To assess peak speeds, usually assess players capacity to quickly accelerate and achieve/maintain a maximal speed in 30 m distance (Altmann et al., 2019). During these tests, players often start from stationary positions, reacting to a sound signal (Haff & Triplett, 2016). However, one may question these test procedures since peak speeds achieved during tests generally exceed peak speeds registered during match...
Female football has seen a large increase in popularity worldwide, which resulted in an expansion of well-organized leagues in various countries. The best leagues are gradually becoming more popular, mostly due to the talent that every team has, leading to a more competitive scenario. The Portuguese Liga BPI is approaching full professionalisation, yet there still seems to be a great disparity in terms of team ...
Offensive transitions in modern football have been identified as decisive moments in a game, as they offer a high potential for scoring goals and creating defensive imbalances. In order to investigate the impact of offensive transitions on the performance of different national football leagues, this study analysed data from 1,151 games of the season 2019/20 corresponding to all games in the first round of games...
When referring to football, the concept of ‘game style’ refers to a team's distinctive approach to the game, which can be identified by various factors namely tactics, formations, and strategies. All team aims for success by maintaining their playing patterns standards which are congruent and aligned with their playing style. This study compared the goal-scoring patterns such as a result of “non offensive trans...
Fußball wird mit zwei Mannschaften gespielt, wobei die Spieler direkt, indirekt und gleichzeitig interagieren, um ein Ziel zu erreichen, das das Erzielen von Toren beinhaltet, während gleichzeitig verhindert wird, dass der Gegner ein Tor schießt (Gréhaigne et al., 1997; Zaccaro et al., 2001). In diesem Sinne setzt sich der Fußball aus Individuen zusammen, die ihre Bewegungen koordinieren und kooperative Beziehu...
This chapter presents the need to explore advanced methodologies that can process positional data in football and potentially provide information about how the players’ movements are related to each other. The players’ high-resolution trajectories were used to calculate spatio-temporal correlation-based metrics with other players (teammates and opponents) and the ball, in order to identify highly correlated seg...
This study aimed to compare beach volleyball performance indicators between winning and losing teams in different age groups. Game actions from the 2010 to 2011 Men’s World Championships were observed using video match analysis (6095 from under-19, 5138 from under-21 and 8705 from senior matches). Variables assessed were: number of points won in each complex of the game, number of points and errors by game acti...
The present article aimed to perform a systematic review of the available literature in relation to the analysis of sports performance in beach volleyball from match analysis. Web of Science, SportDiscus(, PubMed, Scopus and Academic Search Complete databases were used to identify peer-reviewed published articles. The authors conducted a content analysis according to goals, variables of analysis and methods use...
This study aimed to assess the effects of age groups and players’ role (blocker vs. defender specialist) in beach volleyball in relation to physical and temporal variables, considering quality of opposition. 1101 rallies from Under 19 (U19), 933 rallies from Under 21 (U21), and 1480 rallies from senior (senior) (Men’s Swatch World Championships, 2010-2011) were observed using video match analysis. Cluster analy...