Analysis of Match Performance Indicators of Women Soccer Players in World Cups.

Atasever, Gökhan; Kıyıcı, Fatih

The aim of this study is to compare the technical analysis of the successful and unsuccessful countries in the FIFA Women's World Cup held in France in 2019. The study group of the research consisted of the countries that finished their groups in the first 2 places and the countries that finished their groups in the last 2 places in the FIFA World Cup held in France in 2019. As match technical analysis criteria, Instat Index, Goal, Position, Successful Goal Position, Goal from Penalty, Counterattack, Corner, Shot, Accurate Shot, Pass, Accurate Key pass and midfield were considered. SPSS v25 package program was used to analyse the data obtained from the research. Normal distribution test was applied to determine the hypothesis test type (parametric / non - parametric) to be applied in data analysis. Skewness, Kurtosis, Shapiro Wilk, Kolmogorov - Smirnov and Q - Q plots values were examined whether the data were normally distributed or not. and a decision was made. Since the obtained data showed normal distribution, independent sample t-test, one of the parametric tests, was applied. It was determined that there was a statistically significant difference between successful and unsuccessful countries in all technical parameters in favor of successful countries. As a result, it highlighted the team performance variables that differentiated successful and unsuccessful countries during the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. The findings showed that winning countries had more possession and made more total passes, accurate passes, shots and shots on target, successful aerial challenges, ball recoveries and corner kicks compared to losing countries.

FRANCE; FEDERATION internationale de football association; WOMEN soccer players; PASSPORTS

Online Journal of Recreation & Sports, 2023, Vol 12, Issue 4, p824

2146-9598

Academic Journal

10.22282/tojras.1352608