Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2020-05-17
Number: 20-025/V
Author-Name: Thomas Peeters
Author-Workplace-Name: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Author-Name: Jan C. van Ours
Author-Workplace-Name: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Title: Seasonal Home Advantage in English Professional Football; 1973-2018
Abstract: We analyze 45 years of data from English professional football focusing on the determinants of home advantage. We conclude that seasonal home advantage is substantial and positively related to within-team variation in attendance. Furthermore, despite big cross-league differences in attendance, the average home advantage is about the same across the English leagues. The average home advantage over the period of analysis was 0.63 points and 0.45 goals difference. Finally, we find that over time there is a substantial decline in the home advantage that materializes equally across the leagues.
Classification-JEL: L83, Z21
Keywords: Professional football, home advantage, managers
File-URL: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/20025.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 1313280 bytes
Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20200025