Alternatives
In knockout competitions, alternatives to two-legged ties include:
- single-leg ties:
- either where one team has home advantage, as in all rounds of the FA Cup except the semi-finals onwards. Two-legged ties are seen as fairer, since they give neither team home advantage; conversely, in the National Football League, home advantage is a reward for being the better seed (although the better seeds may not have had a better season).
- or played at a neutral venue, as in the final match of many tournaments, including the UEFA Champions League Final and the FA Cup Semi-finals and Final. Neutral venues may be inconvenient for a team's fans to travel to.
- best-of-N match series, where the team winning more matches wins the series. These are common in major Canadian and American sports leagues. If a game cannot be drawn and there is an odd number of games in the series, the series cannot be drawn either.
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