Aggregated Rankings of Top Leagues’ Football Teams: Application and Comparison of Different Ranking Methods by László Gyarmati, Éva Orbán-Mihálykó, Csaba Mihálykó, Ágnes Vathy-Fogarassy

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Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in the New Life With COVID-19: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study in Japan Rugby Top League Players by Yasutaka Ojio, Asami Matsunaga, Shin Kawamura, Masanori Horiguchi, Goro Yoshitani, Kensuke Hatakeyama, Rei Amemiya, Ayako Kanie, Chiyo Fujii

“…Objectives: The primary objective is to compare the prevalence of mental health problems, including psychological distress, anxiety and depressive symptoms in Japan Rugby Top League players in the new life with COVID-19 with those evaluated before COVID-19.Methods: An observational comparative web-based cross-sectional study was employed for Japan Rugby Top League players. …”
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Influence of the Team Value of Professional Football Clubs on Their Success in Sports by Warias Roman, Block Sebastian

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Models of speed development in soccer by ROKSANA KROSTA, MIŁOSZ DROZD, ROBERT GÓRALCZYK, MACIEJ KOSTRZEWA, PATRICIA FISCHEROVA, ANGELINA IGNATIEVA

“…Background: ‪The main objective of this research was to determine a model of the Speed Abilities Development Index (SADI) in selected teams of the top league, the first and the second league in Poland. …”

Comparative analysis of indexes of physical preparedness of footballers of professional commands of different level by Shalenko V.V., Pertsukhov A.A.

“…The article presents indices of physical preparedness of footballers of different playing roles of the top league teams of Ukrainian championship and first league of Ukrainian team championship. …”
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“Forceful links make strong chains” – When using on-pitch challenges to develop team resilience in elite football by Ole Erik Grinde, Vegard Fusche Moe

“…We followed players and coaches during a season in the top league. The aim was to study how group structures influence coordinated activities and perceived support to players in different roles handling challenging situations, while developing team resilience in professional football. …”
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Staying in or Dropping Out of Elite Women's Football—Factors of Importance by Ingrid Amalie Hoftun Bjerksæter, Pål Arild Lagestad

“…The results of the study show that the same factors affecting the early end of a career, also had an impact on continuing the career in the Norwegian top league, beyond the average age. A low level of internal and external motivation, poor financial circumstances, high stress load, long injury breaks, lack of playing time and other priorities, are all factors leading elite players to end their football careers at a young age. …”
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Higher Education and Athlete’s Second Career by Adam Metelski

“…It turns out that those players who played in the top league finished their sports careers later and thus earned longer on basketball. …”
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Motives of labour migrations of foreign elite athletes to Polish table tennis clubs by Lenartowicz Michał, Ciok Anna

“…In-depth interviews were carried out with 27 foreign table tennis players from 10 countries, who were playing for two top league clubs in Poland, and with 8 club coaches who were working with foreign players. …”
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Prosocial and antisocial behaviors in Turkish female and male football players by Kürşat ACAR, Hakkı MOR, Fatih KARAKAŞ, Ali Kerim YILMAZ, Cansel ARSLANOGLU, Ahmet MOR

“…Among all the league statuses, both female and male players exhibited the highest prosocial and the lowest antisocial behaviors in the top league status. Additionally, there were statistically significant differences concerning the age variable (p < 0.05). …”
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The Republic of Türkiye on the Eve of the Centenary: The Era of R.T. Erdogan by Vladimir A. Avatkov, Alina I. Sbitneva

“…Modern Ankara is approaching an important milestone in its history as an independent regional power and a leader who holds a confident course towards joining the “top league” - a group of world actors-members of the UN Security Council. …”
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Health problems occurring in national-level female soccer players are different between leagues and throughout the season: a 6-month prospective cohort study by Jörg Spörri, Johannes Scherr, Stefan Fröhlich, Nora Wieloch, Anna Dettwiler, Florian Imhoff

“…Female players in the 2nd and 3rd highest national leagues showed more gradual onset injuries (p&lt;0.001) and fewer illnesses than those in the top league (p&lt;0.05). At the same time, there were no league-specific differences in sudden onset injuries. …”
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An analysis of transition-resulted goal scoring patterns in football leagues: a comparison of the first 5 rounds and the last 5 rounds prior midway of the season by Pedro Eusebio, Pablo Prieto-González, Rui Marcelino

“…Methodology: The sample comprises 702 football games, categorized into three league groups: Top Leagues, Marginal Leagues, and Emerging Leagues. …”
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Sports Marketing and Conceptual Evolution: A Bibliometric Analysis by Suraj Kushe Shekhar, Mohd Asif Shah

“…More cooperation between continents is required to take advantage of sports marketing tactics around the world as there are numerous top leagues taking place in sports like football, cricket, and so on. …”
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Elite coaches’ approach to quantifying technical actions and relative participation in volleyball players’ performance by Carlos López-Serrano, M. Perla Moreno, Daniel Mon-López, Juan José Molina-Martín

“…Twenty elite coaches with at least three years of experience in national teams or top leagues participated in the study. Variables considered in the study were analysed using descriptive statistics and reliability was measured with Cronbach’s α and McDonald’s Omega coefficients (> .70). …”
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Point Score Systems and Cooperative Incentives: The 3-1-0 Curse by Kjetil K. Haugen, Knut P. Heen

“…The empirical analysis is based on a sample of 25 European top leagues with 823 played matches in the 2017 and 2016/17 seasons. …”
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The effects of participation in European competitions on the domestic competitiveness of Polish football clubs by Szczepan Kościółek

“…This study demonstrates to sports managers that, contrary to common belief, engaging limited resources of football clubs outside the top leagues to compete in two competitions simultaneously has neutral effect. …”
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Labour-Capital Relations in Professional Football: A Qualitative Research on the Phenomenon of Wage, Social Security and Labour Union in Lower Leagues by Muazzez Şaşmaz Ataçocuğu, Mert Kerem Zelyurt

“…According to conclusions of the study it was found that: Subjects who are playing in third league express that they earn lower wage in comparison to top leagues, they assert that contracts which they signed don’t overlap the money they agreed with managers and labour union is a necessity in sub professional leagues -especially in order to defend workers’ rights of football players in third league-. …”
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The presentation a structural model for predicting job burnout in professional football referees of iran based on big five personality factors mediated by self-esteem by Hamidreza Shams Ravandi, Hasanpasha Sharifi, Hamzeh Ganji

“…The statistical population of this study included all male and female referees active in the top leagues and the first division of football and futsal in the country in 2019, including 341 people (229 male referees and 112 female referees). …”
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No Fans–No Pressure: Referees in Professional Football During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Michael Christian Leitner, Michael Christian Leitner, Fabio Richlan, Fabio Richlan

“…A total of 1286 matches–played in the top leagues of Spain, England, Germany, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Austria and the Czech Republic–were analyzed for results, fouls, bookings and reasons for bookings and contrasted between respective matchdays of season 2018/19 (regular attendance) and season 2019/20 (ghost games). …”
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