Accumulative weekly load in a professional football team: with special reference to match playing time and game position

Garcia Martin, A, Casamichana Gómez, D, Castellano, J, Bradley, PS and Gomez, A (2021) Accumulative weekly load in a professional football team: with special reference to match playing time and game position. Biology of Sport, 39 (1). pp. 115-124. ISSN 0860-021X

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to compare weekly accumulative load during the in-season competitive period by professional soccer players according to the amount of time played in official matches (90-min, >60-min, <60-min, and 0-min) regarding the players’ position. Twenty-four professional outfield football players were monitored by GPS devices during training sessions and official matches and the accumulative weekly load were calculated for the following external load variables: total distance (TD; m), high speed running (HSR; >19.8 km·h-1), sprint meters (SPR; >25.2 km·h-1), high metabolic load distance (HMLD; >25.5 W·kg-1), number of accelerations (ACC; >3 m·s-2) and decelerations (DEC; <-3 m·s-2). This study revealed that players (as a whole o per demarcation) with more match playing time had a higher accumulative weekly load for most of the variables, but particularly at TD and HMLD (90-min and >60-min vs. <60-min and 0-min), HSR (90-min vs. <60-min and 0-min) and SPR (90-min vs. <60-min and 0-min). In addition, less positional variation was observed in relation to the competition requirements. This information would allow coaches to refine the required load with the objective of optimizing performance to soccer players.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine
Divisions:	Sport and Exercise Sciences
Publisher:	Institute of Sport
Date of acceptance:	10 January 2021
Date of first compliant Open Access:	17 March 2022
Date Deposited:	17 Mar 2022 11:51
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2022 12:00
DOI or ID number:	10.5114/biolsport.2021.102924
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16511

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