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  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,703 Views
15 Pages

5 November 2020

Qualifying for European competitions allows football clubs to have access to the two most important football competitions played in Europe, UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. Thereby, participation in these important competitions has both...

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
35,520 Views
20 Pages

Europe’s elite football clubs are a small group of about 30 clubs mostly originating from the Big Five leagues in England, Italy, Spain, Germany, and France. These clubs top Deloitte’s Football Money League ranking Europe’s top football clubs by reve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,603 Views
18 Pages

28 October 2025

Sport has long served as a powerful vehicle for promoting social inclusion, particularly among marginalized youth. Football, due to its global appeal and participatory nature, is uniquely positioned to bridge social divides while fostering technical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,972 Views
14 Pages

22 September 2019

In recent years, English professional football has been rocked by allegations of historical sexual abuse and safeguarding concerns around young players. This paper examines the potential contribution that sports chaplains can make to the specific wel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,154 Views
17 Pages

A Comprehensive Data Pipeline for Comparing the Effects of Momentum on Sports Leagues

  • Jordan Truman Paul Noel,
  • Vinicius Prado da Fonseca and
  • Amilcar Soares

1 February 2024

Momentum has been a consistently studied aspect of sports science for decades. Among the established literature, there has, at times, been a discrepancy between conclusions. However, if momentum is indeed an actual phenomenon, it would affect all asp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,799 Views
12 Pages

The Limited Impact of Running Performance on Football Success in the Turkish Super League

  • Spyridon Plakias,
  • Sotiris Tasoulis,
  • Angelos E. Kyranoudis,
  • Christos Kokkotis and
  • Serafeim Moustakidis

10 January 2025

Given that performance in football depends on tactical, technical, physical, and mental skills, the purpose of this study was to investigate whether there are differences in running performance between winning and non-winning teams in the Turkish Lea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,760 Views
13 Pages

Modalities of Student Responses in Football Games According to Players’ Cognitive Structures

  • Makrem Zghibi,
  • Hajer Sahli,
  • Wissam Ben Khalifa,
  • Hatem Ghouili,
  • Maher Gharbi and
  • Monoem Haddad

13 September 2021

This work is part of a semio-constructivist conception of learning sport and physical education that emphasizes the primary role of language action in the co-construction of knowledge in/through action. The aim is to study the decision-making methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,183 Views
10 Pages

1 April 2024

Aerobic capacity plays a crucial role in football performance, making it a focal point in training processes. Small-sided games (SSGs) are widely used in football training, but the relationship between aerobic capacity and running performance during...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,065 Views
13 Pages

Validation of Player and Ball Tracking with a Local Positioning System

  • Patrick Blauberger,
  • Robert Marzilger and
  • Martin Lames

20 February 2021

The aim of this study was the validation of player and ball position measurements of Kinexon’s local positioning system (LPS) in handball and football. Eight athletes conducted a sport-specific course (SSC) and small sided football games (SSG), simul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
956 Views
12 Pages

29 July 2025

The aim of this study was to analyze and compare the external load demands of players from the Spanish women’s national football teams across the U-17, U-20, and senior categories during their respective FIFA World Cup participations. Key kinem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,054 Views
14 Pages

The Interaction of Fitness and Fatigue on Physical and Tactical Performance in Football

  • Mauro Mandorino,
  • Tim J. Gabbett,
  • Antonio Tessitore,
  • Cedric Leduc,
  • Valerio Persichetti and
  • Mathieu Lacome

25 March 2025

Elite football players face increasing physical and tactical demands due to rising match schedules emphasizing the need for effective load monitoring strategies to optimize performance and reduce injury risk. This study integrates fitness and fatigue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,432 Views
10 Pages

Phases of Match-Play in Professional Australian Football: Positional Demands and Match-Related Fatigue

  • Michael J. Rennie,
  • Stephen J. Kelly,
  • Stephen Bush,
  • Robert W. Spurrs,
  • William B. Sheehan and
  • Mark L. Watsford

15 December 2022

This study examined the influence of player position and match quarter on activity profiles during the phases of play in Australian Football. Global positioning satellite data was collected for one season from an Australian Football League team for n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,526 Views
19 Pages

Forecasting Outcomes Using Multi-Option, Advantage-Sensitive Thurstone-Motivated Models

  • László Gyarmati,
  • Csaba Mihálykó and
  • Éva Orbán-Mihálykó

In this paper, multi-option probabilistic paired comparison models are presented and applied for prediction. As these models operate on the basis of probabilities, they can estimate the likelihood of future outcomes and thus predict future events. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,064 Views
10 Pages

