Investigating the inter-country variations in game interruptions across the Big-5 European football leagues

Yangqing Zhao and Hui Zhang

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2021, vol. 21, issue 1, 180-196

Abstract: This paper reports an empirical investigation of game interruptions in competitions based on data from the European Big-5 leagues. The results showed that 1) visiting teams and teams facing strong opponents tended to have longer game interruptions; 2) the durations of throw-ins and stoppages due to out-of-bounds balls were significantly longer in the English Premier League than in the other four leagues (p

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2020.1865688

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