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How much advantage does a home pitch give a football team?

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Apologies. This is cribbed a bit from How big of an advantage does the home team actually have against the away team? . This is an issue that has been studied extensively by sport researchers and football researchers. read more

Pollard, R. (2008). Home Advantage in Football: A Current Review of an Unsolved Puzzle. The Open Sports Sciences Journal, 1(1), 12-14. doi:10.2174/1875399x00801010012; Pollard, R., & Gómez, M. A. (2009). Home advantage in football in South-West Europe: Long-term trends, regional variation, and team differences. read more

The home team is obviously familiar with the pitch, and comfortable playing on it, while the visiting team has to adjust, especially as a team may only visit a given away stadium once a season. The weather can often play a role in home advantage, though not often. read more

I looked at games where the road team and the home team have the same regular season record and see how often the home team wins- if it is more than 50% than the home field offered an "advantage." Since 2002, this has happened 12 times and the home team has won 9 of these games. read more

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