Is ball-possession style more physically demanding than counter-attacking? The influence of playing style on match performance in professional soccer

L Forcher, L Forcher, H Wäsche, D Jekauc… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In soccer, the offensive style of play describes characteristic behavioral features of the
players at team level during the offensive phase of matches. This study aimed to investigate …

The principles of tactical formation identification in association football (soccer)—a survey

H Sotudeh - Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2025 - research-collection.ethz.ch
This paper reviews the principles employed to identify team tactical formations in association
football, covering over two decades of research based on event and tracking data. It first …

Tactical Situations and Playing Styles as Key Performance Indicators in Soccer

S Plakias, T Tsatalas, V Armatas, D Tsaopoulos… - Journal of Functional …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The game of soccer is complex and unpredictable, demanding multifaceted strategies for
success. Performance analysis has evolved, focusing on key performance indicators (KPIs) …

Contextualised physical metrics: The physical demands vary with phase of play during elite soccer match play

BWC Jerome, M Stoeckl, B Mackriell… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The physical demands of elite soccer match play have traditionally been measured using
aggregated whole‐match metrics. However, match play is increasingly considered as …

Masked autoencoder for multiagent trajectories

Y Rudolph, U Brefeld - Machine Learning, 2025 - Springer
Automatically labeling trajectories of multiple agents is key to behavioral analyses but
usually requires a large amount of manual annotations. This also applies to the domain of …

Pass Receiver and Outcome Prediction in Soccer Using Temporal Graph Networks

P Rahimian, H Kim, M Schmid, L Toka - International Workshop on …, 2023 - Springer
This paper explores the application of the Temporal Graph Network (TGN) model to predict
the receiver and outcome of a pass in soccer. We construct two TGN models that estimate …

Spatial partitioning of the football pitch based on successful passing paths

S Cao - International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
While it is evident that disparities exist across various areas on a football pitch, and
numerous studies have investigated spatio-temporal datasets in football for various …

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

L Lolli, P Bauer, C Irving, D Bonanno… - … and Medicine in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Creating an augmented possession framework to evaluate phases of play and application in international football

B Deb, J Fernandez-Navarro, I Jarman… - Journal of Sports …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Performance<? show [AQ ID= GQ2 POS=-24pt]?><? show [AQ ID= GQ4]?><? show [AQ ID=
GQ5 POS= 12pt]?> analysts routinely perform game plan evaluations of their in possession …

Contextual Sprint Classification in Soccer Based on Deep Learning

H Kim, GH Joe, J Yoon, SK Ko - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.15659, 2024 - arxiv.org
The analysis of high-intensity runs (or sprints) in soccer has long been a topic of interest for
sports science researchers and practitioners. In particular, recent studies suggested …