Examination of the season performance of a football team in first division

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to examination the performance of the league football team which takes part in T.F.F Bank Asya 1.League during 32 weeks of ongoing league in terms of different variables. The data used in this study was obtained from the national TV channel publishing competitions, daily published national sport newspapers and the official website of Turkish Football Federation. All the data obtained in this study was recorded in SPSS program and interpreted by calculating frequency and percentage values.

The distribution in the form of 15 minute periods of the goals scored and conceded in internal field and external field, the distribution according to time periods of the goals scored and conceded according to stroke techniques.

28 different football players the mean age of 25.03±3.59 years worked in 32 league matches of Boluspor. While 47 goals were scored in total with an average of 1.47 goals per game, 31 goals were conceded with an average of 0.96 goals. When the period in competitions was taken into consideration, Boluspor reached 55.3% (26 goals) of 47 the goals scored in the second half-time of competitions and 25.5% (12goals) of goals between 76-90 minutes, saw 32.27 % (10goals) of the goals conceded between 61-75 minutes in its goalpost. In the first half-time of the season 30 goals(63.82%) were scored with an average of 1.88 goals per match, in second half-time of the season an extremely important performance decrease was seen and only 17 goals (36.18%) were scored with an average of 1.06 goals per match. In the first half-time of the league 20 goals (64.5%) were conceded with an average of 1.25 goals, in the second half-time of the league 11 goals (34.5%) were conceded with an average of 0.69 goals.

As a result, performance indicators revealed by competition analysis done with the correct data according to certain criteria are considered to provide a significant contribution to the decision making process of coaches, since league marathon is a long period, being in the highest level of physic, condition and concentration in every moment of competitions is related to season performance of the teams and it is thought that necessary training season should be planned accordingly.