Physical and match performance of female soccer players

The English Football Association (FA) reported female soccer was the nation’s number one team sport for female sport participation (1.38 m). There is no research on physical- and match- performance of female soccer players in England at the elite level and no investigations in to the new re-structure that the English FA made in 2011 for both senior and youth levels. Therefore, the overarching aim of this research thesis was to develop physical performance and match performance profiles of female soccer players in England across senior and youth players at both elite and non-elite levels of play