Let's meet as usual: Do games played on non-frequent days differ? Evidence from top European soccer leagues

Goller, Daniel; Krumer, Alex

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2020.03.062

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“…This is attributed to a smaller stadium crowd and the psychological effect that players consider midweek matches less relevant. In line with this, Goller and Krumer (2020) conclude that in the top German, Spanish, French, and English football leagues home advantage is affected by the day of play. Non-frequently played days also have a lower attendance than frequently played days.…”

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Seasonal Home Advantage in English Professional Football; 1973-2018

Peeters

Ours

2020

SSRN Journal

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We study seasonal home advantage in English professional football over the period 1974 to 2018. We distinguish between absolute home advantage, enjoyed equally by all teams in a division, and relative home advantage, which differs among teams in the division. We find that absolute home advantage is substantial, ranging from 0.59 to 0.64 in terms of points per game or 0.44 to 0.46 in terms of goal difference. Likewise, clubs differ substantially in the relative home advantage they enjoy. Relative home advantage is positively related to within-team variation in attendance and the use of an artificial pitch. Despite big cross-divisional differences in attendance, absolute home advantage is about the same in all divisions. Finally, there is a substantial decline in absolute home advantage over time that materializes equally across divisions.

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Seasonal Home Advantage in English Professional Football; 1973-2018

Peeters

Ours

2020

SSRN Journal

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“…Similarly, Clarke and Norman (1995) find that the home advantage varies little over the four divisions in England. In contrast to these findings, Goller and Krumer (2020) find that in matches played in non-standard days the attendance is lower and the home advantage for the underdogs reduces and Ponzo and Scoppa (2018) show that in samestadium derbies (matches among teams that share the same stadium and so do not differ in terms of familiarity with the stadium or travel fatigue) the home team enjoys a significant advantage due to a greater support from the crowd and biased referee's decisions.…”

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Social pressure in the stadiums: Do agents change behavior without crowd support?

Scoppa

2021

Journal of Economic Psychology

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Social pressure may have relevant consequences in many contexts but it is hard to evaluate it empirically. In this paper we exploit a natural experiment in soccer to provide clear evidence of its effects. We aim to study how social pressure from the crowd in a stadium affects both players and referees. While in normal matches crowd support may be correlated to a host of variables affecting the outcome of interest, we exploit the fact that after the health emergency for the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, soccer matches in top European Leagues have been allowed only behind closed doors, that is, without spectators in the stadiums. We use data of first and second division of 5 major European Leagues (Germany, Spain, England, Italy and Portugal) for the last 10 championships and compare several outcomes (determined by players' performance and referees' decisions) of matches played with crowd support to the same outcomes when matches were played without crowd. We find considerable effects of the pressure from the crowd: while with the support of the crowd a considerable home advantage emerges in various measures of performance (points, goals, shots, etc.), this advantage is almost halved when matches are behind closed doors. Similar effects are found for the behavior of referees: decisions of fouls, yellow cards, red cards and penalties that tend to favor home teams in normal matches, are much more balanced without crowd pressing on referees. The evidence we provide strongly supports the idea that social pressure has intense effects on agents' behavior.

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“…as diverse as a corruption scandal (Buraimo et al, 2016), an influenza virus outbreak (Gitter, 2017), college football player protests , increasing terror alert levels (Kalist, 2010), or the announcement of performance-enhancing drug violations (Cisyk & Courty, 2017). Interestingly, though frequently included as control variables, only a few authors have centered their study on the potential effects of match fixtures/scheduling (Goller & Krumer, 2020;Krumer, 2020;Paul et al, 2004) or both environmental effects and the weather (e.g., Cairns, 1984;Ge et al, 2020;Ito et al, 2016). Among the latter, Watanabe et al 2019, for instance, explored the potential role of air pollution in shaping stadium attendance demand in the Chinese Super League, thus paving an interesting new way towards a better understanding of how spectators respond to potential health threats on matchday -a theme that will certainly gain more importance in the future (e.g., Reade et al, 2020b).…”

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Stadium Attendance Demand Research: A Scoping Review

Schreyer

Ansari²

2021

Journal of Sports Economics

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Because maximizing stadium attendance demand is of utmost importance, for both sports economists and sport management researchers, understanding the potential determinants of such demand better has become a priority in the last decades. Here, conducting a systematic scoping review, we map this previous research in terms of its characteristics, its nature, and its volume, thus offering a concise perspective on what has been previously explored, and, more importantly, what remains to be analyzed in the future. Intriguingly, we observe a lack of studies exploring data generated in both niche and women’s sports, as well as in most emerging markets. Further, the field has not yet established the use of disaggregated stadium attendance data, despite notable potential methodological pitfalls.

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Let's meet as usual: Do games played on non-frequent days differ? Evidence from top European soccer leagues

Cited by 48 publications

References 48 publications

Seasonal Home Advantage in English Professional Football; 1973-2018

Seasonal Home Advantage in English Professional Football; 1973-2018

Social pressure in the stadiums: Do agents change behavior without crowd support?

Stadium Attendance Demand Research: A Scoping Review

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