Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence From Same-Stadium Derbies

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Home advantage in European international soccer: which dimension of distance matters?

“…Third, we found that the home advantage in soccer is more outspoken when the number of spectators is higher and when the home team is substantially stronger (in terms of UEFA coefficient) than the away team. These findings are consistent with Nevill et al (1996), Goumas (2013), Ponzo and Scoppa (2018), and . Finally, no significant association was found with variables capturing derby matches and variables portraying the home advantage at the national level.…”

“…For more information on the regulations of the two competitions and the rules of a soccer match, we refer to the UEFA website (http://www.uefa.com) and to FIFA (2017). Following the approach used by Ponzo and Scoppa (2018), we considered each match twice in our data, one time from the perspective of the home team and one time from the perspective of the away team. This generated a total of 4,024 observations at the team-match level.…”

“…Several of the aforementioned studies have investigated the moderators of the home advantage in soccer. Among the most discussed factors influencing this home advantage are: (i) crowd effects (Nevill et al, 1996;Pollard and Pollard, 2005a;Sánchez et al, 2009;Oberhofer et al, 2010;Goumas, 2013;Ponzo and Scoppa, 2018;; (ii) referee bias (Nevill et al, 1996;Sutter & Kocher, 2004;Nevill et al, 2013); (iii) territoriality effects (Neave and Wolfson, 2003;Pollard, 2006aPollard, , 2006bPollard et al, 2008;Seckin and Pollard, 2008;Armatas and Pollard, 2012;Gómez, 2013, 2014;; (iv) travel effects (Clarke and Norman, 1995;McSharry, 2007;Pollard et al, 2008;Oberhofer et al, 2010;Armatas and Pollard, 2012;Bäker et al, 2012;Goumas, 2014aGoumas, , 2014b; and (v) familiarity effects (Pollard, 2002;Watson and Krantz, 2003;2014;.…”

Artificial Pitches and Unfair Home Advantage in Professional Football

“…This home advantage is mainly attributed to the support of the home crowd in combination with possibly biased referee decisions, players' familiarity with their stadium and travel fatigue of the away team (see, for example, Clarke and Norman (1995), Pollard (2006), Pollard and Armatas (2017) and Ponzo and Scoppa (2017)). Whether or not an artificial pitch introduces an additional home advantage has rarely been investigated.…”

A Note on Artificial Pitches and Home Advantage in Dutch Professional Football

“…For the highest German league, Buraimo et al (2010) find that teams that play in stadiums with running tracks have a smaller referee bias which they attribute to a bigger distance between play and audience. Ponzo and Scoppa (2018) analyze same-stadium derbies across Europe, i.e. matches between teams that share the same stadium.…”