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This study aimed to characterize the time course of urinary metabolic perturbation and its persistence during a 20-day winter training season (WTS) using urinary metabolomics. Methods: Urinary metabolites in female soccer players were analyzed before (Bef) and 1 (After_1D) and 7 days after completion (After_7D) of the 20-day WTS using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy combined with multivariate analysis. Results: A total of 84 metabolites were identified in urine samples, and distinct group separation was observed by partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) in targeted profiling. Among these, 13 metabolites, including adenine, alanine, citrate, creatine, creatine phosphate (PCr), formate, glutamine, glycine, malonate, mannitol, taurine, trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), and urea, showed significant changes in the three groups (Bef, After_1D and After_7D). Conclusions: Of the identified metabolites, six metabolites\u2014alanine, PCr, formate, glutamine, glycine, and malonate\u2014were significantly increased at 1 day post-WTS (After_1D) compared with pre-WTS (Bef) levels. These metabolites were lower at 7 days post-WTS (After_7D) than at 1 day post-WTS (After_1D). However, the metabolic profile had not fully returned to pre-WTS levels by day 7, suggesting that recovery following WTS may require longer than at least 7 days after a 20-day WTS.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/metabo16090675","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,14]],"date-time":"2026-09-14T12:09:51Z","timestamp":1789387791000},"page":"675","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Urinary Metabolic Profiles Before and After the Winter Training Season in Female Soccer Players"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3203-462X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hyang Yeon","family":"Kim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Pharmacy, Dankook University, Cheonan 31116, Republic of Korea"},{"name":"Center for Human Risk Assessment, Dankook University, 119 Dandae-ro, Cheonan 31116, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"methodology","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"software","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"validation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"data-curation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"visualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"funding-acquisition","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0714-8596","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jung Dae","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Pharmacy, Dankook University, Cheonan 31116, Republic of Korea"},{"name":"Center for Human Risk Assessment, Dankook University, 119 Dandae-ro, Cheonan 31116, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"validation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"formal-analysis","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"funding-acquisition","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"given":"Ho-Seong","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of International Sports Studies, Dankook University, Cheonan 31116, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"conceptualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-review-editing","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"project-administration","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7560-558X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ji-Suk","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Sport Management, Dankook University, Cheonan 31116, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Suhkmann","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials, Pusan National University, Busan Daehak-ro 63 beon-gil 2, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"formal-analysis","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"data-curation","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"given":"Gi-Wook","family":"Hwang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Environmental and Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho ku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-Ku, Sendai 981-8558, Miyagi, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"project-administration","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"resources","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2139-2296","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kyu-Bong","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Pharmacy, Dankook University, Cheonan 31116, Republic of Korea"},{"name":"Center for Human Risk Assessment, Dankook University, 119 Dandae-ro, Cheonan 31116, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"conceptualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"funding-acquisition","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"project-administration","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-review-editing","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-original-draft","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"supervision","vocabulary":"credit"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"FIFA (2026, June 19). 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