Table 1

Search terms used in the review by area and using the Boolean method

AreaFieldsTerms
PopulationTitle(soccer OR football) AND (elite* OR professional* OR association) NOT “Australian Rules Football” NOT “Australian Football League” NOT “American Football” NOT “National Football League” NOT “Gaelic Football” NOT rugby NOT basketball NOT handball NOT volleyball NOT indoor NOT former NOT retired* NOT referee* NOT amateur* NOT academ* NOT youth NOT junior* NOT young* NOT colleg* NOT adolescent* NOT universit* NOT under-1? NOT female* NOT wom?n) AND
Intervention/comparisonTitle, abstract and keyword, or topic(intervention* OR decision* OR instruction* OR formation* OR strateg* OR substitut* OR program* OR change* OR constraint* OR method* OR practice* OR training OR coach* OR adjust* OR condition* OR protocol* OR load* OR warm-up* OR exercise* OR position* OR prevention* OR preparation* OR context* OR situation* OR half* OR halves OR match* OR game*) AND
OutcomeTitle, abstract and keyword, or topic(outcome* OR winn* OR win OR won OR lose OR loss OR losing OR victor* OR odds OR expect* OR probabili* OR result* OR success OR discriminat* OR score* OR action* OR metric* OR indicator* OR statistic* OR factor* OR rank* OR stand* OR goal* OR points OR performance* OR effect*) AND
Study designTitle, abstract and keyword, or topic(“notational analysis” OR “performance analysis” OR “match analysis” OR “game analysis” OR observation* OR cross-sectional OR Cohort OR case-control OR longitudinal* OR analytics OR “machine learning” OR predict* OR classif*) NOT review NOT “meta-analysis” NOT synthesis NOT experimental
  • Double quotation denotes searching for the term exactly as in parentheses. ‘?’ marks multiple characters that generate different words and require at least four characters before.

  • *Indicates that the term can have different endings.