Disconnects between popular discourse and home advantage research: What can fans and media tell us about the home advantage phenomenon?

Smith, Douglas R.

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“…They speculated that females might perceive their home venue more as a public place and less as a home territory to be protected. Smith (2005) noted that home advantage was seldom mentioned in popular discussion of women's teams. He then suggested that the protection of home territory, arousal from crowd noise and increased self-confidence at home were not usually seen as feminine qualities.…”

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Comparison of home advantage in men's and women's football leagues in Europe

Pollard¹,

Gómez²

2012

European Journal of Sport Science

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Most research into home advantage is based on men's sports. This article analyses home advantage in the women's domestic football leagues of Europe and makes a comparison with the corresponding men's football leagues. A total of 47,042 games were included. From 2004 to 2010, home advantage existed in the domestic women's soccer leagues of all 26 European countries analysed, ranging from 51.0% to 58.8% and averaging 54.2%. In every country, this was less than the corresponding men's home advantage which averaged 60.0%. Crowd effects, both on players and referees, and different gender perceptions of territorial protection are plausible reasons for the differences found. Using a regression model that controlled for the competitive balance of each league, as well as for crowd size, the Gender Gap Index, which quantifies the status of women in each country, was a significant predictor of the difference between men's and women's home advantage. As the status of women becomes closer to that of men within a country, the difference in home advantage is less between the men's and women's football leagues.

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Comparison of home advantage in men's and women's football leagues in Europe

Pollard¹,

Gómez²

2012

European Journal of Sport Science

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“…3,7 Regarding the social bonding and teamcommunity relationship in sport, Smith asserted that fans were less likely to see a women's team as being representative of the local community than a men's team. 29 Consequently, in the HA context, we can expect to see less crowd support for women's matches and less hostility toward women's opponents and referees. Pollard et al demonstrated that, of 193 domestic sports leagues worldwide with average attendances of over 1,500 per match in 2015, only three were women's leagues.…”

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Incorporating Socio-Cultural Variables Into Calculations of Home Advantage in Women’s Sport: A New Framework

Leite

2023

J Wom Sports Med

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Home advantage (HA) is heavily researched in sports science, but the vast majority of prior studies have analyzed men's sports. Very few have either analyzed women’s sports competitions or compared HA results between men’s and women’s sports. Our aim in this paper was to show the importance of socio-cultural variables in calculating HA for women's sports. The HA gender gap (HAGG) may be linked in part to such socio-cultural predictors as gender equality, cultural globalization that may modulate competitive behaviour in women's sports and changes in the observed HA rates. We seek to advance a new proposed framework for calculating HA in women's sport and/or comparing HA across women’s and men's sports.

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“…Social support theory (Leifer, 1995; Mizruchi, 1985) and written theory (Ward, 1998), both provide sociological theories on how crowds may have an impact on the outcome of a competition. Crowds can motivate athletes to overachieve, create a supportive social environment for teams and players, or symbolically foster a sense of ritual that provides an advantage to the home team (Smith, 2005). In addition, Pollard (1986), who has been working on the issue of HA in sporting competitions for years, also argues that “football HA is greatest in leagues and tournaments with large spectator numbers”.…”

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Home Advantage and its Influencing Factors in FIFA World Cup Asian Qualification

Liu

2023

Cross-Cultural Research

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To investigate home advantage in the FIFA World Cup Asian qualification, 508 matches in the group stage of World Cup qualifying in a total of five Asian Zone World Cup qualifying tournaments from 2006–2022 were analysed. It was found that home advantage exists in the Asian Zone World Cup qualifiers as a whole (59.9%), with home advantage at the regional level ranging from high to low in South Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia, East Asia and Central Asia; Turkmenistan is the country with the highest home advantage, reflecting its exceptional nature. At the individual match level, three factors of Country, Subregion and Year were adjusted by putting them into a multilevel model as random effects, meanwhile, a multi-level model with home points as the dependent variable and the rest as predictor variables also fit well ( R2 = .382). The results show that time zone and climate are significantly correlated with home points after controlling for team quality (both p < .05), i.e., travel and climate were key factors influencing the Asian Zone World Cup qualifiers. Altitude, referee bias, crowd and cultural dimensions were not significant influencing factors for home advantage. As cultural dimensions that significantly affect the home advantage in domestic leagues, corruption, ethnic fractionalisation and conflict did not have a significant impact on the home advantage of the Asian qualifiers, indicating that their roles may not be applicable to international competition settings, at least in the Asian qualifiers.

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Disconnects between popular discourse and home advantage research: What can fans and media tell us about the home advantage phenomenon?

Cited by 34 publications

References 35 publications

Comparison of home advantage in men's and women's football leagues in Europe

Comparison of home advantage in men's and women's football leagues in Europe

Incorporating Socio-Cultural Variables Into Calculations of Home Advantage in Women’s Sport: A New Framework

Home Advantage and its Influencing Factors in FIFA World Cup Asian Qualification

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