Reliability and validity of field-based fitness tests in youth soccer players |
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| Authors: | James H Dugdale Calum A Arthur Dajo Sanders Angus M Hunter |
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| Institution: | Physiology Exercise and Nutrition Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK |
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| Abstract: | This study aimed to establish between-day reliability and validity of commonly used field-based fitness tests in youth soccer players of varied age and playing standards, and to discriminate between players without (“unidentified”) or with (“identified”) a direct route to professional football through their existing club pathway. Three-hundred-and-seventy-three Scottish youth soccer players (U11–U17) from three different playing standards (amateur, development, performance) completed a battery of commonly used generic field-based fitness tests (grip dynamometry, standing broad jump, countermovement vertical jump, 505 (505COD) and T-Drill (T-Test) change of direction and 10/20 m sprint tests) on two separate occasions within 7–14?days. The majority of field-based fitness tests selected within this study proved to be reliable measures of physical performance (ICC?=?0.83–0.97; p?p?2 (7)?=?101.646, p?
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| Keywords: | Selection performance discriminate profiling adolescent development |
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