Home advantage by league: where playing at home still counts

Home advantage by league, 2025/26

Where home advantage is strongest and weakest

La Liga topped the big five. Home teams won 48.9% of its games and away teams only 26.6%. One of its biggest home wins was Barcelona 6-0 Valencia on 14 September 2025.

Serie A had the smallest edge, clearly below La Liga’s. Italian home teams won 38.9% and away teams 35.0%. Ligue 1 (16.7), the Premier League (12.6) and the Bundesliga (12.1) sit in between. On one season they are too close to separate from each other.

Iceland topped the list. In Iceland’s Besta deild, home teams won 53.8% of games in 2025, more than twice the away sides’ 24.2%. One of its biggest home wins was Valur Reykjavík 6-1 KR Reykjavík on 23 June 2025. On 132 games it is too close to separate from 23 other leagues, La Liga among them.

Three leagues had no home edge. In Azerbaijan’s Premyer Liqa and Wales’ Cymru Premier, away teams won slightly more often (Wales lowest, at −0.8 points). In the Faroe Islands’ Betri deildin, home and away wins were exactly level. Only 22 of the 49 leagues show a home edge clearly above zero on one season alone.

Do home teams score more?

Yes. Across all 49 leagues, home teams scored 1.52 goals a game and away teams 1.25. In the big five the gap was 1.54 against 1.23. About one game in four was a draw; which leagues draw most gets its own page in this series.

What about Brazil, MLS and Saudi Arabia?

Outside Europe we track five big leagues. Their seasons run on different calendars, so they get their own table rather than a place in the ranking. Brazil’s Série A had the largest home edge we measured: home teams won 50.3% of its games.

How we counted

Which leagues. The top division of every UEFA country we track, one per country: 49 of UEFA’s 55 member associations. Not shown, because our database does not hold enough of its last season: Moldova Super Liga. Not tracked: Andorra, Gibraltar, Malta and San Marino; Liechtenstein has no league of its own. Leagues that play spring to autumn, like the Nordic and Baltic leagues, count their 2025 season.

Which games. Regular season only: play-offs, finals and the championship and relegation groups some leagues split into are left out. Awarded results are out because they were not played. A result is the score after 90 minutes and stoppage time. Home means the team listed as home; a game moved to a neutral ground still counts under its listed home side.

Checked twice. Every score comes from our match database and must match a second, independent source for the same game. No game was held out: the two agreed on every score. A league is shown only if we hold 95% of its games and it has at least 100. One pairing appears more often than the schedule allows in both sources (Dinamo Minsk v FC Slutsk, 3 games instead of 2). It is counted; one game in a season of over 200 moves that league’s number by under one point.

Is a gap real? One season is a sample, so every league’s number has a range: how far it could move on one season’s luck alone. We call one league clearly ahead of another only when the gap is bigger than that. Among the big five we also correct for making ten comparisons at once. Otherwise we say too close to separate. Every number on this page comes from one script run on our database.

Full table: home advantage in every league

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