Oberhofer, Harald; Philippovich, Tassilo; Winner, Hannes - 2009
This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue …, focusing on the outcome of the game (i.e., win, draw or defeat) as a measure of the overall success of a football team we … that a team’s performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue …