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September 10, 2025BMC Sports Science Medicine and RehabilitationOpen Access

Positional relative age effect in europe’s top ten football leagues

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MIMücahit IşıkMYMehmet YavuzODOsman Dişçeken

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Analysis of relative age effect in professional male footballers across UEFA's top leagues, highlighting variations by position and league.

Key Points

  • The relative age effect is evident among professional footballers in UEFA's top leagues, impacting all positions.
  • Players born in the first quartile represent 30.3%, significantly higher than those born in the fourth quartile at 20.5%.
  • Assessment of 5,238 players shows positional variations, particularly pronounced among goalkeepers and defenders in multiple leagues.
  • The findings support that the relative age effect is persistent and varies significantly across different league contexts.

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Işık et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c1dda254b1d3bfb60fc7bchttps://doi.org/10.1186/s13102-025-01312-1
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