The Effect of the First Goal on the Score of the Match and Home Advantage in Football: Analysis of Turkish Super League and 1st League in Pre-Pandemic and Pandemic Period by Serdar Yıldırım, Gökhan Hadi, Kemal Göral

“…In the last two seasons that were examined, as the pre-pandemic period, the home advantage was found to be 53.57% in a total of 486 matches in the Super League and TFF 1st League in the 2019-2020 season, and the home advantage value was 52.42% in the Super league, and 54.37% in the TFF1 League. In the 2020-2021 season, which has been continued during the pandemic process, the percentage of total home advantage in 420 matches in the Super League and 306 matches in the TFF 1st League was found to be 50.64%, and the percentage of home advantage values decreased to 50.79% in the Super League and 50.43% TFF 1st Soccer League. …”
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