Saturday in the stadium: on higher attendance on Saturdays in Norwegian Eliteserien soccer league

Format and schedule proposals for a FIFA World Cup with 12 four-team groups

“…This paper belongs to a large literature on tournament design of sports competitions that can be found in many academic fields such as economics, operational research, computer and sport sciences. Previous studies have investigated various issues related to tournament design such as collusion (Duggan & Levitt, 2002;Elaad et al, 2018;Guyon, 2018), incentives to lose (Csato, 2019;Csato, 2020a;Csato, 2020b;Csato, 2022;Dagaev & Sonin, 2018;Guyon, 2022;Haugen & Krumer, 2021;Vong, 2017), scheduling (Alarcón et al, 2017;Durán et al, 2017;Goller & Krumer, 2020;Ermakov & Krumer, 2022;Krumer, 2020;Krumer et al, 2017a;Krumer & Lechner, 2017;Scoppa, 2015;Van Bulck et al, 2019), optimal seeding (Cea et al, 2020;Guyon, 2015;Groh et al, 2012;Krumer et al, 2017b;Nissim & Sela, 2020;Sziklai et al, 2022), tie-breaking rules (Berker, 2014), number of prizes (Krumer et al, 2020), number of teams in the tournament (Di Mattia & Krumer, 2023), etc. 6 This paper also relates to a growing literature on the 2026 FWC.…”

The Effect of COVID-19 on Home Advantage in Women’s Soccer: Evidence From Swedish Damallsvenskan

“…For example, in 2019 there were fewer than 900 fans per game in the Swedish Damallsvenskan women’s soccer league, which is one of the top European women’s soccer leagues in Europe. By way of comparison, a recent study by Ermakov and Krumer (2022) reported an average of approximately 7000 fans per game in Norwegian men’s soccer, which is not among the most highly attended leagues in Europe. This indicates that the home support is likely to be lower in women’s league, which could reduce potential referees’ bias in favor of the home teams compared to men’s soccer.…”