Physiological response and activity profile in recreational small‐sided football: No effect of the number of players

We examined the effect of the number of players on the activity profile and physiological response to small‐sided recreational football games with fixed relative pitch size. Twelve untrained men (age: 33.0 ± 6.4 (± standard deviation) years, fat%: 22.4 ± 6.1%, VO 2 max: 43.3 ± 5.2 mL/min/kg) completed three football sessions of 4 times 12 min with 3v3, 5v5, or 7v7 in a randomized order. Pitch sizes were 80 m 2 per player. Activity profile (10 Hz...