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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Sports Med Int Open 2019; 03(03): E82-E88
DOI: 10.1055/a-0943-3682
Training & Testing
Eigentümer und Copyright ©Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2019

Match Running Performance on Three Different Competitive Standards in Norwegian Soccer

Atle Sæterbakken
1   Department of Sport, Food and Natural Sciences, Hogskulen pa Vestlandet - Campus Sogndal, Sogndal, Norway
,
Vebjorn Haug
1   Department of Sport, Food and Natural Sciences, Hogskulen pa Vestlandet - Campus Sogndal, Sogndal, Norway
,
Dan Fransson
2   Departement of Food, and Nutrition and Sport Science, Center of health and Performance, Gothenburg, Sweden
,
Halvard Nikolai Grendstad
3   Department of Food, and Nutrition and Sport Science, Hogskulen pa Vestlandet, Bergen, Norway
,
Hilde Stokvold Gundersen
3   Department of Food, and Nutrition and Sport Science, Hogskulen pa Vestlandet, Bergen, Norway
,
Vegard Fusche Moe
1   Department of Sport, Food and Natural Sciences, Hogskulen pa Vestlandet - Campus Sogndal, Sogndal, Norway
,
Einar Ylvisaker
1   Department of Sport, Food and Natural Sciences, Hogskulen pa Vestlandet - Campus Sogndal, Sogndal, Norway
,
Matthew Shaw
1   Department of Sport, Food and Natural Sciences, Hogskulen pa Vestlandet - Campus Sogndal, Sogndal, Norway
,
Amund Riiser
1   Department of Sport, Food and Natural Sciences, Hogskulen pa Vestlandet - Campus Sogndal, Sogndal, Norway
,
Vidar Andersen
1   Department of Sport, Food and Natural Sciences, Hogskulen pa Vestlandet - Campus Sogndal, Sogndal, Norway
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received 19 February 2019
revised 13 May 2019

accepted 14 May 2019

Publication Date:
16 October 2019 (online)

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Abstract

The aim of the study was to compare running performance of three competitive standards and to examine the effects of being promoted to a higher league in Norwegian football. One clubʼs first and second team were included. The first team consisted of professional soccer players playing at Level 2 (2015 season) and Level 1 (2016 season). The second team consisted of amateurs playing at Level 4. A fully automatic tracking system was used to examine running performance, divided into different running-speed categories and playing position. Forty-one matches were included containing 278 observations. Level 1 performed 61 and 51% sprinting compared to Level 2 and Level 4 but similar high-speed running. Similar high-speed running distances were observed only for the different playing positions at Level 1 compared to Level 2 and 4. The sprinting distance was greater for the central defender and attacker, and the number of accelerations was greater for central midfielders and wide midfielders’ playing at Level 1 compared to lower competitive standards. In conclusion, better competitive standards resulted in greater high-intensity actions than lower leagues in Norwegian soccer. Furthermore, only central defenders and attackers increased their high-intensity locomotions when the team was promoted.

Key words

tracking - performance - high-speed running - sprinting - playing positions
 

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