When it comes to burning calories, two factors make the biggest difference in how many you burn: the activity you're participating in and how long you participate. For indoor soccer, a game that can be described as sprint interval training while chasing a ball, your length of participation is determined by the length of the game.
Indoor Soccer
Indoor soccer allows players to participate even in areas and seasons with inclement weather. However, the indoor soccer field is smaller, and games are often shorter. FIFA regulations for indoor soccer allow individual leagues to set their own length for indoor soccer play, with typical games lasting between 25 and 60 minutes.
Calorie Burn
HealthStatus.com reports a 150-lb. adult would burn about 685 calories in a one-hour game of indoor soccer. This assumes the adult played actively throughout the game. The defensemen on a team winning by shutout would be unlikely to burn this many, nor would the goalie for either team. A shorter game would burn a proportionally smaller number of calories.
Body Weight
Aside from activity and duration, body weight makes the biggest difference in how many calories you burn in an activity. Playing the same 60-minute game of soccer, a 60-lb. child would burn only 275 calories. A 200-lb. adult would burn more than 900.
Other Factors
Calculating the calories you burn in any activity is more approximate art than exact science. Diverse elements such as air temperature, length of warmup and even mood can affect the number of calories you burn in a given activity. In a game like soccer, where a player might work hard against one team and be relatively stationary against the next, this calculationgets even more inexact. Any calculations you make about your calorie burn in a game of indoor soccer should be considered a "best guestimate," not an exact figure.
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