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Home-Field Effect and Team Performance

Evidence From English Premiership Football

Fiona Carmichael

University of Salford

Dennis Thomas

University of Wales, Aberystwyth, det{at}aber.ac.uk

This article discusses the home-field effect in professional team sports and provides further evidence of home advantage in association football as played in the English Premier League. Utilizing play data it employs match-based production function to investigate the home-field effect on within-match performance by home and away teams.

Key Words: production functions • association football • team sports • home-field effect • within-match performance

Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 6, No. 3, 264-281 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1527002504266154
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