Home Advantage in the Czech Football League Before, During and After the Covid-19 Pandemic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F46747885%3A24310%2F24%3A00012470" target="_blank" >RIV/46747885:24310/24:00012470 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.16926/sit.2024.03.05" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.16926/sit.2024.03.05</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.16926/sit.2024.03.05" target="_blank" >10.16926/sit.2024.03.05</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Home Advantage in the Czech Football League Before, During and After the Covid-19 Pandemic

Original language description

The COVID-19 pandemic disease had a huge impact on professional football and led to the introduction of significant spectatorrestrictions. The most significant restriction was the banning of spectators from entering the stadium. This paper evaluates home advantage and the extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on home advantage in men’s professional football in the Czech top football league. The research findings can be useful in various decision-making areas, such as team game strategies or betting strategies. The research compares the results of matches played with spectators with the results of matches played without spectators or with spectator restrictions. The method chosen to quantify home advantage considers points and goals scored and uses a two-sample Mann-Whitney test. The COVID-19 pandemic had no statistically significant effect on homeadvantage. Home advantage persisted even without spectators, although to a lesser extent. The research concluded that home advantage may be reduced but not lost in the absence of spectators. However, more detailed analyses are needed in future studies to identify the main determinants of this phenomenon across football leagues and countries.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50901 - Other social sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sport and Tourism Central European Journal

ISSN

2657-4322

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85206940982