How fast are professional female soccer players?

They are slower than a boys U-15 select soccer club.

Ravin wrote:

Publisher wrote:

Published times are almost always grossly inaccurate for athletes in other sports

"I ran it in practice once"

"Wasn't a measured course"

"I'm pretty sure I could run17:00" (right before running a 23:00)

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Right but these are professional athletes, not 13 year olds lying about their running times on quora. Pro women soccer players normally vo2 test In the high 50s which line up perfectly with a 17-19 minute 5k.

Soccer players don´t do any continuous running in training, only intervals. A friend of mine coaches one of the top national teams in Sweden, and the current training dogma in soccer is that continuous running destroys speed, explosiveness, acceleration and agility.

Reguardless of whether they do as much endurance training as a seasoned runner, they still do more endurance work than 99% of people because stamina IS a factor and they could still put down some decent middle distance times when in shape. You are forgetting that most teams still do fitness checks such as bleep and cooper tests, you aren’t playing pro spccer without scoring decent on those reguardless of whether long aerobic work is a feautire in their training. The ability levels in soccer are diverse and the range for 90%+ of players would be something like this:

100m:

Between 12 and 14 seconds.

400m:

Between 0:55 and 1:10

800m:

Between 2:10 and 2:40

Mile:

Between 4:50 and 6:10

2 mile:

Between 10:50 and 13:20

5k:

Between 18:00 and 23:00

I know 3 soccer players:

14:30 5k guy

16:00 5k girl

2:08 800m girl

So they are much faster than what people here think. They all quit soccer in their early 20s and switched to running, and within one year of proper training reached those times. Soccer base fitness accumulated over years of training with multiple sessions a week can easily be transformed to good running times.

USWNT player McDonald holds the AZ state record in the 400 meters and won state titles in multiple events.

Itd probably help if you had input from females. As someone who ran track, and did well, Id say a 400M could be anywhere from a sub 1 min 400M to probably 65-67 seconds.. and Based on body type, for the 100M, Id say a more likely time would be high 11’s to 13+. Whoever ran 11.38 in high school is bookin it’ and that is not the norm. That time is smokin it for a high school girl. And ya gotta remember, the soccer players, are soccer players.. not track stars.. Go USA! ??

Pretty sure they all have social media accounts...just ask them...

CJ33 wrote:

Itd probably help if you had input from females. As someone who ran track, and did well, Id say a 400M could be anywhere from a sub 1 min 400M to probably 65-67 seconds.. and Based on body type, for the 100M, Id say a more likely time would be high 11’s to 13+. Whoever ran 11.38 in high school is bookin it’ and that is not the norm. That time is smokin it for a high school girl. And ya gotta remember, the soccer players, are soccer players.. not track stars.. Go USA! ??

soccer players are just track stars who don’t show up to track

67 for a pro soccer player is a joke, maybe the goalie eh

None of the measurables being noted here are relevant. It is all about pop, acceleration and timing. My 17 yr old daughter plays for a team that uses the Catapult vests which measures, well about anything you can think of. She has topped out at between 17-18 mph during in-game sprints, when it matters. That will improve next year in college when she is in better condition. She is sneaky fast, as she has a very long stride (not what you would expect for someone w/sprinter speed). Who cares how fast you can do a 100, 400 or 800 ? Not relative to soccer. Its about sprint and recover.

17mph is 7.6metres per second. Say she can hold that peak for the full distance (which no-one could) it works out at a 3.94 flying 30m. If you use your higher figure of 18mph, it's a 3.73 flying 30.

She may well be very good at football, but she most certainly doesn't have "sprinter speed" as you put it.

Here are a couple of articles which will let you understand top level soccer speed in the women's game.

Ali Krieger hit the highest maximum speed in the final of any player, reaching 34.7 km/h (21.56 mi/h)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.starsandstripesfc.com/platform/amp/2016/7/19/12228846/most-interesting-fitness-stats-uswnt-2015-women-world-cup

Watt just turned pro soccer 2020. These are high school track times from a soccer player running track(link below). Training as an elite sprinter is different than for a soccer player and she has never completed a full sprinter training cycle.

The 7.40s 60 meter was the beginning of her senior year just before an injury. The outdoor times are from her sophomore season.

@altitude

60 Meter Dash 7.4

100 Meter Dash 11.41

200 Meter Dash 23.65

400 Meter Dash 53.78

https://co.milesplit.com/athletes/pro/2475554/stats

In high level soccer, you usually see level 10.5-13 performances in the bleep test (for women).

Years back a local high school girl soccer player also ran track and cross country on the side. She was just under 5 for the 1600 and in mid 10:40s for the 3200. I recall she played soccer on the under 21 national team but don't think she played after that and instead focused on becoming a doctor. If she stuck to running and had a good coach, who knows. She may have become a good marathoner.

The average USWNT player is faster than the slow twitch types on this forum who struggle to break 30 in the 200. Our D3 team had soccer women who ran in the 25-27s FAT. Abby Steiner just ran 22.57 for UK at the SEC Indoors. She just dropped soccer to concentrate on track.

What are professional female soccer players? Do they even exist?

I've trained many years soccer.

I'd say, on average, :

5k : around 18:30 min

mile : around 5-5:10

Not too familiar with other distances to give an honest assessment.