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Therefore, this study aimed to determine the most demanding efforts during different training tasks in a cohort study conducted in professional biological women futsal players using principal component analysis (PCA). A total of 14 elite women futsal players (age = 24.34 \u00b1 4.51 years; height = 1.65 \u00b1 0.60 m; body mass = 63.20 \u00b1 5.65 kg) participated in this study. Seventy training sessions of an elite professional women\u2019s team were registered over five months (pre-season and in-season). Different types of exercises were grouped into six clusters: preventive exercises; analytical situations; exercises in midcourt; exercises in \u00be of the court; exercises in full court; superiorities\/inferiorities. Each exercise cluster was composed of 5\u20137 principal components (PCs), considering from 1 to 5 main variables forming each, explaining from 65 to 75% of the physical total variance. A total of 13\u201319 sub-variables explained the players\u2019 efforts in each training task group. The first PCs to explain the total variance of training load were as follows: preventive exercises (accelerations; ~31%); analytical situations (impacts; ~23%); exercises in midcourt (high-intensity efforts; ~28%); exercises in \u00be of the court (~27%) and superiorities\/inferiorities (~26%) (aerobic\/anaerobic components); exercises in full court (anaerobic efforts; ~24%). The PCs extracted from each exercise cluster provide evidence that may assist researchers and coaches during training load monitoring. 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