SR4S058 - Periodisation in Football: Performance and Player Development 01 Sep 2018 - 31 Aug 2029 | Version 1

Associated Module Information

Module Code: SR4S058
Module Title: Periodisation in Football: Performance and Player Development
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences and Education
Faculty Group: Sport
Faculty Sub Group: Midwifery
Module Leader: David Adams
Module Team: Melanie Tuckwell
First Intended Intake: SEP 2018 Final Year of Intake: 2023
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 20 Credit Level: 7
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100095 - sports coaching
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 1
Valid From 01 Sep 2018
Valid To 31 Aug 2029

Module Aims

With the ever increasing demands placed on industry professionals to plan and schedule training with appropriate knowledge of recovery, loading and tapering for competition, this module has been developed to ensure this understanding is framed to provide the requisite knowledge in order to prepare athletes for high performance. Similarly, this module also respects how this scheduling and specific approaches to periodisation can be applied to ensure effective transition of a player throughout a player development programme.

Content Summary

Models of peridosation

Global coaching methodologies

Periodisation for performance

Periodisation for player development

Periodsiation to develop football specific fitness components

Development of game speed

Principles of periodization

Tactical periodisation

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 24
Project supervision 20
Independent Study 80
Directed Study 76
Total Hours Selected 200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Critical analysis of approaches to periodisation for enhanced performance and player development
LO2 Demonstrate consideration of the 4 corners and how to integrate all elements within peak performance and player development
LO3 Demonstrate the associate theory to practice link in designing appropriate periodisation cycles applicable to the context

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Case study 1 Design a 6-week Meso-Cycle of Training: Consider global approaches associated to the team. You are also required to identify 3 players within your team (defensive / Midfield & Attacking) provide a Individual periodised approach associated to the players needs during that 6-week cycle. 0 N/A 100 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2 LO3
Case study 1

Reading List

Bompa, T, O., Buzzichelli, C.A (2019). Periodization: Theory and Methodology of Training. 6th Ed. Human Kinetics

Delgado-Bordonau JL and Mendez-Villanueva A. Tactical Periodization: Mourinho’s best kept secret. Soccer J 57: 29–34, 2012.

Ericson KA. How the expert performance approach differs from traditional approaches to expertise in sport. In search of a shared theoretical framework for studying expert performance. In: Expert Performance in Sports: Advances on Research on Sports Expertise. Starkes JL and Ericson KA, eds. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2003. pp. 371–402.

Ericsson KA. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. London, United Kingdom: Random House, 2016.

Morgans, R.M; Williams, M.D., Mullen R.H., & Adams, D (2015) A Comparison of Physical and Technical Match Performance of a Team Competing in the English Championship League and Then the English Premier League Following Promotion. International J of Sport Science & Coaching. 10 (4) pp. 543-550.

Morgans, R.M; Williams, M.D., Mullen R.H., & Adams, D (2014). Technical and Physical Performance over an English Championship League Season. International J of Sport Science & Coaching. 9 (5) pp.1033-1042