Home team’s advantage reduced without crowd support after the COVID-19 outbreak

Martins, Helgem de Souza Ribeiro; Duarte, Anderson Ribeiro; Barbosa, Josino José; Souza, G. L.

doi:10.1080/14660970.2022.2088526

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“…Several top European leagues showed substantially reduced home advantage (De Angelis & Reade, 2023;Scoppa, 2021). Declines occurred in overall goals (Martins, Duarte, Barbosa, & Souza, 2023) and home goals (Cross & Uhrig, 2023). Home teams secured fewer points while receiving more cards (Leitner & Richlan, 2021a).…”

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Is crowd support important in professional football’s home advantage? A systematic review based on covid-19 effect

José Fernández-Cortés,

Carlos D. Gómez-Carmona,

Javier García-Rubio

et al. 2024

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The COVID-19 pandemic enabled a natural experiment examining how spectator absence impacted home advantage in football. This systematic review analysed research characterizing home advantage dynamics with no fans present across diverse leagues worldwide. The aim was assessing the profile, trends, methodologies, procedures, and developments in this emerging field. Searches in specialized databases identified 50 relevant studies following PRISMA guidelines. These works were systematically assessed to extract key details related to design, country, competition level, analytic approach, performance variables, and home advantage findings. Overall methodological quality was categorized as excellent. Most research occurred in top European men's leagues, with limited attention to other levels. Predictive (58%) and descriptive (36%) investigations predominated, chiefly utilizing regression and group comparisons. Points, goals, cards, and result were the primary metrics. Results demonstrated home advantage decreases without spectators in most leagues, conforming to social facilitation theories stipulating performance declines minus audience encouragement. Additional research is warranted across female competitions, youth categories, amateur settings, and knockout tournament stages. Maintaining methodological rigor while expanding domains will solidify understanding of this intricate phenomenon to guide teams performing both home and away.

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Is crowd support important in professional football’s home advantage? A systematic review based on covid-19 effect

José Fernández-Cortés,

Carlos D. Gómez-Carmona,

Javier García-Rubio

et al. 2024

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Scientific method for assessing "Real Madrid DNA": merely a catchy journalistic term or reality?

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2024

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<abstract> The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the frequent references to "Real Madrid DNA", when a team comes from behind in the last minutes of a match, could be understood as merely a journalistic surrogate for truth or having simply degenerated into a catchy phrase without much meaning. We took, as a case study, clubs playing in the top division of the Spanish league between the 2010–2011 and 2021-2022 seasons, resulting in an unbalanced panel with 34 clubs that played at least one season in that category. As for the methodology, a variable was created to measure the percentage of times a club comes from behind in the last minutes of a match and explained using a model that included the economic power of the club, other match-specific variables, and fixed effects to assess whether a differentiating effect for Real Madrid (RM) was detected. Concerning empirical findings, it can be asserted that RM's undoubted ability to improve its results in the final stretch of matches comes mainly from money but also from something else hard to explain. Put differently, finding support to RM having something special, which we can refer to as its DNA. RM's fixed effect is not only positive and different from zero but also higher than any other team. Indeed, it differs from the remaining ones from a statistical point of view. </abstract>

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Home team’s advantage reduced without crowd support after the COVID-19 outbreak

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Is crowd support important in professional football’s home advantage? A systematic review based on covid-19 effect<b></b>

Scientific method for assessing "Real Madrid DNA": merely a catchy journalistic term or reality?

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