International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport

2001 - 2026

Current editor(s): Peter O'Donoghue

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Volume 26, issue 4, 2026

Evidence for the reversal of the relative age effect in European professional basketball pp. 667-685

Yasin Akinci and Ahmet Yapar

Evolution of playing styles in UEFA European championships: trends from 2012 to 2024 pp. 686-701

Wenkang Peng, João Ribeiro, Mingjie Wang and Miguel Ángel Gómez

Performance norms and tactical differences in international netball pp. 702-717

Gemma L. Davies and Lauren E. N. Webb

Difference in change of direction performance between college basketball players with high and low change of direction deficit, shuffle, and jump asymmetry pp. 718-732

Peng Wang, Jiechun Wang, Chris Bishop and Mengde Lyu

Comparison between GPS “Wimu” and video tracking “Golstats” to quantify match running performance in the Liga MX football pp. 733-748

Aldo A. Vasquez-Bonilla, Gonçalo Rendeiro-Pinho, Oscar Tojo, Paul D. Balsom and Luis Enrique Carranza-García

How different weekly game loads affect performance in elite women’s EuroLeague basketball pp. 749-761

Lorenzo Gasperi, Xing Wang, Miguel-Ángel Gómez, Edson Filho, Jaime Sampaio and Bingnan Gong

A spatial analysis of ball recovery locations, ball recovery methods and eventual possession outcomes in elite women’s football using a Bayesian network approach pp. 762-777

Mikael Jamil, Christopher McElduff, Lucas Adshead, Joseph Welsh, Adnane Ez-zizi and Marco Beato

Associations between individual and balanced team performance and soccer match outcomes pp. 778-795

James Ball, Minh Huynh and Matthew C. Varley

The association between sports-specific testing and in-game performance indicators in young male water polo players pp. 796-811

Marcell Fridvalszki, János Matlák, Levente Rácz, Zsófia Tróznai, Dorina Annár, Katinka Utczás and Leonidas Petridis

Technical and artistic performance of elite women’s pairs in acrobatic gymnastics pp. 812-831

Artur Azevedo, Rochelle Rocha Costa, Sarah Arns, Jonatas B. de Jesus, Hugo Ribeiro and Leonardo Lamas

Key performance indicators for success in decisive NBA playoff games: a 10-year analysis of game-7 outcomes pp. 832-846

Feng Li, Feng Jiang, Pierpaolo Sansone, Paul B. Gastin and Miguel-Angel Gomez

Shorter follow-through is associated with greater accuracy: a kinematic analysis of the tennis forehand in youth athletes pp. 847-856

Ricardo Muller Bottura, Vittoria Ferrando, Federico Placidilli, Piero Ruggeri, Emanuela Faelli and Ambra Bisio

Acute effect of mechanical vibration on sprint performance in mountain bike athletes pp. 857-868

Rauno Álvaro de Paula Simola, Pedro Augusto Santos Almeida, Sandro Fernandes da Silva, André Scotti Rabelo and Reginaldo Gonçalves

Match-play dynamics in youth padel: sex differences in rally length, final shot effectiveness, and net exchanges across U14, U16 and U18 categories pp. 869-884

Adrián Escudero-Tena, Rafael Conde-Ripoll, Carlos D. Gómez-Carmona and Iván Martín-Miguel

The influence of age category and relative age on match running performance at the men’s U17 and U20 World Cups pp. 885-899

Abdullah Kilci, Muhammed Emin Koç, Alper Tunga Peker, Alexander B. T. McAuley, Hülya Binokay and Adam L. Kelly

The long-term effects of Current false Start rules on reaction time and athletic performance pp. 900-919

Lingyun Han, Chuanshun Zhou and Hui Zhang

Volume 26, issue 3, 2026

Tactical performance in youth football: the influence of sex, age and playing position pp. 463-477

Mitchell Searston, Christopher Joyce and Mikayla Lyons

Internal and external training and match load quantification during in-season and pre-season in professional highly trained male team handball players pp. 478-491

Phillip Aae Tandrup Holm and Morten B. Randers

Tied, leading, or trailing: how do extra-lightweight judokas adjust their attacks to secure victory? pp. 492-508

