away team

away team (plural away teams)

1. (sports) The visiting team; the team that is playing away from home.
   • 1960, Peter Lynn Kasson, An Analysis of College Basketball Officiating, page 25:

     Comparisons were made between the home and away team's number of fouls and violations.

   • 1997, Jens Bangsbo, Thomas Reilly, Mike Hughes, Science and Football III: Proceedings of the Third World Congress of Science:

     During this analysis, it became apparent that the home team seemed to be receiving proportionately greater generosity from the referee than the away team.

   • 2000, Paul Downward, Alistair Dawson, The Economics of Professional Team Sports:

     They also echo Jennett (1984), in using a variable measuring away team market size.

   • 2005, Susan B. Gerber, Using SPSS for Windows: Data Analysis and Graphics, page 79:

     In 56 games, the home team was favored and the away team won.

   • 2007, Sophia Jowett, David Lavallee, Social Psychology in Sport, page 108:

     He found no differences between home and away team performances when spectators cheered before the start of a play.

• visitor team
• visitors

• away game
• home team