Additional Field Player Tactics’ Effects to Match Performance During the Numerical Asymmetric Situations In Female Handball

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze to effects of additional field player rule as a tactical intervention in elite femalehandball. The thirty-nine highly competitive handball matches were undergone notational analysis from 2020 IHF Women’sWorld Championship. Goal, 7-m and 2-min penalty, missed shots, technical errors, received goal empty net, missed shotsempty net, fast break goals and substitution failures analyzed during the goalkeeper benched durations for tolerate thenumerical inferiority or creating numerical asymmetry to attack with an extra player for each 10-min periods. There was asignificant difference between 5&6 and 7&6 situations however no statistically significant differences all parameters in bothsituations in comparison winner and loser teams. Moreover, we did not observe significantly changes all parameters whencompared the match periods in 5&6 and 7&6 situations. These findings suggested that current tactical variation more frequentlyused by teams to tolerate the numerical inferiority in the attack whereas the consequences of application has a low risk toreceive goal the empty net. Current findings of this study teams which used the additional field player strategy has no extraattacking efficiency however this tactical application does not result in any negative effects within risk of empty goalie