Global differences in home advantage by country, sport and sex

The purpose of this study was to use a multivariate approach to investigate variations in home advantage between different team sports and between different countries both for men’s and women’s competition. The data were based on the domestic premier leagues of 15 sports in 65 countries worldwide, over a 5-year period from 2011 to 2015 with a total of 1952 league tables qualifying for inclusion. After controlling for differences in competitive...