Oberhofer, Harald; Philippovich, Tassilo; Winner, Hannes - 2008
that a team's performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue … explaining a guest team's propensity to concede goals, but not so for scoring goals. Focusing on the difference between scored … and conceded goals ('goal difference') as a measure of the overall success of a football team, we observe a significant …