The book is an edited collection of papers presented at the 5th World Congress on Science and Football. It represents the latest scientific research into the variety of sports known as football/soccer. These include the games of Association football, the rugby codes (Union and League), the national codes (American, Australian and Gaelic). The overall purpose is to bridge the gap between theory and practice related to these football games. Contributions are from leading international experts in the fields, coming together to report their latest findings and raise awareness of current issues...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Congress on Sports Science Research and Technology Support, icSPORTS 2013, Held in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, in September 2013. The 7 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The papers highlight the benefits of kinds of technologies for sports, either in general, or regarding particular cases of application.

This book constitutes thoroughly revised and selected papers from the Second International Congress on Sports Science Research and Technology Support, icSPORTS 2014, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2014.

The 8 thoroughly revised and extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from originally 131 submissions.

This book contains extended and revised versions of selected papers from the Third International Congress on Sports Science Research and Technology Support, icSPORTS 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2015.

The 9 thoroughly revised and extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from originally 93 submissions. The papers cover topics in the following main areas: signal processing and motor behavior; sports medicine and support technology; health, sports performance and support technology; and computer systems in sports.