Get started
Author

Liam Sweeney

ORCID: 0000-0002-3443-2763
Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-3443-2763
OpenAlex ID: A5082863696
Premature Professionalisation or Early Engagement? Examining Practise in Football Player Pathways
2021 · Liam Sweeney, Dan Horan, et al. · Frontiers in Sports and Active Living · 53
PDF
A tale of two selection biases: The independent effects of relative age and biological maturity on player selection in the Football Association of Ireland's national talent pathway
2022 · Liam Sweeney, Sean P Cumming, et al. · International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching · 49
PDF
Push and Pull Factors: Contextualising Biological Maturation and Relative Age in Talent Development Systems
2023 · Liam Sweeney, Jamie Taylor, et al. · Children · 43
PDF
The selection advantages associated with advanced biological maturation vary according to playing position in national-level youth soccer
2022 · Liam Sweeney, Sean Cummin, et al. · Biology of Sport · 27
PDF
The Irish Football Player Pathway: Examining Stakeholder Coherence Throughout and Across the Player Development System
2022 · Liam Sweeney, Áine MacNamara, et al. · Frontiers in Sports and Active Living · 26
PDF
Relative age and biological maturity-related selection biases in male youth soccer across different competitive levels within a national association
2024 · Liam Sweeney, Tommy R Lundberg · Science and Medicine in Football · 15
PDF
International selection and competition in youth sport: pin the tail on the donkey or targeted intervention?
2023 · Liam Sweeney, Áine MacNamara, et al. · Frontiers in Sports and Active Living · 13
PDF
Looking beyond relative age to understand relative advantage and disadvantage in talent development
2024 · Liam Sweeney, Alfonso de la Rubia, et al. · Frontiers in Sports and Active Living · 11
PDF
The developmental pathways of senior international soccer players: A 13-year analysis of the career trajectories of the Swedish men’s senior international team
2025 · Liam Sweeney, Anton Kalén, et al. · PLoS ONE · 6
Performance safety: conceptualising psychological safety when errors have consequences
2025 · Jamie Taylor, Thomas W. Gretton, et al. · Journal of Applied Sport Psychology · 5
Biological maturity but not relative age biases exist in female international youth soccer players relative to the general population
2024 · Liam Sweeney, Tommy R Lundberg, et al. · Biology of Sport · 4
PDF
Riding the wave: a prospective exploration of the temporal impact of perceived challenges on the development of relatively early high performing national-level youth soccer players
2024 · Liam Sweeney, Áine MacNamara, et al. · European Journal for Sport and Society · 3
PDF
Selection of reference data significantly influences biological maturity timing classification in national youth soccer players
2024 · Liam Sweeney, Áine MacNamara, et al. · International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching · 3
PDF
The contribution of modern biological anthropology to player development and selection in elite soccer.
2025 · Tim Thompson, Paul Chesterton, et al. · Football Studies · 2
Measuring eccentric hip adductor strength during the Copenhagen adduction exercise: A proof-of-concept and test re-test reliability study
2025 · Jack T. Hickey, Cian Lennon, et al. · Physical Therapy in Sport · 2
Fundamental movement skills in grassroots soccer: A comparative study of coaches’ perceptions and practices in 9 European countries
2025 · Laurens Gilson, Ricardo Martins, et al. · International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching · 1
A Qualitative Investigation Into the Exercise Habits, Motivators, and Barriers Faced by HealthCare Shift Workers
2025 · Cian Sweeney, Liam Sweeney, et al. · Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine · 1
PDF
Physical and perceptual demands of youth international team match-play in traditional and aged-matched future teams for biologically late maturing soccer players
2024 · Liam Sweeney, Lukas Sinkunas, et al. · Annals of Human Biology · 1
PDF
The Relationship Between Maximum Lower Limb Strength & Power, and GPS Acceleration Speed in Elite U20 Gaelic Football Athletes
2024 · Michael O'Driscoll, Tommy Mooney, et al. · International Journal of Strength and Conditioning · 1
PDF
Influence of Chronological Age, Anthropometric Characteristics and Biological Maturity on Eccentric Knee Flexion Strength During the Nordic Hamstring Exercise in Female International Youth Soccer Players
2026 · Jack T. Hickey, Tommy R. Lundberg, et al. · European Journal of Sport Science
PDF
Coaching From the Heart: Experiences of Coaches Delivering the Special Olympics Young Athletes Programme
2026 · Hayley Kavanagh, Sean Healy, et al. · International Sport Coaching Journal
48 Measuring eccentric hip adductor strength during the copenhagen adduction exercise: a proof of concept and test re-test reliability study
2025 · Jack Hickey, Liam Sweeney
PDF
Works count: 22
Citation count: 266
H-index: 8
I10-index: 8
Year
Topic
Type