Home Advantage in Sport by Gómez-Ruano, Miguel; Pollard, Richard; Lago-Pe?as, Carlos;

Causes and the Effect on Performance

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Product details:

Edition number 1
Publisher Routledge
Date of Publication 28 October 2021

ISBN 9780367533298
Binding Hardback
No. of pages354 pages
Size 234x156 mm
Weight 612 g
Language English
Illustrations 22 Illustrations, black & white; 22 Line drawings, black & white; 52 Tables, black & white

Short description:

This is the first book exploring the concept of home advantage (HA), the beneficial effect from performing at home. Section 1 focuses on the theory of HA, Section 2 analyses the effects of HA related to male and female athletes, in relation to tactics, fans, referees, and the home disadvantage; and Section 3 studys the HA in specific sports.

Long description:

This is the first book exploring the concept of home advantage (HA), the well-known beneficial effect that players and teams derive from performing at home in all sports throughout the world. Despite the fact that the existence of HA dates back to the origins of organized sport in the late 19th century, its root causes and how they operate and interact with each other are still unclear and remain the topic of intense research involving many disciplines, all with the potential objective of improving team and individual performance.

This book covers a broad review of HA divided into three different sections: (i) Section 1 focuses on the theory of HA in sport (the concept of this phenomenon, its quantification, and factors supposedly associated with the HA are explored; (ii) Section 2 analyses the effects of HA in sports related to both male and female athletes, in relation to tactics and strategies, fans, referees, travel, situational variables and the home disadvantage; and (iii) Section 3 studies the HA as it applies to specific sports worldwide such as outdoor sports (football, rugby, cricket, and Australian Football), indoor sports (basketball, futsal, handball, water polo and volleyball), US professional sports, individual sports, racket sports, combat sports, minor sports, disabled sports and the Olympic Games.

This book has been written in cooperation with top leading experts in this field worldwide. The book offers a better understanding of the HA effect for MSc and PhD students, athletes, coaches, performance analysts, sport psychologists, sociologists, sport scientists and sport journalists.