Short-sprint performance (0–5, 0–10 and 0–20 m) of football code athletes can be enhanced through secondary (i.e., resisted or assisted sprinting), tertiary (i.e., strength, power and plyometrics) and combined (i.e., primary [i.e., sprinting, running drills] or secondary and tertiary) training methods. Combined specific training methods (i.e., primary and secondary methods) improved short-sprint performance (0–5 and 0–10 m). However, the sport only and primary methods alone do not appear to enhance short-sprint performance. No individual mode was found to be the most effective.

Independent of the population characteristics, findings suggest that practitioners should develop either or both the magnitude and the orientation of forces an athlete can generate and express in the sprinting action to improve short-sprint performance.

Research has mainly been undertaken within male soccer athletes including some form of tertiary training methods (e.g., strength, power and plyometrics training).