The relationship between the level of economic development, the scale of youth football development and competitive strength in Chinese provinces.

The study found that after controlling for total population size and youth population size, per capita disposable income showed a marginally significant positive correlation with both the number of top teams ( r = 0.320, P = 0.091) and the number of elite teams ( r = 0.359, P = 0.056); GDP ( r = 0.458, P = 0.012), per capita GDP ( r = 0.466, P = 0.011), per capita disposable income ( r = 0.414, P = 0.026), and per capita consumption expenditure ( r = 0.412, P = 0.026) all exhibited a moderately significant positive correlation with the number of social youth training institutions; per capita disposable income ( r = −0.469, P = 0.010) and per capita consumption expenditure ( r = −0.448, P = 0.015) showed a moderately significant negative correlation with the number of featured schools; the level of cl

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