Ming-Yen Tsai and Yin-Hua Chen

Off-ball movement in football: evidence on the relationship between team strength, performance, success and runs in behind pp. 509-524

Thomas Thönnessen, Daniel Memmert, Dominik Mews and Fabian Wunderlich

In-game physical performance and maturity status in youth futsal: implications for national team development program selection process pp. 525-540

Jorge Arede, João Ribeiro, António Ferraz, Bruno Travassos, Hugo Sarmento, Sérgio Adriano Gomes and Nuno Leite

Gender disparities in match performance at FIFA World Cups: more direct play, less off-ball movement, and less pressing in women’s matches pp. 541-556

Wonwoo Ju, Bochan Kim, Jaehong Lee and Sung-Hwan Choi

Modelling the effect of competition tier on player involvement and impact in Australian Football pp. 557-571

Dave Matteo, David L. Carey, Joshua D. Ruddy and Matthew C. Varley

Ageing trajectories in football: insights from the Chinese Super League on positional performance dynamics pp. 572-585

Jun Cao, Changjing Zhou, Fei Liu, Wei Zhang, Miguel-Ángel Gómez and Enrique Ortega-Toro

Understanding age-based kinetic and kinematic variations in taekwondo’s spinning heel kick pp. 586-605

Michael Prock, David Michael O’Sullivan and Siddhartha Bikram Panday

Sudden increases in weekly external workload are related to muscle-tendon injuries in professional male football players pp. 606-618

J. Raya-González, J. L. Hernández-Davó, F. Agullo, A. Soler, J. Del Coso and V. Moreno-Perez

Do contextual factors cause differences in passing performance between men and women? A network metrics analysis of the 2022 men’s and 2023 women’s FIFA World Cups using mixed linear models pp. 619-640

Li Xiao, Cai Xiangyu, Gao Song, Daniel Carrilho, Filipe Manuel Clemente, Han Bo and Duarte Araújo

Does the most demanding passage reflect peak physical demand in football? A machine learning-based comparison with the extremely demanding passage pp. 641-656

Zunqi Niu, Iyán Iván-Baragaño, Zhaoyang Wang and Hongyou Liu

Jump performance progression in Spanish male and female elite high and long jumpers pp. 657-666

Pablo Rodríguez–Gómez, César Gallo–Salazar and Juan José Salinero

Volume 26, issue 2, 2026

Close the gap: contextual influences on defensive dispersion in rugby league pp. 237-249

Neil Collins, Thomas Sawczuk, Sarah Whitehead and Ben Jones

Kinematic and muscle activity patterns of maximal ice hockey skating acceleration pp. 250-265

Sami Kaartinen, Paavo Vartiainen, Mika Venojärvi, Heikki Tikkanen and Lauri Stenroth

Career patterns within men’s and women’s soccer talent systems: the typical pathway to the top is atypical pp. 266-282

Jan Verbeek, A. Susan M. Niessen, Steffie Van Der Steen, Nico W. Van Yperen and Ruud J. R. Den Hartigh

The effect of the Super Shot on team technical and tactical performance indicators in Suncorp Super Netball pp. 283-295

Lucas Brown, Luke Hogarth, Rob Buhmann and Mark Sayers

Expert amateur Irish boxing coaches’ perceptions of the technical components of straight punches pp. 296-309

Raph Britton, Michael Hanlon, Robin Healy, Kris Beattie, Gregory Tierney and Richard Bolger

The impact of varying small-sided games’ pitch sizes on replicating official match physical demands during effective playing time in male professional soccer players pp. 310-327

Risto-Matti Toivonen, Timo Rantalainen and Simon Walker

Shared benefits for Rugby Union and Rugby Union sevens players: a comparative analyses of performance indicators pp. 328-339

Bert Moolman, Retief Broodryk and Pieter Hendrik Van den Berg

Position-specific fielding instances and utilisation in professional men’s T20 cricket pp. 340-353

Tyson Albert Lee, Andrew Roman Novak and Elizabeth Claire Pickering Rodriguez

Analysis of team timeouts in high-performance futsal matches: when to call and what to expect? pp. 354-365

