In most team sports, there is the concept of home and away teams. A lot of important games such as playoffs or elimination matches in many sports have special rules for deciding what match is played where. In many team sports in North America, playoffs are often held at each team’s site but the final home game is often awarded to the team with the most success over the regular season.

For games at home, the team has the advantage of choosing their first choice in uniforms or athletics jerseys rather than their alternate colors. This is because a team’s identity is often partly, or mostly, based on its home colors. For example, in Major League Baseball, a team’s home uniform by tradition has the team name on it while its away uniform has the name of its home city, state or region.