home-and-away
English
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- (British English, sports) Of a series of two matches: having one game played at each competitor's home ground.
- Synonym: (North America) home-and-home
- 2010 February 10, David Conn, “Premier League plans play-off for last Champions League place”, in The Guardian:
- the practicalities of how a play-off system could work: whether it should take the form of a home-and-away knockout system, similar to that in the Football League, or incorporate seeding
- 2013 February 21, Peter Whyke, The Guardian "'There are still people coming to our house for autographs 50 years on'"
- Ahead of it we thought, as with any cup tie, that we had a 50-50 chance especially being at home in the first leg as finals then were played on a home and away basis.