Calculating Home Advantage in the First Decade of the 21th Century UEFA Soccer Leagues

• Authors: Miguel Saavedra García , Óscar Gutiérrez Aguilar , Paulo Sa Marques , Gabriel Torres Tobío , Juan J. Fernández Romero
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Home advantage has been studied in different sports, establishing its existence and its possible causes. This article analyzes the home advantage in soccer leagues of UEFA countries in the first part of the 21st century. The sample of 52 countries monitored during a period of 10 years allows us to study 520 leagues and 111,030 matches of the highest level in each country associated with UEFA. Home advantage exists and is significant in 32 of the 52 UEFA countries, where it equals 55.6%. A decrease can be observed in the tendency towards home advantage between the years 2000 and 2010. Values between 55 and 56 were observed for home advantage in the top ten leagues in Europe. It has also been observed that home advantage depends on the level of the league evaluated using UEFA’s 2010/11 Country coefficients. The home advantage is calculated taking into account the teams’ position and the points obtained in each of the leagues. A direct relationship was observed with the number of points gained and an inverse relationship was observed with the team position.

Keywords

EN

Home advantage; football; UEFA; performance analysis

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Journal of Human Kinetics
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 38
• Pages: 141-150

Dates

published

1 - 09 - 2013

online

08 - 10 - 2013

Contributors

author

Miguel Saavedra García

• Sports Science and Physical Activity Faculty, University of A Coruña (Spain)

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Óscar Gutiérrez Aguilar

• University Miguel Hernández of Elche (Spain)

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Paulo Sa Marques

• Maia Higer Institute (Portugal)

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Gabriel Torres Tobío

• Sports Science and Physical Activity Faculty, University of A Coruña (Spain)

author

Juan J. Fernández Romero

• Sports Science and Physical Activity Faculty, University of A Coruña (Spain)

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/hukin-2013-0054