A team can be 'home' or 'away' – but what is this status called?
At first I thought 'location' or 'venue' but this isn't right – the location is singular and the basis of what determines the 'home' or 'away' status.
ex:
- Team: Main Street Bruisers
- Mascot: Gorilla
- Score: 4
- status: Away
edit:
Thanks everyone for the input. It's quite a tricky one. The idea of 'hosting' is nice – but I'm not looking for a boolean kind of value – 'hosting? = yes' or 'hosting? = no' – more for a term that signifies the status of the field of play for a given team.
Best Answer
Despite you ruling it out, venue seems to be most commonly used even when there is no particular venue associated with it.
If you look at the Home Advantage page on Wikipedia, which falls into the Terminology Used in Multiple Sports category, it repeatedly uses "venue" when talking about the location of a sports game. Neutral Venue also redirects to this page.