Evaluation of matches in different leagues with match analysis method

The aim of this research is to evaluate the five major European soccer leagues and the Turkish league by using match analysis method and to compare the competition parameters with each other. The study covers the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons of English Premier League, Italian Serie A, Spanish La Liga, German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1 and Turkish Super League. In the research, InStat data were used and in-season inter-group comparisons were made to determine which country's league is ahead according to the difference scores obtained between the selected dependent variables. The Shapiro Wilk Test was used to test whether the data sets of the dependent variables were normally distributed and SPSS 23 software was used. One-Way MANOVA for Unrelated Samples and comparisons of more than two groups; One-Way ANOVA and Mann Whitney-U Tests were applied for pairwise comparisons. In the comparisons made on 20 different parameters such as passing, shooting, corners, offside, etc.; it was seen that the data of the Turkish Super League in the 2019-2020 season revealed a statistically significant difference from all other country leagues and this difference was against the Turkish Super League. In the 2020-2021 season, it was concluded that the average instat index values of the Turkish league teams generally showed different results in cross-country leagues, but the average instat index values of the teams belonging to the leagues of Turkey-Spain, France-Germany, France-Italy, Germany-Italy countries were similar to each other.