Why Use A Football GPS Tracker?

An invaluable metric for insight into the work put in over the session, especially when paired with other metrics too! Total distance is a handy metric to track players' training load throughout the week, helping assess stamina, recovery and fatigue.

The better leg conditioning players do, the greater the results should be on match day. When football coaches vary a player’s running during the week’s training, a football gps tracker is used to track this activity and ultimately reveal who has the stamina to keep going the longest.

Providing a measure of a football player’s overall physical activity during a match or training, total active time includes running, walking, and sprinting, as well as any other physical activity such as jumping or tackling.

Tracking and measuring work rate is crucial for a player’s fitness level, workload management, performance analysis and tactical analysis. When reviewed with other key metrics, such as high speed running, coaches can accurately analyse how active players are and organise training plans for individual players or groups.

Football GPS trackers make it super easy to track this crucial metric. Knowing who is the fastest on your team and how your players compare is key to gaining that competitive edge and enhancing overall team performance.

Speed matters! Be it for breakaways, counter-attacks, chasing opponents, closing down space and general overall performance, top speed can provide inspiration for new tactics. Players with a high top speed are likely to be more explosive and agile, which can help them perform better in many areas of the game.

Also known as intensity, this metric helps players get match ready during training. Football GPS tracker vests help monitor and analyse data across different types of exercise, be it running, jogging or walking, including how long is spent on each.

A lot of the training sessions can be spent walking or standing still, that’s why coaches are loving our ‘custom speed zones’. This tracks player intensity and the total amount of high speed running in a session, and can be fully customised for each player based on their current fitness level, age and ability.

Football is a start-stop sport - free kicks, corners, throw-ins, substitutions, etc. - these breaks in play can provide opportunities to players who are quick off the mark and can stop quickly over short distances.

Proper acceleration and deceleration techniques are critical components of a football player's physical abilities. By developing these skills, players can improve their performance, reduce the risk of injury such as ankle sprains and knee ligament injuries, and enhance their overall contribution to the team.

With player heatmaps, coaches can quickly and easily visualise where their team and its individual athletes have spent the most time during a match. PlayerData football GPS trackers provide coaches with essential post game analysis data to reflect on the tactical approach used.

Athlete intensity maps provides insight into where and when a player has sprinted during the game, giving coaches and athletes the key data required to improve attacking intensity and identify areas of success.

Football GPS trackers can help injury prevention by providing data on a player's physical performance, such as their running speed, distance covered, and acceleration and deceleration frequency. This data can be used to monitor the workload and fatigue levels of the players, which can help coaches and medical staff to adjust training programs and manage player's physical exertion, to avoid overtraining or injury.

There are many key factors to producing great results and success - ultimately though, you need your best players fit and in the game for as long as possible.

Whatever role you play within your club, our surveys provide extra insight into a player's wellbeing that isn't easily captured elsewhere. Quick and easy for the athletes, they just need to click the push notification to fill out their answers.

With player wellness surveys, you can measure athletes' perceived effort of the session; whether they had a sufficient night's rest, if there are external factors needing to be taken into account when setting your next session, or selecting players for your next match.