A preliminary multi-club project: Understanding player technical outcomes in European football academies training sessions.

IF 3.1 2区医学 Q2 SPORT SCIENCES

Journal of Sports Sciences Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-04 DOI:10.1080/02640414.2025.2539597

Nick Gearing, Steve Barrett, Matt Bridge

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The optimisation of player development is a key area of interest for professional football academies. Considerable attention has been given to the physical outcomes of training sessions with less work on technical outcomes. Foot-mounted inertial measurement units (Playermaker) were used to track technical actions across 33,156 player-session data points from 11 European academies in five countries. Metrics included Mean Touches per player (MT), Mean Touches per player perminute (MTPM), Mean Releases per player (MR), and Mean Releases per player perminute (MRPM). Comparisons were made between opposed and unopposed training formats and across English Category 1 to 3 academies. Unopposed sessions produced higher MT (150 ± 107) than opposed sessions (98 ± 89) across all age groups. Belgian academies showed the highest technical outputs, while Norwegian and English academies had the lowest. English Category 2 and 3 clubs recorded higher MT and MR than Category 1 clubs, potentially due to more condensed weekly training schedules. Unopposed training activities result in higher MTPM and MRPM than opposed formats. Mixed training designs, incorporating both formats, are widely used across European youth academies and may support more balanced technical development.

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一个初步的多俱乐部项目：了解欧洲足球学院训练课程中球员的技术成果。

球员发展的优化是职业足球学院感兴趣的一个关键领域。对培训课程的实际成果给予了相当大的关注，而对技术成果的关注较少。脚上安装的惯性测量单元（Playermaker）用于跟踪来自5个国家11个欧洲学院的33,156个球员会话数据点的技术动作。指标包括每名球员的平均触碰次数（MT）、每名球员每分钟的平均触碰次数（MTPM）、每名球员的平均释放次数（MR）和每名球员每分钟的平均释放次数（MRPM）。比较了对立和非对立的训练形式和跨英语1类到3类学院。在所有年龄组中，无对抗组产生的MT（150±107）高于对抗组（98±89）。比利时学院的技术产出最高，而挪威和英国学院的技术产出最低。英语2类和3类俱乐部的MT和MR比1类俱乐部高，这可能是由于每周训练计划更紧凑。非对立的培训活动比对立的形式产生更高的MTPM和MRPM。结合两种形式的混合训练设计在欧洲青年学院广泛使用，可能支持更平衡的技术发展。

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Journal of Sports Sciences 社会科学-运动科学

CiteScore

6.30

自引率

2.90%

发文量

147

审稿时长

12 months

期刊介绍： The Journal of Sports Sciences has an international reputation for publishing articles of a high standard and is both Medline and Clarivate Analytics-listed. It publishes research on various aspects of the sports and exercise sciences, including anatomy, biochemistry, biomechanics, performance analysis, physiology, psychology, sports medicine and health, as well as coaching and talent identification, kinanthropometry and other interdisciplinary perspectives. The emphasis of the Journal is on the human sciences, broadly defined and applied to sport and exercise. Besides experimental work in human responses to exercise, the subjects covered will include human responses to technologies such as the design of sports equipment and playing facilities, research in training, selection, performance prediction or modification, and stress reduction or manifestation. Manuscripts considered for publication include those dealing with original investigations of exercise, validation of technological innovations in sport or comprehensive reviews of topics relevant to the scientific study of sport.