About the Authors

Naomi Myhill

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

n.myhill@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Affiliations Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom, The Football Association, Burton Upon Trent, United Kingdom

Dan Weaving

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom

Nick Dalton Barron

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Prevent Biometrics, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Andy Hudson

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation The Football Association, Burton Upon Trent, United Kingdom

Steve Barrett

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliation Playermaker, London, United Kingdom

Stacey Emmonds

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom, The Football Association, Burton Upon Trent, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The fifth author of this study is employed by the company who provided the foot-mounted IMUs used to collect players’ locomotor activity data. Despite this, and to remove the potential for bias, the fifth author was not involved in any statistical analysis or data interpretation conducted during the investigation.