Tag: performance analysis

Join us in Reykjavík, Iceland, on May 21-22, 2025, for the second edition of the Nordic Football Research Conference, hosted by Reykjavík University and the Football Association of Iceland. This prestigious event, held in collaboration with the football associations of Finland, Denmark, Sweden, the Faroe Islands and Norway. This version is dedicated to research related to helping associations, clubs, and coaches achieve results on the field. The focus is research and applied presentations on coaching, performance, analytics, and sport psychology.

The mission of Science and Medicine in Football is to advance the theoretical knowledge, methodological approaches and the professional practice associated with the sport of football. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Inter-methodological quantification of the target change for performance test outcomes relevant to elite female soccer players by Naomi Datson, Lorenzo Lolli, Barry Drust, Greg Atkinson, Matthew Weston & Warren Gregson.

The mission of Science and Medicine in Football is to advance the theoretical knowledge, methodological approaches and the professional practice associated with the sport of football. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Evaluation of nutrition knowledge in elite and sub-elite Gaelic football players by Michèle Renard, Ana Anton-Solanas, David T. Kelly & Ciarán Ó Catháin.

The mission of Science and Medicine in Football is to advance the theoretical knowledge, methodological approaches and the professional practice associated with the sport of football. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Resilience as a protective factor for well-being and emotional stability in elite-level football players during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic by Esben Elholm Madsen, Peter Krustrup, Carsten Hvid Larsen, Anne-Marie Elbe, Johan Michael Wikman, Andreas Ivarsson & Franziska Lautenbach.

The World Congress of Performance Analysis of Sport 2022 & International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport 2022 is planned to be held in Vienna Austria, from September 10–13 2022. The program will include presentations from renowned keynote speakers and leading experts, as well as oral and poster presentations from world-class researchers touching on cutting edge subjects and newest technologies from the field of Performance Analysis and Computer Science in Sport.

The mission of Science and Medicine in Football is to advance the theoretical knowledge, methodological approaches and the professional practice associated with the sport of football. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Do elite soccer players cover less distance when their team spent more time in possession of the ball? by Miguel Lorenzo-Martinez, Anton Kalén, Ezequiel Rey, Roberto López-Del Campo, Ricardo Resta & Carlos Lago-Peñas.

The mission of Science and Medicine in Football is to advance the theoretical knowledge, methodological approaches and the professional practice associated with the sport of football. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Examining the effect of reduced action capabilities on defensive anticipation in a 1-vs-1 task by Ricky Wilson, David Alder, Matt Dicks & Jamie Poolton.

The mission of Science and Medicine in Football is to advance the theoretical knowledge, methodological approaches and the professional practice associated with the sport of football. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Effects of mental fatigue on soccer-specific performance in young playe by Luca Filipas, Stefano Borghi, Antonio La Torre & Mitchell R. Smith.

The mission of Science and Medicine in Football is to advance the theoretical knowledge, methodological approaches and the professional practice associated with the sport of football. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INJURIES IN ELITE MALE AND FEMALE FUTSAL: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS by Iñaki Ruiz-Pérez, Alejandro López-Valenciano, José Ll Elvira, Alberto García-Gómez, Mark De Ste Croix & Francisco Ayala.

Historically, studies of performance have often been tied to star images, focusing on issues of celebrity in professional, public, and private spaces. As a...