RESEARCH ARTICLE
Home Advantage in Football: A Current Review of an Unsolved Puzzle
Richard Pollard *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 1
First Page: 12
Last Page: 14
Publisher ID: TOSSJ-1-12
DOI: 10.2174/1875399X00801010012
Article History:
Received Date: 27/03/2008Revision Received Date: 24/04/2008
Acceptance Date: 29/04/2008
Electronic publication date: 5/6/2008
Collection year: 2008

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Abstract
The existence of home advantage in football is a well known and well documented fact. However the precise causes and the way in which they affect performance are still not clear. A comprehensive review is made of published research under the main hypothesized explanations for home advantage in football which are: crowd effects, travel effects, familiarity, referee bias, territoriality, specific tactics, rule factors and psychological factors. Their interactions, and other factors that need to be taken into account when investigating home advantage, are considered.