Abstract
The content of this article is to compare overall market values of football national representations which took part in UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland and the Ukraine. The size of team market value is determined by a summarization of all the team players' market value regardless of their participation in matches.
The highest market value was achieved by the national team of Spain, the lowest by the national team of Ireland. The overall team market value is related to success (failure) at EURO 2012 which is expressed by a total amount of points gained.
There is an evident strong influence of team market value on the result gained at UEFA EURO 2012 based on the results of regression and correlation analysis. The value of correlation coefficient is 0,78.
Another target was determining the effectiveness of national football teams at UEFA EURO 2012 as a proportion of the representation quality and the overall amount of points gained at the tournament. From this point of view the most effective team was the Czech football representation, the least effective was the Dutch representation.