Abstract
BackgroundQuantifying soccer players’ performance using different types of technologies helps coaches in making tactical decisions and maintaining players’ health. Little is known about the relation between the performance measuring technologies and the metrics they measure. The aim of this study is to identify and group the different types of technologies that are used to track the health-related performance metrics of soccer players.MethodsWe conducted a systematic search for articles using IEEE Xplore, PubMed, ACM DL, and papers from the Sports Medicine Journal. The papers were screened and extracted by two reviewers. The included papers had to fall under several criteria, including being about soccer, measuring health-related performance, and using technology to measure players’ performance. A total of 1,113 papers were reviewed and 1,069 papers were excluded through the selection process.ResultsWe reviewed 44 papers and grouped them based on the technology used and health-related metrics tracked. In terms of technology, we categorized the used technologies into wearable technologies (N=27/44) and in-field technologies (N=14/44). We categorized the tracked health-related metrics into physiological metrics (N=16/44) and physical metrics (N=44/44). We found out that wearable technologies are mainly used to track physical metrics (N=27/27) and are also used to track physiological metrics (N=14/27). In-field technologies are only used to track physical metrics (N=24/24).ConclusionUnderstanding how technology is related to players’ performance and how it is used leads to an improvement in the monitoring process and performance outcomes of the players.
Highlights
Quantifying soccer players’ performance using different types of technologies helps coaches in making tactical decisions and maintaining players’ health
As soccer is gaining popularity around the world, soccer organizations and researchers are attempting to improve the overall performance of the players, maintain their health, and win more matches [1]
Soccer coaches are interested in technical and healthrelated performance metrics [5] as both are essential when it comes to quantifying the overall performance of the players [6, 7]
Summary
Quantifying soccer players’ performance using different types of technologies helps coaches in making tactical decisions and maintaining players’ health. The aim of this study is to identify and group the different types of technologies that are used to track the health-related performance metrics of soccer players. To monitor the players’ performance, soccer organizations and researchers are using different types of tracking technologies that are capable of tracking different metrics of the players. These technologies replace the manual process where specialized observers review taped videos of the matches and code players’ activity patterns [3]. These technologies help reduce the time needed to collect data about the players during matches and assist coaches in gathering more data about different aspects of the players
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