摘要：The aimof this investigation was to evaluate an overall performance of the elitewomen football players. In accordance with this purpose, 11 women footballplayers (age: 21,5 ± 2,58 years; height: 160,8 ± 5,17 cm; weight: 55,8 ± 7,23kg) who plays in Turkish Women’s 1st Football League participatedvoluntarily. In order to measure athlete’s aerobic capacity, Yo-Yo intermittecovery test (Yo-Yo IR1) was applied and maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) values were estimated byusing running distances obtained from the test results. The Wingate anaerobicpower test (WanT) to measure the athlete's anaerobic properties, the verticaljump (VJ) and standing long jump (SLJ) tests to determine explosive power, theIllinois agility test to measure agility skills, 10 and 30 meters sprint runsto measure sprint performances, hand grip and back-leg strength tests tomeasure strength characteristics were used. In order to obtain power and velocityparameters, loaded-squat jump (SJLoaded) was applied with an resistancethat equaled to 40% of body weight and bench throw (BT) was applied with an resistancethat equaled to 30% of body weight of the participants by applying anisoinertial device and results of peak power (PP), peak velocity (PV), meanpropulsive power (MPP), and mean propulsive velocity (MPV) during bothmovements were recorded. Statistical analysis was used in the assessmentof the data. According to analysis results, it was achieved that Yo-Yo IR1running distances was as 676,3 ± 156,4 meters, whileVO2max values of athletes were estimated as 42,2 ± 1,20 ml/kg-1/min-1.Relative and absolute anaerobic power values for elite women football playerswere obtained as 439,7 (± 61,18 W) and 8,04 (± 1,09 W/kg) for maximal anaerobicpower, 316,1 (± 34,46 W) and 5,78 (± 0,56 W/kg) for maximal anaerobic capacity,193,6 (±22,30 W) and 3,55 (± 0,61 W/kg) for minimal anaerobic power, respectively.In addition, fatigue index values measured as 55,7 (± 3,75 %). Participant’sright and left hand grip strength values were obtained as 30,6 (± 4,62 kg) and29,6 (± 4,5 kg), back and leg strength values measured as 90,2 (± 18,7 kg) and101,8 (± 29,5 kg), respectively. Participant’s 10 and 30 meters sprint durationwere obtained as 1,85 (± 0,12 sec) and 4,96 (± 0,34 sec). SLJ, VJ and agilityvalues were obtained as 178,4 (± 21,1 cm), 35,7 (± 4,60 cm) and 17,6 (±0,67sec), respectively. Velocity and power values for athletes during BT movementwere obtained as 1,21 (± 0,10 m/sec) for MPV, 2,04 (± 0,18 m/sec) for PV, 353,6(± 83,2 W) for MPP and 666,3 (± 152,1 W) for PP. In response to this, velocityand power values for athletes during SJLoaded movement were obtainedas 1,21 (±,10 m/sec) for MPV, 2,04 (± ,18 m/sec) for PV, 353,6 (± 83,2 W) forMPP and 666,3 (± 152,1 W) for PP. As a result, although thereare many studies on physical or physiological characteristics of elite malefootballers, the literature on the overall performance characteristics of womenfootball players are limited. It is thought that the results obtained areimportant to fill this lack in the literature and will be the reference sourcefor future research.