The Effect of Recovery Duration on Technical Proficiency during Small Sided Games of Football

  • Scott McLean,
  • Hugo Kerhervé,
  • Mitchell Naughton,
  • Geoff P. Lovell,
  • Adam D. Gorman and
  • Colin Solomon

8 July 2016

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of increasing the duration of the recovery periods separating serial bouts of small sided games (SSG) of football on technical skills (TS). Twelve semi-professional footballers (mean ± SD; age 21 ± 3...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,741 Views
18 Pages

Training Tasks vs. Match Demands: Do Football Drills Replicate Worst-Case Scenarios?

  • Adrián Díez,
  • Demetrio Lozano,
  • José Luis Arjol-Serrano,
  • Ana Vanessa Bataller-Cervero,
  • Alberto Roso-Moliner and
  • Elena Mainer-Pardos

23 July 2025

This study analyses the physical performance variables involved in different training tasks aimed at replicating the worst-case scenarios (WCSs) observed during official matches in professional football, with a focus on playing positions and occurren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,260 Views
8 Pages

25 March 2019

(1) Background: This study aimed to compare the incidence of tactical principles, the percentage of successful tactical principles, and the network properties between higher and lower aerobic power in young football players during small-sided games....

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,487 Views
9 Pages

Age-Related Differences in the Physical and Physiological Demands during Small-Sided Games with Floaters

  • Alberto Rábano-Muñoz,
  • Jose Asian-Clemente,
  • Eduardo Sáez de Villarreal,
  • Jack Nayler and
  • Bernardo Requena

2 April 2019

The purpose of this study was to compare the physical and physiological demands of a small-sided game (SSG) in three different age groups (senior, under-19 [U-19] and under-17 [U-17]) belonging to the same academy. A further aim was to contrast the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,215 Views
17 Pages

Association Between the COL5A1 rs12722 Genotype and the Prevalence of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture in Professional Football Players

  • Manuel Manchón-Davó,
  • Juan Del Coso,
  • Francisco J. Vera-Garcia,
  • Joaquín González-Rodenas,
  • Aarón Miralles-Iborra,
  • Gil Rodas,
  • Roberto López-Del Campo and
  • Víctor Moreno-Pérez

28 May 2025

Background: Previous studies have tested the association between the COL5A1 rs12722 polymorphism and the risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. Overall, their results are contradictory because most studies used relatively small samples and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,218 Views
13 Pages

An Exploratory Study Investigating the Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Collegiate Division I American Football Athletes

  • Floris C. Wardenaar,
  • Kinta D. Schott,
  • Alex E. Mohr,
  • Carmen P. Ortega-Santos and
  • John E. Connolly

Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms may limit performance, but their prevalence and impact among team sports athletes is not well-documented. The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of GI symptoms in a small sample of collegiate DI Ameri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,704 Views
18 Pages

Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Physical Activity Patterns Maximizing Fitness and Minimizing Fatness Variation in Malaysian Adolescents: A Novel Application of Reduced Rank Regression

  • Zoi Toumpakari,
  • Russell Jago,
  • Laura D. Howe,
  • Hazreen Abdul Majid,
  • Angeliki Papadaki,
  • Shooka Mohammadi,
  • Muhammad Yazid Jalaludin,
  • Maznah Dahlui,
  • Mohd Nahar Azmi Mohamed and
  • Tin Tin Su
  • + 1 author

Patterns of physical activity (PA) that optimize both fitness and fatness may better predict cardiometabolic health. Reduced rank regression (RRR) was applied to identify combinations of the type (e.g., football vs. skipping), location and timing of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,946 Views
11 Pages

COVID-19 Confinement Effects on Game Actions during Competition Restart in Professional Soccer Players

  • Abraham García-Aliaga,
  • Moisés Marquina,
  • Ignacio Refoyo Román,
  • Diego Muriarte Solana,
  • Juan A. Piñero Madrona,
  • Roberto López del Campo,
  • Fabio Nevado Garrosa and
  • Daniel Mon-López

The main objective of the present study was to compare high-intensity actions in a week of three matches before and after the COVID-19 lockdown. The observational methodology was used. This study analysed 551 professional soccer players from 22 diffe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,427 Views
19 Pages

29 April 2025

Background: Iron deficiency affects up to 70% of female athletes, yet the effectiveness of improving iron status in team sport athletes remains unclear. Purpose: To evaluate the impact of variations in iron status on physical performance in elite fem...