Visitors Out! The Absence of Away Team Supporters as a Source of Home Advantage in Football

Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Delbianco () and Fernando Tohmé
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Federico Fioravanti: University of Amsterdam/UNS-CONICET

No 299, Working Papers from Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE)

Abstract: We seek to gain more insight into the effect of the crowds on the Home Advantage by analyzing the particular case of Argentinean football (also known as soccer), where for more than ten years, the visiting team fans were not allowed to attend the games. Additionally, during the COVID-19 lockdown, a significant number of games were played without both away and home team fans. The analysis of more than 20 years of matches of the Argentinean tournament indicates that the absence of the away team crowds was beneficial for the Top 5 teams during the first two years after their attendance was forbidden. An additional intriguing finding is that the lack of both crowds affects significantly all the teams, to the point of turning the home advantage into home ‘disadvantage’ for most of the teams.

Keywords: Home Advantage; Football; COVID-19; Violence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2024-01
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