Women’s intense running distance up 15-30% in four yearsSame change found in
Premier League from 2006 to 2013Research into the 2019 Women’s
World Cup has outlined the huge physical evolution of the game. The changes found by researchers in the space of four years matched those in a study of Premier League players across seven seasons from 2006.
A 169-page physical analysis report produced by Dr Paul Bradley, a reader in sports performance at
Liverpool John Moores University and a consultant for
Barcelona, and England’s physical performance manager, Dawn Scott, found more distance was completed at much higher speeds in 2019 than at the 2015 World Cup in
Canada. Bradley, in a
FIFA webinar to launch the report, also made a comparison with the Premier League.