The Effect of Training Variations on Football Shooting Accuracy at Budi Agung Private Senior High School Medan in 2025

Abstract

Objectives: This study aimed to determine the effect of training variations on football shooting accuracy among students at Budi Agung Private Senior High School Medan in 2025.

Materials and Methods: This study used an experimental method with a one-group pretest-posttest design. The participants were 11 football students selected through purposive sampling. The intervention consisted of several shooting training variations, including target shooting, zig-zag dribbling and shooting, passing and shooting, zig-zag running and shooting, chest jump and shooting, volley shooting, and sprint-step shooting exercises. The treatment was conducted for 18 sessions from April to May 2025. Data were collected using a football shooting accuracy test and analyzed using normality, homogeneity, and t-tests.

Results: The results showed an increase in football shooting accuracy after the training program. The pretest mean score was 25.27 with a standard deviation of 8.19, while the posttest mean score increased to 36.73 with a standard deviation of 8.84. The hypothesis test showed that the t-count value was 4.38, which was higher than the t-table value of 2.23 at df = 10 and α = 0.05. Therefore, the alternative hypothesis was accepted.

Conclusions: Training variations had a significant effect on improving football shooting accuracy among students at Budi Agung Private Senior High School Medan. These findings indicate that varied and structured shooting exercises can be used as an effective method to improve students’ football shooting performance.