Key performance indicators in elite women’s blind football based on technical-tactical and match performance metrics

Female footballers with any level of vision impairment (VI) that meet the sport’s minimum impairment criteria (the point at which impairment impacts performance in the un-adapted form of the sport) wear eyeshades and compete together in blind football. The women’s sport has only recently held its first World Championships. Key performance indicators (KPIs) for women’s blind football have yet to be identified in scientific research. Therefore, the study aimed to determine the KPIs for women’s blind football. Video match analysis provided notational data of 8 international women’s blind teams who competed in a total of 15 world championship matches. Team and hybrid variables (offensive, defensive and ball possession index) were used to identify predictors of win ratio (total games won divided by total games played). Offensive zone entries (β = 0.0229), total shots (β = 0.0049) and the number of VI players (β = 0.1411) were significant predictors of win ratio (p