Home Advantage in the Brazilian Elite Football: Verifying managers' capacity to outperform their disadvantage
Carlos Denner dos Santos, Jessica Alves

TL;DR
This study investigates how managerial tactics can counteract home advantage in Brazilian elite football, showing that skilled managers can neutralize or reverse HA effects regardless of fatigue or crowd presence.
Contribution
It introduces a theoretical model highlighting the manager's role in overcoming home advantage, supported by empirical analysis of a decade of Brazilian football data.
Findings
Managers can reverse home advantage against similar-quality teams.
Home advantage diminishes with increasing team quality gap.
Managerial influence can nullify HA despite fatigue and crowd effects.
Abstract
Home advantage (HA) in football, soccer is well documented in the literature; however, the explanation for such phenomenon is yet to be completed, as this paper demonstrates that it is possible to overcome such disadvantage through managerial planning and intervention (tactics), an effect so far absent in the literature. To accomplish that, this study develops an integrative theoretical model of team performance to explain HA based on prior literature, pushing its limits to unfold the manager role in such a persistent pattern of performance in soccer. Data on one decade of the national tournament of Brazil was obtained from public sources, including information about matches and coaches of all 12 teams who played these competitions. Our conceptual modeling allows an empirical analysis of HA and performance that covers the effects of tactics, presence of supporters in matches and team…
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TopicsSports Analytics and Performance
