ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2019
Bio-Banding in Youth Sports: Background, Concept, and Application.
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99 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Effect of Bio-Banding On Talent Identification in Youth Soccer: A Systematic Review.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2026Pooled it
- The Incidence of Sports-Related Concussion in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2025Pooled it
- How to improve technical and tactical actions of dominant and non-dominant players in children's football?PloS one · 2021Trial
- Evidence-Based Insights for the Development and Talent Promotion of Young Athletes in a National Sports Context.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Efficiencies in Physical Talent Identification Among Australian Adolescents: A Retrospective, Cross-Sectional Observational Study.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Article
- Applied performance ecology: testing strategies of talent identification in sports using ecological systems.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- The Contact Conundrum: Are We Introducing Contact at the Correct Time in Youth Sports?Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Review
- Plyometric Performance in U13 Basketball: Influence of Modified Competitions and Maturational Status with GPS Tracking.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Enhancing physical, technical, tactical, and cognitive performance in female youth football players using eye-tracking and neurofeedback training: an exploratory study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Bio-banding in football: a scoping review with evidence gap map.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Impact of biological maturation on match workload in Portuguese elite male academy soccer players.Biology of sport · 2026Article
- A matter of time or timing: longitudinal analysis of sensitive periods for linear running speed performance and development in elite youth soccer.Biology of sport · 2026Article
- Impact of biological maturation on physical tests performance in Portuguese elite male academy soccer players.Biology of sport · 2026Article
- Stepping up: A qualitative examination of youth Camogie players' perceptions of playing up an age grade.PloS one · 2026Article
- Are Sex Differences in Youth Weightlifting Performance Explained by Fat-Free Mass? A Controlled Analysis.Journal of strength and conditioning research · 2026Article
- Physical and Performance Characteristics of Elite Youth Male Basketball Players Characterized by Maturity Status.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Plyometric Performance in Under-10 Soccer Players: Effects of Modified Competitions and Maturational Status.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Selection of the Extremes - Male Junior and Adult Ice Hockey Success in relation to Relative Age and its Interaction with Biological Maturation.Sports medicine - open · 2025Article
- Positional relative age effect in europe's top ten football leagues.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Skeletal age prediction models by maturity status in male soccer players.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Inter-individual differences in size, maturity status, function, and behavior among youth of the same chronological age (CA) have long been a concern in grouping for sport. Bio-banding is a recent attempt to accommodate maturity-associated variation among youth in sport. The historical basis of the concept of maturity-matching and its relevance to youth sport, and bio-banding as currently applied are reviewed. Maturity matching in sport has often been noted but has not been systematically applied. Bio-banding is a recent iteration of maturity matching for grouping youth athletes into 'bands' or groups based on characteristic(s) other than CA. The percentage of predicted young adult height at the time of observation is the estimate of maturity status of choice. Several applications of bio-banding in youth soccer have indicated positive responses from players and coaches. Bio-banding reduces, but does not eliminate, maturity-associated variation. The potential utility of bio-banding for appropriate training loads, injury prevention, and fitness assessment merits closer attention, specifically during the interval of pubertal growth. The currently used height prediction equation requires further evaluation.
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