Home field effect and team performance: Evidence from English Premiership football

Fiona Carmichael; Dennis Thomas

doi:10.1177/1527002504266154

Home field effect and team performance: Evidence from English Premiership football

Fiona Carmichael, Dennis Thomas

Aberystwyth Business School

Birmingham Business School

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Abstract

This article discusses the home-field effect in professional team sports and provides further evidence of home advantage in association football as played in the English Premier League. Utilizing play data it employs match-based production function to investigate the home-field effect on within-match performance by home and away teams.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	264-281
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of Sports Economics
Volume	6
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1527002504266154
Publication status	Published - Aug 2005

Keywords

production functions
association football
team sports
home-field effect
within-match performance

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