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Article

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

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1.6 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS IN SPORT

Volume 18, 2018 - Issue 5

Abstract

Over 2000 Gaelic Football clubs compete annually for the honour of playing in the All-Ireland club finals in Croke Park in front of up to 30,000 people. There are no published performance data for club level Gaelic football, despite evidence of considerable performance analysis activity. This study aims to establish benchmark profiles for Senior, Intermediate and Junior grade club Gaelic football and investigate which variables are most closely associated with winning.

Data from all tiers of the Ulster club football championship of 2015 and 2016 (n = 48) were analysed using a range of validated operational definitions measuring 17 variables. Differences between winning and losing performance were tested using a Mann-Whitney U test.

Across all grades, six variables proved significant (p < 0.05), three were directly related to scoring (points, number of scores and total score), the others related to the effective use of possession (possession: scores ratio; turnover rate and productivity (scores per possession)). Several others are specific to certain grades, and are directly linked to successful performance at that level.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/24748668.2018.1517291

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