ReviewSports (Basel, Switzerland)2025
A Narrative Review of the Velocity and Acceleration Profile in Football: The Influence of Playing Position.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Position-Specific External Load Between Official Matches and Small-, Medium- and Large-Sided Games in Professional Football.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Article
- Impact of Sprint Performance Characteristics Across Acceleration-Initial Speed Profiles in LALIGA.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Wearable sensor assessment of neuromuscular latency: revealing the strength-timing trade-off in female soccer.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Seasonal Analysis of Match External Load in Hungarian Second-Division Professional Football Across Three Competitive Seasons Using GPS-Derived Match-Average Data.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Injury Epidemiology in Elite U17 Football Players: A Prospective Study Across Six Competitive Seasons.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Short-term detraining in semi-professional male football players: impact of a 5-day mid-season break on performance - an observational study.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Vertical Force-Velocity Profiling in Soccer: A Systematic Review of Evidence, Assumptions, and Limitations.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Review
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- Toward autonomous artificial intelligence agents in sports science: a modular framework for development, validation, and implementation.Biology of sport · 2026Review
- Trends in Semiprofessional Scottish Football Players' Acceleration and Deceleration Loads Across Playing Positions During Competitive Play and Training.Translational sports medicine · 2026Article
- Large-sided games do not replicate the positional worst-case scenarios of official matches in professional football.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
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- Uncovering the Latent Components of Physical Performance in Professional Soccer: Evidence from the Turkish First Division.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Differences in Anthropometric and Body Composition Factors of Blind 5-a-Side Soccer Players in Response to Playing Position: A Systematic Review.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Review
- Validity of Coupling TRACAB's Gen5 and Mediacoach Systems to Calculate Accelerations and Decelerations in Professional Football.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
To enhance athletic performance and reduce the risk of injury, load quantification has allowed for a better understanding of the individual characteristics of the physical demands on soccer players during training or competition. In this regard, it appears crucial to summarize scientific evidence to provide useful information and future directions related to the speed and acceleration profiles of male soccer players. This review aims to evaluate the findings reflected in the available literature on both profiles in football, synthesizing and discussing data from scientific articles, while providing insights into quantification methods, employed thresholds, tracking systems, terminology, playing position, and microcycle day. Therefore, it is hoped that this narrative review can support objective decision-making in practice for coaches, sports scientists, and medical teams regarding individualized load management and the appropriate selection of metrics, to explore current trends in soccer player profiles.
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