Possession tactics in the UEFA women’s EURO 2022 soccer tournament

Peter O’Donoghue and Saffron Beckley

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2023, vol. 23, issue 1, 48-64

Abstract: The purpose of the current investigation was to compare different types of possession between the 8 quarter-finalists at the Euro 2022 soccer tournament and the 8 teams eliminated at the group stage, as well as compare the percentage of possessions leading to shots between different types of possession. Possessions were classified as having a slow pass rate if there were fewer than 1 pass played per 3s on average, otherwise they had a higher pass rate. Quarter-finalists had a significantly greater number of possessions of 9 passes or more with a slow pass rate than teams eliminated at the group stage (p = 0.028), and they created shots from a significantly greater percentage of these (p = 0.007). Possession type had a significant influence on the percentage of possessions leading to a shot (p

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2023.2206273

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