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Home teams win 63.6% of EuroLeague games: about 2 in every 3. In the NBA they win 55.5%, only a little more than half. NBA games are 48 minutes long and EuroLeague games 40, yet the EuroLeague home side wins by more points.
It was not always so far apart. Ten years ago NBA home teams won about 59% of the time. Then the number fell, and it has not come back.
A home team that wins half its games has no home advantage at all. Every point above 50% is the advantage of playing at home.
From 2010 to 2019 the EuroLeague's home teams won 3.8 points more often than the NBA's. Over the last five seasons the gap is 8.1 points.
With no home advantage, home teams would win 50 games in every 100. NBA home teams now win about 6 more than that. EuroLeague home teams win about 14 more.
The EuroLeague played 2020-21 almost entirely behind closed doors. Its home teams won 56.7% of games, the lowest in our 15 seasons. The next season the fans came back, and so did the advantage: 64.9%.
NBA home teams won 59.0% in 2018-19. In 2019-20, before the pandemic stopped play, it was 53.9%. In 2020-21, mostly without fans, 54.5%. The fall came first, the empty arenas second.
In the EuroLeague the crowd looks like most of the home advantage. In the NBA, something else was already changing.
| # | Team | Home | Away | Gap | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baskonia | 64.8% | 21.6% | 43.2 | 176 |
| 2 |  Maccabi Tel Aviv | 69.2% | 29.8% | 39.4 | 185 |
| 3 |  Bayern | 60.5% | 26.4% | 34.1 | 177 |
| 4 |  Fenerbahce | 74.2% | 42.1% | 32.1 | 188 |
| 5 |  Anadolu Efes | 64.4% | 34.0% | 30.4 | 184 |
| 6 |  Zalgiris Kaunas | 59.6% | 30.3% | 29.3 | 178 |
| 7 |  Real Madrid | 81.2% | 52.6% | 28.6 | 196 |
| 8 |  Panathinaikos | 65.3% | 37.4% | 27.9 | 186 |
| 9 |  Olympiacos | 80.2% | 54.1% | 26.1 | 199 |
| 10 |  Olimpia Milano | 62.1% | 36.0% | 26.1 | 176 |
| 11 |  Partizan | 61.1% | 35.6% | 25.5 | 145 |
| 12 |  Crvena zvezda | 59.3% | 34.1% | 25.2 | 174 |
| 13 |  Barcelona | 74.3% | 49.5% | 24.8 | 196 |
| 14 |  Valencia | 62.5% | 38.9% | 23.6 | 110 |
| 15 |  Monaco | 70.3% | 47.5% | 22.8 | 200 |
| 16 |  Virtus Bologna | 50.0% | 27.8% | 22.2 | 142 |
| 17 |  Alba Berlin | 33.8% | 17.6% | 16.2 | 136 |
| 18 |  Lyon-Villeurbanne | 35.6% | 20.0% | 15.6 | 172 |
The biggest NBA gap over the same seasons is Utah Jazz's: 47.9% at home, 28.6% away, 19.3 points. Baskonia's is 43.2.
The best teams win anywhere: Real Madrid win 52.6% away and Olympiacos 54.1%. Even Alba Berlin, who win only 33.8% at home, win about half as often on the road.
The same measure for the leagues we cover most closely. Each name opens that league's page.
EuroLeague, Greek Basket League, Lega A (Italy) are all above 62%. The NBA (55.5%) is third from bottom, just above the VTB League and Lithuania's LKL.
Each league's own page shows its home win share season by season, so you can watch the number move.
| Metric | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points / game | 155.6 | 157.3 | 163.3 | 168.0 | 157.2 | |
| Home win % | 69% | 62% | 63% | 60% | 62% | |
| Home margin | 4.9 | 3.2 | 5.8 | 2.4 | 4.7 | |
| Overtime % | 3% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 5% | |
| Blowouts (15+) | 41% | 43% | 34% | 35% | 38% | |
| Close games (5 or fewer) | 22% | 23% | 24% | 22% | 24% | |
| 1st half total | 77.6 | 78.7 | 81.3 | 84.3 | 78.0 | |
| 3-point attempt rate | 42% | 40% | 42% | 41% | 42% | |
| Pace | 73.4 | 73.6 | 73.6 | 74.7 | - |
| Metric | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points / game | 156.2 | 159.4 | 160.3 | 162.2 | 168.3 | |
| Home win % | 55% | 55% | 55% | 53% | 65% | |
| Home margin | 2.0 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 6.7 | |
| Overtime % | 6% | 4% | 2% | 5% | 4% | |
| Blowouts (15+) | 43% | 30% | 50% | 42% | 58% | |
| Close games (5 or fewer) | 27% | 27% | 20% | 24% | 15% | |
| 1st half total | 78.5 | 80.3 | 81.1 | 82.1 | 84.6 |
Our model learns home advantage from the past, league by league. Before each game it gave the home team a chance of winning. On average that was 58.6% for EuroLeague home teams and 53.8% for NBA home teams. So it already expects a bigger home advantage in Europe.
EuroLeague home teams won 50.0% of 24 games, and NBA home teams 51.1% of 90. That is two weeks of games. A run of 24 games can swing this much by chance.
We publish this every day, good weeks and bad. See how we score ourselves.
| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points / game | 161.5 | 163.2 | 167.8 | 172.0 | 173.9 | |
| Home win % | 62% | 65% | 62% | 64% | 54% | |
| Home margin | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.1 | |
| Overtime % | 5% | 5% | 4% | 4% | 5% | |
| Blowouts (15+) | 25% | 26% | 23% | 23% | 32% | |
| Close games (5 or fewer) | 35% | 34% | 30% | 30% | 31% | |
| 1st half total | 80.9 | 82.1 | 83.3 | 86.3 | 86.4 | |
| 3-point attempt rate | 41% | 41% | 41% | 42% | 41% | |
| Pace | 70.6 | 71.9 | 72.6 | 74.3 | - |
Want to see home court in tonight's games? Every game on PythiaBasketball has its own page with both teams' home and away form, their head-to-head record, and Pythia's forecast, made before the game and never changed after it. They are free to read. Today's games · EuroLeague · NBA.
How we count. Finished games only, regular season and playoffs, from the 2010-11 season to the 2025-26 season; the current season is shown on its own. A neutral-venue game counts as a home game for the team listed first, except the NBA's 2020 Orlando bubble, which is left out. The 2019-20 EuroLeague season was cancelled. Winning margins include overtime. Team tables need 40 or more home games. Causes are offered as questions, not facts. Everything here is free to use with a link.
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