Immediate effects of Ramadan on objective time asleep in male youth football players from the Middle East: an interrupted time-series study.

Objective: To examine the abrupt effects of Ramadan onset on actigraphy-based time asleep in male youth Muslim football players.

Methods: We adopted a quasi-experimental, interrupted time-series research design and tracked objective time asleep over a minimum of 12 consecutive nights in the two weeks prior to and immediately after Ramadan onset, respectively. Twenty-two, male academy student-athletes (chronological age range: 12.

Data analytics in the football industry: a survey investigating operational frameworks and practices in professional clubs and national federations from around the world.

The use of data and analytics in professional football organisations has grown steadily over the last decade. Nevertheless, how and whether these advances in sports analytics address the needs of professional football remain unexplored. Practitioners from national federations qualified for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ and professional football clubs from an international community of practitioners took part in a survey exploring the characteristics of their data analytics infrastructure, their role, and their value for elaborating player monitoring and positional data.

Night-to-night variability of objective sleep outcomes in youth Middle Eastern football players.

Objective: To describe components of night-to-night variation in objective measures of sleep.

Methods: We conducted a secondary data analysis of consecutive and chronologically ordered actigraphy-based measurements for time in bed (min), time asleep (min), and wake-after-sleep onset (min). This investigation examined 575 individual night-based measures available for a sub-sample of fifty-two, male youth Middle Eastern football players tracked over a 14-day surveillance period (chronological age range: 12.

Exploring Growth, Maturity, and Age as Injury Risk Factors in High-Level Youth Football.

Rapid somatic growth and biological maturity status may affect injury patterns in youth football, yet firm conclusions cannot be drawn from the existing research. We aimed to explore growth velocity, maturity, and age as injury risk factors in 95 academy players (11.9-15.