Home Advantage and its Influencing Factors in Fifa World Cup Asian Qualification

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ID7738476
AuthorsYang Liu (0000-0003-1220-7044, Shanxi University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume58
Issue1
Pages3-40
Publication date2024-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCross-Cultural Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1069-3971 • E-ISSN: 1552-3578
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10693971231176149
OpenAlexW4377861180
LanguageEN
References cited75

To investigate home advantage in the FIFA World Cup Asian qualification, 508 matches in the group stage of World Cup qualifying in a total of five Asian Zone World Cup qualifying tournaments from 2006–2022 were analysed. It was found that home advantage exists in the Asian Zone World Cup qualifiers as a whole (59.9%), with home advantage at the regional level ranging from high to low in South Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia, East Asia and Central Asia; Turkmenistan is the country with the highest home advantage, reflecting its exceptional nature. At the individual match level, three factors of Country, Subregion and Year were adjusted by putting them into a multilevel model as random effects, meanwhile, a multi-level model with home points as the dependent variable and the rest as predictor variables also fit well ( R 2 = .382). The results show that time zone and climate are significantly correlated with home points after controlling for team quality (both p

China · East Asia · Geography · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society

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