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Playing sports at a home ground provides a distinct competitive advantage

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SUPPORTED

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Extensive empirical research across various sports and leagues consistently demonstrates that teams playing at their home ground enjoy a measurable and distinct competitive advantage.

Evidence for · 8

Home Advantage and Sports Performance: Evidence, Causes and Psychological Implications

2013 · cited by 45

Reviews and documents the well-established existence of home advantage across competitive sports.

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Comparison of Home Advantage in College and Professional Team Sports in the United States.

2015 · cited by 27

Compares American college and professional sports to demonstrate a statistically significant home winning percentage across all examined sports.

Covid-19 Pandemic as a Natural Experiment: The Case of Home Advantage in Sports

2025 · cited by 2

Uses pandemic restrictions as a natural experiment to study the mechanisms driving home advantage, confirming performance differences.

Causal Effects of Crowd Support on Home Advantage: Evidence from Professional Handball

2025 · cited by 1

Demonstrates a statistical home advantage in professional handball and notes how spectator presence affects outcomes.

Bayesian analysis of home advantage in North American professional sports before and during COVID-19.

2021 · cited by 0

Analyzes professional sports before and during COVID-19, confirming home advantage patterns across major leagues.

[Psychological aspects of home advantage].

2006 · cited by 0

Examines the biological, psychological, and environmental factors contributing to home teams winning over 50% of games.

Home advantage in sport: an overview of studies on the advantage of playing at home.

1999 · cited by 0

Identifies key factors like crowd influence and travel that consistently give home teams an edge in sports competitions.

Home advantage in Australian soccer.

2014 · cited by 0

Quantifies home advantage in Australian soccer and confirms that home teams gain a significantly higher percentage of competition points.

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