simon ...

The FIFA World Cup is underway so this is a timely reminder of why Americans say soccer rather than football — it ... according to a 2014 paper by University of Michigan professor Stefan Szymanski.

Chelsea have spent roughly £5m per Premier League point since their 2022 takeover, compared to just over £1m by Brentford ...

As Stefan Szymanski and Silke-Maria Weineck wrote in their book It’s Football, Not Soccer (And Vice Versa), “In general, transatlantic relations have remained peaceful when it comes to ...

The Club World Cup pits pro soccer teams from around the world against each other — which might be part of the problem.

Football is now into double figures in terms of books that have attempted to be football’s Moneyball — from Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski’s Soccernomics to David Sumpter’s Soccermatics.