Analysis of home advantage in different world football leagues

  • Marlon Salomão Lopes do Nacimento Universidade Federal de Viçosa-UFV, Viçosa-MG, Brasil.
  • Davi Correia da Silva Núcleo de Pesquisa e Estudos em Futebol-NUPEF, Universidade Federal de Viçosa-UFV, Viçosa-MG, Brasil; Centro Universitário Governador Ozanam Coelho-UNIFAGOC, Ubá-MG, Brasil.
Keywords: Brazilian championship, Soccer, Advantage

Abstract

The aim of this study was to compare the advantage of playing at home between the Brazilian Championship, the Premier League, and the Chinese Super League. The sample consisted of 6,000 matches, with 2,280 from the Brazilian Championship, 2,280 from the Premier League and 1,440 from the Chinese Super League. The conditions of win draw and defeat of the championships in the years 2012 to 2016 were analyzed. All matches adopted criteria of three points for win, one for draw and no point for defeat. The match tables were consulted on the websites www.resultados.com, www.cbf.com.br and www.premierleague.com. It is considered that there is an advantage at home when the use of the team is greater than 50%. In the statistical analysis, the Anova One Way test was used with Tukey's post-hoc application. The value of p <0.05 was considered for significance level. The statistical procedures were performed using SPSS software, version 20.0. The results showed that in the Brazilian Championship and in the Premier League, the clubs had more advantage in playing at home in relation to the Chinese Super League (p<0.001). Therefore, it was noted that the analysis about the Brazilian Championship showed that the teams that play at home in series A have a significant advantage in the amount of points won, as well as in the Premier League the numbers show that this advantage too, in the Chinese Super League too there was a significant difference in home advantage between the home teams, however, there was one factor that was taken into account, the number of games in the Chinese Super League was lower compared to the other leagues in the study. For future studies, the relationship between the number of fans of the home team and the final result of the match could be investigated.

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Published
2021-05-09
How to Cite
Nacimento, M. S. L. do, & Silva, D. C. da. (2021). Analysis of home advantage in different world football leagues. RBFF - Brazilian Journal of Futsal and Football, 12(49), 371-375. Retrieved from https://www.rbff.com.br/index.php/rbff/article/view/958
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Vol. 12 No. 49 (2020)
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Scientific Articles - Original

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