Appealing to a wide audience, this groundbreaking handbook takes an in-depth look at soccer match analysis, highlighting the latest in match analysis research and the innovative technologies being used more and more by professional soccer clubs around the world. Bridging the gap between research, theory and practice the documented methods can be used by coaches, sport scientists and fitness coaches to gather valuable information on: * individual and team performances * styles of play, technical ability and physical fitness * how to supply objective feedback to players * developing specific training routines * available notation software, video analysis and manual systems * current academic research in soccer notational analysis. This is the first of its kind to focus entirely on the game of soccer and is written using the extensive experience in academic and professional match analysis of Chris Carling. He writes from a coaching point of view, but combines the scientific 'feel' with what the coaches really want to know.