Multi-hosting UEFA European Football Championship: fair enough between participating teams?

Franck Brocherie (1) , Quentin de Larochelambert (2, 3, 4) , Grégoire Millet (5)

1 SEP (EA7370) - French Institute of Sport (INSEP), Laboratory Sport, Expertise and Performance (EA7370)
2 IRMES - URP_7329 - Institut de recherche biomédicale et d’épidémiologie du sport
3 IMB - Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne [Dijon]
4 FFS - Fédération Française de Ski
5 ISSUL - Institute of Sport Sciences of University of Lausanne

Purpose: To describe the effects of travel distance and bio-meteorological conditions on the 2020 multi-hosting UEFA European Championship’s match outcomes and progress in competition.
Methods: Teams’ basecamps, distance from match venues, match outcomes (defeat, draw and win), bio-meteorological data (ambient air temperature, relative humidity and wet bulb globe temperature) and corresponding FIFA world ranking were extracted from the UEFA and FIFA websites; and analyzed through Chi-squared test (impact of basecamp location on match outcomes), Kruskal–Wallis test (distribution of travel distances carried out), ordinal regressions (with match outcomes and competition phases as variables of interest and FIFA ranking and venue distance as explanatory variables) and principal component analysis (with the bio-meteorological conditions and match outcomes for each match).

Mots clés: Soccer; Home advantage; Match location; Match outcome; Travel; Heat

Domaines: Physiologie [q-bio.TO]

Franck Brocherie, Quentin de Larochelambert, Grégoire Millet. Multi-hosting UEFA European Football Championship: fair enough between participating teams?. Science and Medicine in Football, 2022, ⟨10.1080/24733938.2022.2072944⟩. ⟨hal-03817797⟩