Head in the game: the impact of cognitive abilities on performance of National Football League quarterbacks by R. Thomas Boone, Nicholas S. Zambrotta, Andrew M. Manocchio, James K. Bowman

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’Creative accounting’ in the Spanish professional football League: An attempt to dodge the rules economic control? by Rudemarlyn Urdaneta Camacho, Juan Carlos Guevara Pérez, Emilio Martín Vallespín, Fernando Llena Macarulla

“… Over the past decade, many studies have analysed the contribution of UEFA's Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations and the Reglamento de Control Económico (RCE) of the Spanish Football League (LFP) to the financial sustainability of clubs. …”
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Predictors of Crowd Effect in Football: Evidence From Five Major Football Leagues of Europe by Abdullah Yiğit Güngör, Tuncer Gövdeli

“…This study aims to determine predictors of crowd effect in five major football leagues in Europe. Literature review shows that crowd effect can be determined as size, proximity or density for the analysis. …”
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The Estimation of German Football League (Bundesliga) Team Ranking via Artificial Neural Network Model by Faruk Kılıç, Hasan Aka, Serkan İbiş, Zait Burak Aktuğ

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Characteristics of participants in a public rubella antibody testing program conducted at a Japan professional football league venue by Toshinori Nishizawa, Kuniyoshi Hayashi, Noriyuki Amano, Gautam A. Deshpande, Hiroko Arioka

Subjects: “…Japan's professional football league…”
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Comparative analysis of models of sports development management on example of football industry: international experience and russian peculiarities by Sh. M. Ramazanov

Subjects: “…the price of media rights in european football leagues…”
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An integrated dataset of spatiotemporal and event data in elite soccer by Manuel Bassek, Robert Rein, Hendrik Weber, Daniel Memmert

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The Effect of Pitch Surface on Match Running Performance in Women’s Soccer by Manca Kutnjak, Vladimir Pavlinovic, Toni Modric

“…The players’ MRPs (AT; 96 observations, NG; 80 observations) were obtained from all matches (<i>n</i> = 22) of the First Slovenian women’s football league in the season 2023/24 using a global positioning system. …”
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THE PREFERENCE OF FOREIGN-BASED (MIGRANT) PLAYERS OVER HOME-BASED PLAYERS IN THE SUPER EAGLES OF NIGERIA: A COLORATION OF ‘COLONIAL MENTALITY’ by JOSEPH OKECHUKWU NWOKE

“…There abound Nigerian players in the Nigeria Professional Football League and foreign leagues. The Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) is in charge of running football in Nigeria as it superintends over the Nigerian national football teams and recruit coaches. …”
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PERSPECTIVES ON THE SPECIFIC FOOTBALL PARAMETERS OF ROMANIA’S THIRD LEAGUE by Antonescu Andrei Gabriel, Stănescu Monica Iulia, Palade Tudor

“…In our work we set out to observe a totally different world from what "great performance" means -the 3rd Football League from Romania. We videotaped and analyzed several games from the 2023-2024 season and indexed player actions. …”
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In-season whole-body vibration training enhances vertical jump performance in professional soccer goalkeepers by Adam Hawkey, David Morrıson

“….; mass = 84 ± 10.3 kg; height = 1.84 ± 0.1 m) from the English Football League Division One were randomly assigned to either a WBVT or control group. …”
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Introduction of the ‘Blue Card’ Concussion Policy to Semi-Elite Australian Football: Medical Staff Experiences and Perceptions by Jacob R Msando, Gill Cowen, Sarah A Harris, Troy Kirkham, Myles C Murphy

“…# Background The Western Australian Football League (WAFL) introduced a new umpire driven ‘blue-card rule’ for concussion, but its benefit to the sports medicine team is unknown…”
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Prediction of football injuries using GPS-based data in Iranian professional football players: a machine learning approach by Reza Saberisani, Amir Hossein Barati, Mostafa Zarei, Paulo Santos, Armin Gorouhi, Luca Paolo Ardigò, Hadi Nobari

“…Player injury data and raw GPS data from all training and competition sessions throughout the football league season were gathered (214 training sessions and 34 competition sessions). …”
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Implementing the Reverse Acute to Chronic Workload Ratio Model to Improve Movement Capacity and Roster Availability: An Example Using Data from the NFL by Trevor Short, Paulette M Yamada

“…Here we use the ACWR concept and previously reported in-game data derived from the National Football League to show how to reverse engineer the targeted number of efforts and distances to assist in preparatory pre-season training program design. …”
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Fitness Profiling in Women Soccer: Performance Characteristics of Elite Turkish Women Soccer Players by Aras Beka Yaşar, Serdar Bayrakdaroğlu, Beyza Yıldız, İbrahim Can

“…In accordance with this purpose, 11 women football players (age: 21,5 ± 2,58 years; height: 160,8 ± 5,17 cm; weight: 55,8 ± 7,23 kg) who plays in Turkish Women’s 1st Football League participated voluntarily. In order to measure athlete’s aerobic capacity, Yo-Yo intermittent recovery test (Yo-Yo IR1) was applied and maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) values were estimated by using running distances obtained from the test results. …”
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Leveraging the Chain on Goals Model in Football: Applications for Attack and Defensive Play by Blanca De-la-Cruz-Torres, Miguel Navarro-Castro, Anselmo Ruiz-de-Alarcón-Quintero

“…Additionally, it introduces four practical concepts to better understand player and team performance in Spain’s professional football leagues. Method: Data for the 2023/24 season were collected from Football Reference, covering both men’s (LaLiga) and women’s (LigaF) leagues. …”
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