摘要：The paper provides the results of the studies on the effect of deprivation of sleep on women soccer players. Deprivation of sleep is expected to disturb the rhythm affecting performance and skill ability of a soccer player, who generally do not have proper sleep in the previous night of the day of competition due to tension and anxiety. Keeping this in view, present studies were conducted to assess the effects of sleep deprivation on kicking ability and dribbling ability of women soccer players. 20 healthy women soccer players from LNUPE, Gwalior were selected for the study who were subjected to test for 30 yards dribbling and distance covered by kicking both after a sound sleep and no sleep at previous night of the test. Data were compared by 't' test. Details of the methods and subjects are provided and results are discussed. The results indicated that sleep deprivation caused significant deterioration in both dribbling and kicking ability.
