ArticleBiology of sport2024
Relative age effect across the talent identification process of youth female soccer players in the United States: Influence of birth year, position, biological maturation, and skill level.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The Role of Machine Learning in Talent Identification for Team Sports: A Systematic Review.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Physical and Developmental Characteristics of Elite Under-19 Female Cricketers: Positional Differences, Relative Age Effects, and Maturity.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Player ranking is associated with physical performance and body composition in 12-year-old female soccer players.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Biological maturity but not relative age biases exist in female international youth soccer players relative to the general population.Biology of sport · 2025Article
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- Selection biases in elite youth handball: early maturation compensates for younger relative age.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Relative age effect at Concacaf championships: Influence of sex, age, nationality, playing position, and playing status.PloS one · 2025Article
- Environmental factors associated with talent identification of women's youth national team soccer players in the United States.PloS one · 2025Article
- Born to win? Investigating the relative age effects in the big five European women's football leagues.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Relative age effects in German youth A and B men's soccer teams: survival of the fittest?Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Looking beyond relative age to understand relative advantage and disadvantage in talent development.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
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Abstract
The aims of the study were to examine the relative age effect (RAE) in youth female soccer players in the United States (US) and the influence of birth year, playing position, estimated maturation and skill ratings. The sample consisted of 3,364 youth female soccer players who were active in the 2021-2022 US soccer season across three main stages of the talent identification (TID) process for Youth National Team (YNT) players (i.e.,
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