Home Advantage in Turkish Professional Soccer

Objective: To measure the impact of restrictions due to COVID on the proportion of matches won at home, away and draw in professional soccer and rugby union.Materials and Methods: Two samples of professional soccer and rugby union matches were collected from 2012–13 to 2020–21 seasons. For soccer, data involved first and second division matches of the England, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Scotland, Greece, Portugal, and Turkey championships. For rugby union, championships concerned are Premiership Rugby, Celtic League, Top 14, and Pro D2. The proportions of home, away wins and draw were calculated and compared. A chi-square test of independence between years and types of result was realized to identify an overall inhomogeneity.Results: The proportion of away matches won between the 2012–13 and 2020–21 seasons increased significantly from 28.5 ± 1.2% to 32.5 ± 1.5% in soccer and from 38.0 ± 3.6% to 42.8 ± 5.0% in rugby union. In Premiership Rugby championship, the victory percentage at home dropped from 55.8 ± 3.1% when tifosi were present to 45.8 ± 12.8% when they were not.Conclusion: The home advantage was drastically reduced in empty stadiums for several European soccer and rugby union professional championships. It vanished in the Premiership Rugby and Celtic League during the 2020–21 season.

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Home advantage in professional soccer: Analysis of Turkey 1. leagueProfesyonel futbolda ev sahibi olma avantaji: Türkiye 1. liginin analizi

Journal of Human Sciences ◽

10.14687/jhs.v14i4.4864 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 3292 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Oğuz Gürkan ◽

Kemal Göral ◽

Özcan Saygın

Keyword(s):

Study Data ◽

English Abstract ◽

Home Team ◽

Technical Parameters ◽

Professional Soccer ◽

Home Advantage ◽

The Mean

In the present study, it was aimed to analyze the home team advantage in 1st Football League of Turkey. Obtained by examining the scores of matches played in 10 seasons (2005/2006-2014/2015), the study data were analyzed in terms of certain technical parameters such as number of games won as home team and guest team, home team advantage by the seasons and teams. The data obtained were entered to SPSS 16.0 software, and the frequency and percentage values were calculated and then interpreted. In totally 3062 matches played during 10 seasons, the number of matches won by home teams was 1319 (43.07%), whereas the number of games lost by home teams was found to be 886 (28.93%). During 10 seasons of 1st Football League of Turkey, the home team advantage was calculated to be 61.10%, whereas the mean home team advantage values of teams listed in 1st Football League of Turkey within this period were calculated to vary between 48.95% and 85.71%. Mean home team advantage of teams, which completed the seasons as the champion, was calculated to be 56.40%, whereas the same rate was found to be 61.23% for the teams that were dropped from the league. In conclusion, in terms of the home team advantage, the results obtained for 1st Football League of Turkey were in harmony with the literature; thus, it can be stated that the points won in away matches are an important criteria for having a successful season by winning more points. Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetBu çalışma, Türkiye Futbol 1. Liginde, ev sahibi olma avantajının incelenerek analiz edilmesi amacıyla yapılmıştır. On sezonluk zaman diliminde (2005/2006-2014/2015) oynanan müsabakaların sonuçları değerlendirilerek elde edilmiş olan araştırma verileri, takımların ev sahibi ve deplasman takımı olarak maç kazanma sayıları, sezonlara ve takımlara göre ev sahibi olma avantajları gibi teknik parametrelerin analizi yapılarak incelenmiştir. Elde edilen veriler SPSS 16.0 programında kaydedilmiş, frekans ve yüzde değerleri hesaplanarak yorumlanmıştır. İncelenen on sezonda oynanan toplam 3062 maçta, ev sahibi takımların galibiyet sayıları 1319 (%43.07) olurken, mağlubiyetle sonuçlanan maç sayısı 886 (%28.93) olarak belirlenmiştir. Türkiye Futbol 1. Liginin incelenen 10 sezonunda ev sahibi olma avantajı ortalaması %61.10 olarak belirlenirken, Türkiye Futbol 1. Liginde bu zaman aralığında mücadele eden takımların ev sahibi olma avantajı ortalamalarının %48.95 ile %85.71 aralığında değiştiği tespit edilmiştir. Bir sezonu şampiyon olarak tamamlayan takımların ev sahibi olma avantajı ortalamaları %56.40 olarak bulunurken, küme düşen takımlarda ise bu oranın %61.23 olduğu belirlenmiştir. Sonuç olarak, ev sahibi olma avantajı açısından Türkiye Futbol 1. Liginde de literatüre benzer sonuçlara ulaşılmasından hareketle, futbolda daha fazla puan sahibi olarak başarılı bir sezon performansı ortaya koyabilmek için deplasmanda kazanılan puanların da hedefe ulaşmada çok önemli bir kriter olduğunu söylenebilir.

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