An analysis of home advantage in the top two Spanish professional football leagues

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 789-797

  Sánchez, Pedro A ^a   García Calvo, Tomás ^a   Leo, Francisco M ^a   Pollard, Richard ^b   Gómez, Miguel A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPAIN; SPORT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENGLAND; HUMANS; SOCCER; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL FACILITATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPAIN;

EID: 70350469052     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 00315125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.108.3.789-797     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Clarke, S. R., & Norman, J. M. (1995) Home ground advantage of individual clubs in English soccer. The Statistician, 44, 509-521.
2. Courneya, K. S., & Carron, A. V. (1992) The home advantage in sport competitions: a literature review. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 14, 13-27.
3. Dosseville, F. E. M. (2007) Influence of ball type on home advantage in French professional soccer. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 104, 347-351.
4. Dowie, J. (1982) Why Spain should win the World Cup. New Scientist, 94, 693-695.
5. Jacklin, P. B. (2005) Temporal changes in home advantage in English football since the Second World War: what explains improved away performance? Journal of Sports Sciences, 23, 669-679.
6. Morris, D. (1981) The soccer tribe. London: Cape.
7. Nevill, A. M., & Holder, R. L. (1999) Home advantage in sport: an overview of studies on the advantage of playing at home. Sport Medicine, 28, 221-236.
8. Nevill, A. M., Newell, S. M, & Gale, S. (1996) Factors associated with home advantage in English and Scottish soccer matches. Journal of Sports Sciences, 14, 181-186.
9. Pollard, R. (1986) Home advantage in soccer: a retrospective analysis. Journal of Sport Sciences, 4, 237-248.
10. Pollard, R. (2006a) Home advantage in soccer: variations in its magnitude and a literature review of the associated factors associated with its existence. Journal of Sport Behavior, 29, 169-189.
11. Pollard, R. (2006b) Worldwide regional variations in home advantage in association football. Journal of Sports Sciences, 24, 231-240.
12. Pollard, R. (2008) Home advantage in football: a current review for an unsolved puzzle. The Open Sports Sciences Journal, 1, 12-14.
13. Pollard, R., & Pollard, G. (2005) Long-term trends in home advantage in professional team sports in North America and England (1876-2003). Journal of Sports Sciences, 23, 337-350.
14. Schlenker, B. R., Phillips, S. T., Boniecki, K. A., & Schlenker, D. R. (1995) Championship pressures: choking or triumphing in one's own territory? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 632-643.
15. Schwartz, B., & Barsky, S. F. (1977) The home advantage. Social Forces, 55, 641-661.
16. Seckin, A., & Pollard, R. (2008) Home advantage in Turkish professional soccer. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 107, 51-54.
17. Thomas, S., Reeves, C., & Davies, S. (2004) An analysis of home advantage in the English Football Premiership. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 99, 1212-1216.
18. Tsonis, A. A., & Tsonis, P. A. (2001) Information transfer and home advantage. Mathematics Today, 37, 24-25.