Predicting Football Outcomes by Using Poisson Model: Applied to Spanish Primera División

During the past decades, sport, in general, has become one of most powerful competitions and popular world. As well as, everyone is waiting for winner, who will be champion end different tournaments. Among these sports, football's popularity more than all other sports. Football matches results predicting, as various competitions, been seriously studied recent years. Moreover, it an interesting field many researchers. In this work, Poisson model presented to predict draw, loser from football matches. The method applied Spanish Primera División (First Division) 2016-2017; data downloaded football-data.co.uk website, which used find prediction accuracy.