This study explores, in the case of two soccer teams playing against each other twice in a
knock out system, whether it is more advantageous to enjoy home advantage in the first …

The aim of the current study was to identify how the performances of home and away teams
evolve during the first half of matches and to investigate whether or not the home advantage …

The aim of the current study was to examine the importance of scoring the first goal on the
match outcome in football and to determine if this influence depends on the minute in which …

Previous research on the advantage experienced by soccer teams playing the second leg of
a knock-out confrontation at home yielded ambiguous evidence. Some studies confirmed …

Soccer teams in balanced competitions achieving better results when playing at home than
away from home, is a consistent finding. The mean home winning advantages of up to over …

Home advantage as it relates to team performance at football was examined in Superleague
Greece using nine seasons of game-by-game performance data, a total of 2160 matches …

Objectives The possibility that home teams might choke in decisive games of championship
series was first proposed by Baumeister and Steinhilber in 1984. Their hypothesis was that …

In all professional team sports, the team playing at home derives an advantage, so, the
home advantage is an important factor to consider in the competition sport. The home …

The existence of home advantage has been established for all major professional team
sports in England and North America. The advantage was found to be greatest in soccer …

Using the results from the end‐of‐season (1992–93) league tables, overall home advantage
was confirmed in the eight major divisions of the English and Scottish football leagues. The …