Sansone, P, Tschan, H, Foster, C, and Tessitore, A. Monitoring training load and perceived recovery in female basketball: Implications for training design. J Strength Cond Res 34 (10): 2929–2936, 2020—This study investigated the relationship between internal training load and perceived recovery of semi-professional female basketball players during the competitive season. Eleven female players were monitored for 14 weeks during the in-season phase. For each event (training and game), data were collected as follows:(a) Total Quality Recovery (TQR) score before the event (TQR pre);(b) session Rating of Perceived Exertion (sRPE) 20 minutes after completion of the event, to calculate training load (s-TL) of the event; and (c) TQR scores 12 (TQR post12) and 24 hours (TQR post24) after the event. Data were analyzed for daily, weekly, and mesocycle (regular season; regional play-off; and national play-off) time frames. Daily analysis showed that: TQR post12 was lower than TQR pre (p< 0.001) and TQR post24 (p< 0.001); s-TL had a moderate negative correlation with TQR post12 (r=− 0.48, p= 0.002); the difference between TQR pre and RPE (TS-Δ) had a very large positive correlation with TQR post12 (r= 0.70, p< 0.001); and TQR post24 was not significantly correlated with training parameters. Weekly analysis highlighted a very large negative correlation between the acute: chronic workload ratio and TQR collected at the start of the following week (TQR fw)(r=− 0.86, p< 0.001). Finally, although weekly TL and TQR fw did not differ between mesocycles, their correlation increased in the later seasonal phases. This study demonstrated negative relationships between training load and recovery of semi-professional female basketball players at daily, weekly, and mesocycle levels. Therefore, concurrently monitoring training and recovery with the sRPE method and TQR scale is recommended for designing training schedules in basketball.