Vitor Lovato and Júlia Barreira

Predicting and understanding shooting performance in professional biathlon: a Bayesian approach pp. 366-385

Manuele Leonelli

Impact of a congested schedule and player participation on the external workload of top-level soccer players during a competitive season pp. 386-398

Rodrigo dos Santos Guimarães, Tomás García-Calvo, David Lobo-Triviño, Jose Carlos Ponce-Bordón and Javier Raya-González

Analysis of the differences in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup according to match outcome and confederation of origin pp. 399-413

Sofía López-Araya, Braulio Sánchez-Ureña, Miguel Ángel Gómez-Ruano and Sergio José Ibáñez

Specificity of curvilinear sprint performance in youth female soccer players: comparison with linear sprint and relationship with vertical jumps pp. 414-432

Matic Sašek, Darjan Smajla, Kaja Bratina and Darjan Spudić

Tactical performance of an Australian A-League association football team: comparing spatiotemporal data between different phases of play in matches pp. 433-446

Darryl E. Hands, Jade O’Brien-Smith, Xanne A. K. Janse de Jonge, G. C. Livingston and Nattai R. Borges

Association between LPS data and accelerometer-based metrics: breaking antennas dependency for external load monitoring in women’s handball pp. 447-461

Carlos García-Sánchez, Raúl Nieto-Acevedo, Carlos Martínez-Rubio, Moisés Marquina, Rafael Manuel Navarro and Alfonso de la Rubia

Volume 26, issue 1, 2026

Match characteristics of women’s and men’s singles and doubles events in elite badminton pp. 1-18

Daniel Hoffmann, Michel Brinkschulte and Tobias Vogt

Analysis of team success based on technical match-play performance in the Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) competition pp. 19-36

Braedan van der Vegt, Adrian Gepp, Justin Keogh and Jessica B. Farley

An application of clustering to classify movement patterns in men’s professional grand slam hard court tennis pp. 37-49

Cameron Armstrong, Peter Peeling, Alistair Murphy and Machar Reid

Injury rates and mechanisms of starting and replacement players pp. 50-60

Leah Bitchell, Gemma Robinson, Victoria H. Stiles, Prabhat Mathema and Isabel S. Moore

Playing position, height, weight, and preferred throwing arm do not differentiate between more and less effective 7- metre throwers at the highest level of international handball pp. 61-70

Aron Laxdal and Tommy Haugen

Predictors of goal difference and match outcome in Polish handball PGNiG Superleague in the season before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic - regression analysis pp. 71-86

Paweł Krawczyk, Jan Gajewski, Jan Labiński, Mateusz Szczerba, Maksymilian Smoliński, Sławomir Bodasiński and Michał Sieńko

Analysis of performance in English women’s domestic Twenty20 cricket pp. 87-104

Georgia Haworth and Stuart Mills

The influence of situational constraints on in-game penalty kicks in soccer pp. 105-117

R. van Hemert, J. van der Kamp and E. Hartman

“What are we looking at?”: the development and implementation of a performance analysis framework for netball umpires pp. 118-141

Alastair Pearson, Tom Webb, Christina Barrow, Gemma Milligan and Matt Miller-Dicks

The psychological (ab)use of timeouts in professional tennis pp. 142-160

Liam P. Blything and Ryan Blything

Elite professional football players' perceptions and preferences of pre-match meeting delivery pp. 161-176

Paul Travis and Andrew Butterworth

An examination of how fielding outcomes in international and franchise T20 and 50-over cricket are associated with bowling performances and field positions pp. 177-192

Mikael Jamil, Simon Manthorpe, Danielle MacDonald and Adnane Ez-Zizi

Interchangeability of the Polar Team Pro system in determining match load and intensities in semi-professional rugby union players pp. 193-205

Jacobus J. Oosthuizen, Martinique Sparks, Christo A. Bisschoff, Marike Cockeran and Ermanno Rampinini

A rule-based approach to classify counterpressing – analysis of its risks and relationship with rest defence pp. 206-222

Andrew Peters, Nimai Parmar, Michael Davies and Nic James

Match demands on officials and umpires across variations of lacrosse pp. 223-235

N.j Ripley, J.t Fahey and M.e Quinn