Sports physiology is a crucial speciality for a professional football team. Physiologists analyse functional conditions, produce systematic evaluations, develop the accompaniment of adaptations during training, and research and reflect on the various aspects pertaining to the evolution of training periodization.

Football physiologists require a vast knowledge of scientific methodologies for the functional evaluation of athletes, as well as a specific mastery of bioenergetics concepts applied to football.

Most of all, physiologists are health professionals that contribute to the development of scientific information that clubs and federations must have at their disposal to ensure the optimal physical condition of their players.