Abstract
Relative Age Effect Among Elite Youth Female Soccer Players across the United States
Highlights
The relative age effect (RAE) in sport refers to a bias in distribution of athletes selected to elite level teams
Despite the growth in women’s soccer around the world (FIFA Activity Report, 2017) and the wealth of research published on RAEs in soccer there are significantly fewer studies that examine this phenomenon among female soccer players (Cobley et al, 2009; Smith et al, 2018)
The birthdate distributions for the U14-U18 girls competing in the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) and the birthdate distributions for the general population are presented in Table 1, along with the results of the chi-square test, effect sizes, and standardized residuals
Summary
The relative age effect (RAE) in sport refers to a bias in distribution of athletes selected to elite level teams. The existence of RAEs among female athletes has yet to be confirmed. Despite the growth in women’s soccer around the world (FIFA Activity Report, 2017) and the wealth of research published on RAEs in soccer there are significantly fewer studies that examine this phenomenon among female soccer players (Cobley et al, 2009; Smith et al, 2018). The results of this study are unique among the research on RAEs in female athletes
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