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- Construction, validation and application of an observation system in footballPublication . Cruz, Lara; Loureiro, Nuno; Costa, Paulo; Teixeira, EduardoThe football game emerges from the nature of the confrontation between two teams, characterized by the successive alternation of states of high order, disorder, stability and variability (1). Considering the natural development of football, new challenges emerge for the coach in terms of team preparation (2). The evolution and development of the football game requires coaches to constantly update their knowledge about the players and the teams where they work (3). The analysis of the football game, based on the observation of the activity of players and teams, assumes enormous importance in sports preparation (4). Along with game analysis, a topic that has gained a lot of relevance in today's football is women's football. It’s possible to observe this growth in popularity at UEFA Women’s Euro 2017 held in the Netherlands were there was an increase of 20.7 million spectators compared to the same competition in 2013. The stadiums at the home team's games were always sold out, with the total attendance of the competition being 240,045 spectators, record numbers for this sport (5). The observational methodology was used in this study because of its closely relation to sports analysis. It favors the description and analysis between the observed object and the observer in this logic of scientific investigation, due to the great interaction of the characteristics of the conducts between them and the difficulty in controlling contextual constraints (6).