A influência da posse de bola na posição final das equipes do campeonato brasileiro série A e B

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the relationship between ball possession and final position of teams in Brazilian national championship (first and second divisions). Data of the 2012, 2013 and 2014 seasons were collected from www.footstats.net website. Data were organized with support of Excel for Windows 2013 software. To the inferential analysis, proportions chi-square test, at a 5% of significance level, the SPSS 20.0 software was used. Significant and median correlations between ball possession and final position of the teams in the first division were showed, similarly than other studies with European leagues, however, this correlation was not significant when analyzing the second division. This indicates that the ball possession is probably related with the success of teams in elite championships, however not in second leagues. It is concluded that the success of Brazilian teams may be related not only with the larger ball possession values, but also the ability to use that possession efficiently.