ArticleKnee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA2023
The incidence of anterior cruciate ligament injury in youth and male soccer athletes: an evaluation of 17,108 players over two consecutive seasons with an age-based sub-analysis.
Article in Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Incidence of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury and Subgroup Analysis by Age, Sex, Injury Mechanism, and Severity Among Bangladeshi 1853 Soccer Players: A 1-Year Prospective Cohort Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Lateral extra-articular procedures in primary anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction reduce graft failure rates in elite and competitive athletes: A systematic review.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2026Review
- Anterior cruciate ligament injury incidence in male and female soccer players: A longitudinal study over six consecutive seasons.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2025Article
- Age-specific over-the-top techniques for physeal sparing anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction in skeletally immature patients: Current concepts for prepubescents to older adolescents.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2025Article
- Extraphyseal Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction and Lateral Tenodesis Using Hamstrings for Prepubescent Patients: The WHAT Technique (Without Hardware And Tunnels).Arthroscopy techniques · 2025Article
- Greater hip internal rotation range of motion is associated with increased dynamic knee valgus during jump landing, both before and after fatigue.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2025Article
- ACL Reconstruction in Skeletally Immature Athletes: Current Concepts.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Review
- Differences in Clinical Outcomes and Rotational Stability Between Anterolateral Ligament Reconstruction and Lemaire Lateral Tenodesis Following Primary Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.The archives of bone and joint surgery · 2025Article
- 12.5% of all women's and 7.7% of all men's players from the 2022 and 2023 FIFA World Cups underwent a previous anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2025Article
- Global overview of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in children and adolescents over the past 20 years: a bibliometric analysis.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2024Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeTo evaluate the incidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in male athletes from professional soccer clubs over two consecutive seasons (2018-2019) with a sub-analysis based on age category: under-13 (U-13), under-15 (U-15), under-17 (U-17), and under-20 (U-20) years.
methodsA total of 17,108 young male soccer players were retrospectively reviewed from sixty-three professional clubs in the four highest Brazilian soccer divisions. Data regarding the number of athletes and the number of ACL injuries confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams in the 2018 and 2019 seasons were collected. Incidence of ACL injury were compared by season, age category (under-13; under-15; under 17; and under-20), demographic region, and club division.
resultsClubs from all regions of Brazil participated in the study. A total of 336 primary ACL injuries were diagnosed over the two seasons (8,167 athletes during the 2018 season and 8,941 athletes during the 2019 season) among all athletes, which corresponds to 2% of the included athletes. There were 11 cases (0.3%) in the under-13, 53 cases (1.3%) in the under-15, 107 cases (2.5%) in the under-17, and 165 cases (3.8%) in the under-20 age category. There was a higher incidence of ACL injury in the older age groups (p < 0.001).
conclusionA total of 336 ACL injuries were identified in 17,108 youth soccer players from 63 professional clubs with an overall incidence of 2% over 2 seasons of competition. ACL injury rate ranged from 0.3% to 3.8% and was higher in the older and more competitive club divisions. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: IV.
Indexed as
Identifiers
36779987What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.