Home advantage in soccer – A matter of expectations, goal setting and tactical decisions of coaches?

Staufenbiel, Kathrin; Lobinger, Babett; Strauß, Bernd

doi:10.1080/02640414.2015.1018929

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“…The general scientific evidence supports the fact that teams implement a more offensive style of play and achieve more goals [46] and more effectiveness to create scoring opportunities [22] when playing at home rather than away. The study of Staufenbiel, Lobinger and Strauss [47] found how coaches had greater winning expectative, established more ambitious objectives and a more offensive strategy when playing at home. This fact may be related to the higher offensive deployment in terms of more shots, dribbles and passes [48], as well as more complex and structured attacking patterns [49].…”

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Playing tactics, contextual variables and offensive effectiveness in English Premier League soccer matches. A multilevel analysis

González-Ródenas¹,

Aranda-Malavés²,

Tudela-Desantes³

et al. 2020

PLoS ONE

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The aim of this study was to investigate the combined effects of tactical and contextual indicators on achieving offensive penetration and scoring opportunities in English Premier League (EPL) soccer matches. A total of 1971 team possessions from 20 random matches were evaluated by means of multidimensional observation. The EPL matches had a great proportion of fast attacks (36.0%) followed by combinative (29.6%), direct attacks (24.1%) and counterattacks (9.5%). Multilevel logistic regression models revealed that counterattacks (OR = 3.428; 95% CI: 2.004-5.864; P<0.001) were more effective to create goal scoring opportunities than combinative attacks, while direct attacks showed to be less effective (OR = 0.472; 95% CI: 0.264-0.845; P<0.05). Playing at home increased the probability (OR = 1.530; 95% CI: 1.097-2.135; P<0.05) of creating goal scoring opportunities compared with playing away. These findings show the multifactorial character of soccer and how different contextual and tactical indicators can influence the creation of offensive penetration and goal scoring opportunities in the English Premier League.

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Playing tactics, contextual variables and offensive effectiveness in English Premier League soccer matches. A multilevel analysis

González-Ródenas¹,

Aranda-Malavés²,

Tudela-Desantes³

et al. 2020

PLoS ONE

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“…Starting with the seminal work of Schwartz and Stephen [35] in 1977, the "home advantage phenomenon" has motivated several investigations ever since [36][37][38]. A non-exhaustive list of sports where this phenomenon has been found include soccer [39][40][41][42][43][44][45], baseball [46,47], ice hockey [48,49], roller-hockey [50], basketball [51,52], rugby [53], Australian football [54], water polo [55], volleyball [56], handball [57][58][59], and cricket [60]. This effect has also been observed in individual competitions of tennis [61,62], golf [62], Winter Olympics sports [63], Summer Olympics sports [64], and several other individual sports [65].…”

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The Advantage of Playing Home in NBA: Microscopic, Team-Specific and Evolving Features

2016

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The idea that the success rate of a team increases when playing home is broadly accepted and documented for a wide variety of sports. Investigations on the so-called “home advantage phenomenon” date back to the 70’s and ever since has attracted the attention of scholars and sport enthusiasts. These studies have been mainly focused on identifying the phenomenon and trying to correlate it with external factors such as crowd noise and referee bias. Much less is known about the effects of home advantage in the “microscopic” dynamics of the game (within the game) or possible team-specific and evolving features of this phenomenon. Here we present a detailed study of these previous features in the National Basketball Association (NBA). By analyzing play-by-play events of more than sixteen thousand games that span thirteen NBA seasons, we have found that home advantage affects the microscopic dynamics of the game by increasing the scoring rates and decreasing the time intervals between scores of teams playing home. We verified that these two features are different among the NBA teams, for instance, the scoring rate of the Cleveland Cavaliers team is increased ≈0.16 points per minute (on average the seasons 2004–05 to 2013–14) when playing home, whereas for the New Jersey Nets (now the Brooklyn Nets) this rate increases in only ≈0.04 points per minute. We further observed that these microscopic features have evolved over time in a non-trivial manner when analyzing the results team-by-team. However, after averaging over all teams some regularities emerge; in particular, we noticed that the average differences in the scoring rates and in the characteristic times (related to the time intervals between scores) have slightly decreased over time, suggesting a weakening of the phenomenon. This study thus adds evidence of the home advantage phenomenon and contributes to a deeper understanding of this effect over the course of games.

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“…Other studies found that home teams have a more offensive style of play and more attacking production than away teams (Lago-Peñas, & Lago Ballesteros, 2010;Almeida, & Volossovitch, 2017), as well as more complex and structured attacking patterns (Diana, et al, 2017). These findings may be due to the fact that teams have greater winning expectative, more ambitious objectives and a more offensive strategy when playing at home (Staufenbiel, et al, 2015).…”

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The effect of contextual variables on the attacking style of play in professional soccer

González-Ródenas¹,

Aranda²,

Aranda-Malavés³

2020

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The aim of this paper was to investigate the interactive effects of contextual variables on the attacking style of play in professional soccer. 5849 team possessions from 40 random matches from Spanish La Liga and English Premier League 2017-2018 were analysed by means of multidimensional observation. Multilevel multivariate logistic regressions showed that home teams had higher odds of implementing fast attacks (p<.05) and lower odds of implementing direct attacks (p<.05) than combinative attacks. High-ranked teams presented lower odds of using direct attacks (p<.05) than combinative attacks in comparison with low-ranked teams, while playing against high-ranked opponents decreased the probability of implementing fast (p<.05) and direct attacks (p<.05) in comparison with lowranking opponents. As for match status, winning teams presented higher probabilities of attacking by means of counterattacks (p<.001) and direct attacks (p<.001) than combinative attacks compared to losing teams. Finally, playing during the second half presented higher odds of progressing by counterattacks (p<.01) than by combinative attacks. Our results suggest that tactical analysts, coaches and researchers should consider the interactive effects of contextual variables on the teams' style of play when evaluating the offensive performance in professional soccer.

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Home advantage in soccer – A matter of expectations, goal setting and tactical decisions of coaches?

Cited by 72 publications

References 41 publications

Playing tactics, contextual variables and offensive effectiveness in English Premier League soccer matches. A multilevel analysis

Playing tactics, contextual variables and offensive effectiveness in English Premier League soccer matches. A multilevel analysis

The Advantage of Playing Home in NBA: Microscopic, Team-Specific and Evolving Features

The effect of contextual variables on the attacking style of play in professional soccer

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