{"id":8977,"date":"2020-06-26T20:32:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T00:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.traceup.com\/?p=8977"},"modified":"2023-06-21T07:03:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T14:03:57","slug":"how-many-minutes-does-a-youth-soccer-player-get-in-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/how-many-minutes-does-a-youth-soccer-player-get-in-a-game","title":{"rendered":"How Many Minutes Does a Youth Soccer Player Get in a Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Parents often ask, \u201cHow many minutes should my son or daughter expect to play in a game?\u201d It\u2019s a great question, and we have some answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trace collects tons of youth soccer player data across all age groups and skill levels. One metric we track is minutes played. With tens of thousands of games, we have more than enough data to understand the average minutes played. Below is a chart with data from every 2004 girls team who Traced in the last 12 months. We\u2019ll focus on the three groups outlined in the chart below, with a bit of an explanation on what minutes mean to players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minutes Played<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Group A \u2192 About 40 minutes per game<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Group A is the first large group of players that we see when moving left to right on the chart. At the 04 age group, 40 minutes is about half the game. What we see when we take a closer look at this age group, is that these players aren\u2019t all starting the first or second half, so coaches are sequencing their playing time across the game, and getting their players a total that equals about half the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Group B \u2192 Between 55 and 65 minutes per game<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Group B is the second bump. These are players who are playing \u2154 of the game. What\u2019s interesting about these players is their stamina, many of them are showing signs of reduced performance (Stamina of 70 or below). What may be going on here is that the coach is seeing the player\u2019s performance deteriorating, and pulling the player out for a substitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ending Stamina for 55 through 65 minutes played<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Group C \u2192 80 minutes per game<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The largest peak we see in the first graph are players who are playing the full game. And this makes sense. Playing the entire game means more than likely a player is one of the best on the team. They get the most consistent playing time, they\u2019re more likely to show up and play more games as a result, and the cycle perpetuates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some players will thrive in a group, and shouldn\u2019t strive to join another. It might make more sense to invest in becoming more dominant in their current group, rather than advancing to more playing minutes. It\u2019s important to know what their skillset is and how that aligns with the minutes they play. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every soccer player wants to be on the field. But how many minutes should your son or daughter expect to play?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155722367,"featured_media":17294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[703414511],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-8977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-player-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/minutes-in-a-soccer-game-1.jpg?fit=500%2C312&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155722367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8977"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33572,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions\/33572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8977"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=8977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}