Impaired sleep and recovery after night matches in elite football players

摘要: ABSTRACTDespite the perceived importance of sleep for elite footballers, descriptions duration and quality sleep, especially following match play, are limited. Moreover, recovery responses loss remain unclear. Accordingly, present study examined subjective footballers across training days (TD) both day night matches (DM NM). Sixteen top division European players from three clubs completed a online questionnaire twice 21 days during season. Subjective recall variables (duration, onset latency, time wake/sleep, wake episode duration), range perceptual related to recovery, mood, performance internal loads non-exercise stressors were collected. Players reported significantly reduced durations NM compared DM (−157 min) TD (−181 min). In addition, restfulness (SR; arbitrary scale 1 = very restful, 5 = not at all restful) rec...