New Zealand Football: Player Profiling

Coaches > Player Profiling

Developing a player profile for yourself or your players helps to:

Identify strengths and weaknesses, to help guide training programme design
Monitor development
Guide return from illness or injury

There are two parts to a Player Profile:

Health and Lifestyle Questionnaire
2. The Fitness Check-up

Ideally, profiling should be done at the start and end of pre-season, midway through the season and again at the end.

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Health and Lifestyle Questionnaire

Personal information: name, age, address, emergency contacts, lifestyle habits, occupation, living arrangements, dietary habits, etc.

Medical History: known conditions and severity, medications, previous injuries and treatment, family history of disease and family doctor details.

Don’t leave finding out this information until it’s too late.

The Fitness Check-up

Content will vary depending upon the time, resources and expertise available to you
Even some simple tests, like those in the table below, provide useful information and allow goals to be set
Tests scores are very motivating and provide a great incentive to train.

Height	Try to always measure at the same time of day
Weight	Try to always measure at the same time of day
Aerobic Fitness	12 minute run, beep test or Yo Yo Test (1)
Speed	30 metre sprint (2)
Leg power	Standing long jump or vertical jump
Balance	Stork test – timed single leg balance

(1) The Yo Yo test is a football-specific endurance test, available by contacting sportandhealthnz@gmail.com
(2) Ideally, speed would be measured over shorter distances, but without electronic timing lights, this is unreliable.

Example Profile Forms

The example forms below are designed for different groups of players. Choose the one that suits you best or design your own.

Small Whites Junior Club Senior Elite