The success in a football match depends on many psichosomatic dimensions of a personality status of a sportsman. Some of the dimensions are: morphological characteristics, functional, motor and cognitive abilities, conative characteristics, motivation, sociological characteristics and the like. Knowledge of the structure of some anthropological abilities and characteristics of sportsmen as well as their development represents the basic condition for successful management of the process of a sports training. The aim of the research is to determine longitudinal skeleton dimension of young footballers. The sample of examinees consists of 120 footballers of different age categories from 'Vojvodina' football club, namely: junior pioneers (aged 11-12) - 30 examinees, senior pioneers (aged 13-14) - 30 examinees, cadets (aged 15-16) - 30 examinees and youth (aged 17-18) - 30 examinees. For longitudinal skeleton dimension assessment of young footballers body height and leg length were measured. The testing of significant differences between footballers of different age categories as well as deviation from expected values were calculated by 't-test' and univariate variance analysis (ANOVA). On the basis of the results got it can be concluded that average results show a general tendency of increase of results of longitudinal skeleton dimension from younger to older age categories. Variable measures show that youth examinees are the most homogenous in longitudinal skeleton dimensions while senior pioneers are the most heterogenous. In comparison to earlier investigation of adequate age categories it was observed an increase in the values of the longitudinal dimension. The obtained differences are probably caused by both acceleration and better selection, i.e. the need for higher players in modern football. .
