Sensors for Performance Analysis in Team Sports: Second Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2026 | Viewed by 867
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sports science; sport performance; sport training; elite sport; physical education; complex system; collective behaviour
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Interests: sports science; medicine and rehabilitation
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Interests: entropy; kinematics; training; sport biomechanics; sports science; exercise physiology; exercise performance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the second edition of this Special Issue. You can view the original Special Issue here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/C9R20EEY34. In recent years, performance analysis in team sports has focused on the quest for reliable information that will help optimise the training process and, ultimately, the competitive outcome. With this in mind, technology has been used to monitor and control the physical and physiological demands of players in both training and competition. Similarly, players’ technical actions and movement patterns have been analysed to provide a holistic perspective of performance. However, technological development is an ongoing and systematic process that produces new sensors almost daily to collect data, advanced metrics to analyse information, and powerful visualisation techniques to display information. This results in a huge untapped potential for improving sports performance. This Special Issue will offer a review of the existing literature, focusing on studies that address the use of sensors to measure team sport performance and the influence of lifestyle habits on player performance.
All types of studies will be considered, including original research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, validation studies, and conceptual articles.
Potential topics to be covered include the following:
- The tracking of player movement patterns (e.g., sensors that track player position in both training and competition);
- Analyses of technical and tactical behaviour in team sports using sensors (e.g., approaches for tracking and interpreting player performance);
- Sensors that enable the tracking of physical and physiological performance in team sports (e.g., systems that track players’ external and internal load);
- Wearable sensors that capture health-related variables (e.g., heart rate, blood, sweat, and interstitial fluid);
- Biomechanical sensors that analyse movement in team sports (e.g., motion analysis);
- Original studies using sensors to compare player behaviour in team sports (e.g., use of sensors to compare player performance under different conditions during training or competition);
- Validation studies investigating new sensors for performance analysis (e.g., validation of systems for recording player behaviour);
- Statements and reviews synthesising expert knowledge (e.g., conceptual papers, systematic reviews).
Dr. Bruno Gonçalves
Dr. Diogo Alexandre Martins Coutinho
Dr. Bruno Emanuel Nogueira Figueira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- technical and tactical behaviour
- physical and physiological analysis
- movement patterns
- talent identification technology
- training and game monitoring
- wearable sensors
- motion analysis
- motion tracking
- sensor validation
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