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April 29, 2025
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Exploring the home advantage and home winning effect in handball: Differences between sexes and team level

Publicated to: International Journal Of Sports Science & Coaching. 20 (4): 1617-1625 - 2025-04-15 20(4), DOI: 10.1177/17479541251333936

Authors:

Nieto, Moises Marquina; Garcia-Sanchez, Carlos; Nieto-Acevedo, Raul; de la Rubia, Alfonso
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Univ Alfonso X El Sabio, Fac Sports Sci, Villanueva De La Canada, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Fac Phys Act & Sport Sci, Deporte & Entrenamiento Res Grp, Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

The aim of the study was to analyse and compare the extent of home advantage (HA) and home winning percentage (HW) by sex and team classification in Spanish First Division handball leagues. Results data were collected from the first divisions of the Spanish men's and women's handball leagues for 10 seasons (2013-2024), excluding the season by COVID19. For each team in each season, the variables of HA (%) determined as (total home points / total points) * 100 and HW (%) calculated as (total home wins / total home games) * 100 were found. In addition, teams were divided into high (HLT), medium (MLT) and low (LLT) level teams based on the percentage of games won in each season using cluster analysis. Males had higher HA values than females (p < 0.05), however, there was no difference in HW (p > 0.05). In addition, males had higher HA values than females separately in MLT and LLT (p < 0.05) and higher HW values only in the LLT (p < 0.001). LLT had higher HA than MLT and HLT (p < 0.001), while HLT had higher HW than MLT and LLT (p < 0.001). Thus there are differences in HA and HW by sex and team level. Male teams experienced greater HA and HW effects, suggesting that female teams have a more even distribution of wins in home and away games. In addition, LLT seem to rely more on home games to achieve wins, while HLT seem to be more successful both at home and away.
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Keywords

Audience supportBasketball teamsElite handballFootballGame locationLong-term trendsPerformancePerformance analysiPlayers exclusionsQualitSoccerSport competitions

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal International Journal Of Sports Science & Coaching due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category .

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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-21:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 5.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 5 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 11.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 1 (Altmetric).
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Canada.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (MARQUINA NIETO, MOISES) and Last Author (GONZALO DE LA RUBIA, ALFONSO).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been GARCIA SANCHEZ, CARLOS.

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Awards linked to the item

The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Factores que determinan el rendimiento deportivo en la alta competicion, (grant number 10012023-DPM-m-Pinar del Rio).
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