Football game comprise all forms of natural movements as running, stopping, turning, jumping, falling, throwing, pushing, and occur with different intensity, tempo and duration, with purpose of defending and attacking actions (Rado et al., 2002). Balance abilities of players are very important for the function of maintaining adequate body posture while shooting, pushing, and landing, and especially for injure preventing. Purpose of the research was to find differences in balance ability, propriocetive qualities of players at different levels of competition in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Methods Study from the season 2007/2008, involved 129 players, seniors, from different level of competition (five levels): level-I (National team), level-II (Premier League), level-III (First League), level-IV (Second League) and level-V (Cantonal League). Biodex Stability System was used to test balance ability of players, stability level 4, duration of 20sec, stability index was recorded. T-test for independent samples was used for difference determination between levels. Results Results of the study has shown statistically significant differences between third (First League) and fourth (Second League) levels. p<.05, in favor of the level four, while between other levels there was no statistically significant differences recorded. Average value of the stability index were as follows: level-I (National Team) 6.1, level-II (Premier League) 6.8, level-III (First League) 7.3, level-IV (Second League) 5.4, level-V (Cantonal League) 6.7. Discussion Results of the study didn`t show expected differences between levels of competition. Differences in balance ability were notable only between levels three and four. Differences between levels were expected to be in favor of quality of the competition, but that was not the case (Alic, 2008). We assume that proprioceptive training was disregarded at the all tested levels of competition and that is the reason why there were no differences between levels.
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