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ArticleBiology of sport2025

Effects of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 on match running performance in the Spanish professional soccer league: A pilot study.

Tomás García-Calvo, José Carlos Ponce-Bordón, David Lobo-Triviño, Roberto López Del Campo, Ricardo Resta, Javier Raya-González

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Article in Biology of sport, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Tomás García-CalvoFaculty of Sport Sciences, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain.
José Carlos Ponce-BordónFaculty of Sport Sciences, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain.
David Lobo-TriviñoFaculty of Sport Sciences, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain.
Roberto López Del CampoDepartment of Competitions and Mediacoach, LaLiga, Madrid, Spain.
Ricardo RestaDepartment of Competitions and Mediacoach, LaLiga, Madrid, Spain.
Javier Raya-GonzálezResearch Group on Sport and Physical Education for Personal and Social Development, Department of Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education Sciences and Psychology, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 was scheduled during the in-season period of the European teams, impacting soccer clubs' routines. This study aimed to analyse the influence of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 on match running performance in the First Spanish soccer league, considering the players' participation. A total of 11,530 individual match observations from 582 professional soccer players competing in the First Spanish soccer league (n = 370 matches) over the 2022/23 season were collected. Soccer players were classified according to participation in the World Cup: participants and non-participants. Pre-World Cup (1

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PMID40657006
PMCPMC12244402

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