Home Advantage Revisited: Did COVID Level the Playing Fields?

Pawel Strawinski and Krawczyk Michał
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Krawczyk Michał: University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Długa 44/50, 00-241 Warsaw, Poland

Central European Economic Journal, 2022, vol. 9, issue 56, 56-67

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic swept fans out of the stadiums, but matches continued to be played in most major football leagues. We make use of this natural experiment to investigate if home field advantage disappears when the home team is not supported by the fans. Focusing on four top European football leagues, we find such an effect in the Bundesliga only. We propose that this singularity may be related to the special role that the fan associations play in German football.

Keywords: football; home-field advantage; COVID-19; supporters; fans (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 L83 M50 Z2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.2478/ceej-2022-0004

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