Discriminant analysis of physical performance variability in European international Tier 2 rugby union: insights from location-based GPS analysis

Angel Lino-Samaniego, Julio Calleja-González, Adrián Martín-Castellanos, Sergio Guerrero-Esteban, Ignacio Refoyo Roman and Diego Muriarte Solana

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2025, vol. 25, issue 5, 931-945

Abstract: This study analysed the physical demands of international Tier 2 rugby union through GPS® technology to extract performance data during official matches of the Rugby European Championship between 2019 and 2022. Besides, the data were used to identify the external load variables that differentiate between home and away games using discriminant analysis. Fifty-five professional male rugby union players from the Spanish national rugby team participated, contributing 210 valid GPS® files through Catapult® Vector S7 GPS® devices recording speed, acceleration, and workload variables. The results revealed that away matches presented higher values in all the statistically significant (p

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2025.2468615

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