Background: Given the rapidly increasing interest in national futures programmes, and the associated significant increased resource investment, there is a pressing need for data specific to futures programmes to inform practice across world football. Aim: To investigate the differences in the physical and perceptual demands of match-play using Global Positioning Software technology and Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) in traditional youth internation team and age-matched international future teams for biologically late-maturing players over one in-season period. Subjects and methods: total of 18 U15 future team (FT) players and 21 national team (NT) playe were examined. Results: The results showed that FT players performed 9% greater total distances (p=0.008, Cohen’s d 1.29) and accumulated 20% greater total player loads (p<0.001, Cohen’s d 1.88) than NT players durin matches. In contrast, NT players covered 113% greater sprinting distances (p=0.033, Cohen’s d 0.63) a performed 62% more high-intensity accelerations (p=0.015, Cohen’s d 0.90) than FT players. There were no differences in high-intensity and very high-intensity running distances, number of accelerations, number of decelerations or high-intensity decelerations, or match-play RPE. When accounting for biological maturation, the adjusted marginal means were not different between FT and NT players in any physical metric except for total player load (p=0.046) and high-intensity accelerations (p<0.030). Conclusion: We conclude that while several physical performance metrics differ significantly between FT and NT match-play, the most robust differences after controlling for maturation are in sprint performance and high-intensity accelerations.