How big is the home advantage?

Question

When two Premier League football teams meet, how big is the home advantage? Or, to put it another way, if Manchester United at home could play Manchester United away, how many goals, on average, would the home team and away team score?

Answer 1

The Times did a analysis of the premiership home advantage only sign of it ive found is this :- A 2006 study by The Times found that in the English Premiership, a home team can be expected to score 37.29% more goals than the away team, though this changes depending on the quality of the teams involved.
There was also a referees survey done too which was discussed on radio five live :-LONDON (Reuters) - Academics have proved what football managers have been griping about for years -- that Premiership referees are inconsistent and favour home teams. (link to article)

Answer 2

Being at home isn't an advantage. They talk about having their home fans backing their team whilst the away team has less fans. It's a load of old coswhollop. You do have set offans more enthusiastic than other teams, but It doesn't affect the team's performance. Although, I'm accepting that I'm wrong about the Champion's League final of 2 years ago. Liverpool out numbered AC Milan and that's what probably spurred them on to beat them from 3-0 down at half time.

Answer 3

One obivous factor would be the home support. The away team has say 10% of the support whereas at home they will have up to 90% - thus they can make a LOT more noise in support of their team.

Also if the game is played at an inconvenient time for supporters: compare say a quick trip to a local derby game on a sunny saturday in August to a long trip on a wet Tuesday evening in December, there may well be less attraction for you to go.

There are also possibly psychological factors for the players - familiarity with the stadium, the home stadium announcer pumping up the supporters before the kick-off. How big these are is difficult to say exactly.

Local weather and environmental conditions - an extreme example would be Bolivia playing their qualifying games at La Paz (3600M above sea level) and regularly beating higher-ranked teams there. They are used to playing at altitude, and teams who play at lower altitudes like Brazil are not.

Hope that helps

Answer 4

Home advantage equals Majority of fan support, great understanding of pitch, greater confidence and comfort because you're 'at home', greater expectations which lead to improved performance.
You cant attach goals to that really because that all depends on how well a team is performing away and what kind of form the home and away teams are in

Answer 5

It depends on the team. Teams like Arsneal and Liverpool have outstanding home records and above average away records whereas teams liek manu are balanced. Arsneal used to have excellent hoem and away records but something happened.

It also depends on eh amount of fans and typr of fans. I mean if youre in a stadium with people who'd slit your throath if you beat them, then well... If you only got 1000 fans compared to 50 000 then.

Answer 6

Home advantage is definately a big, well ... advantage. Many teams thrive at home, but struggle in away matches.

But if United (home) v United (away). I say the home side wins 2-1.

Answer 7

The away team would lose because the home team would probably be awarded a penalty, especially if Mike Riley was the ref.

Answer 8

it depends on the ground and the stadium atmosphere
like when mexico plays the usa in the us they look like the home team but loose
when they play in the azteca they win becuase its a sell out and the altitude and all of the smog

Answer 9

you only have home advantage if the fans get behind the team

Answer 10

its pretty big
because you have the majority of the fans is on your side
and you are used to the pitch
have a nice day