ArticleSports (Basel, Switzerland)2024
The Impact of Match Workload and International Travel on Injuries in Professional Men's Football.
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- No clear association between time to return-to-play and first additional injury in European professional football players after ACL injury: A media-based study.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2026Article
- Association Between Olympic Basketball Participation and Subsequent NBA Season Performance and Injury Incidence.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2026Article
- Cognitive-Motor Dual-Task Training (CMDT) Approaches for Performance, Recovery, Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Return to Sport in Soccer: A Narrative Review with Practical Recommendations for Soccer Clubs.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Review
- Return-to-play timing and secondary anterior cruciate ligament injury risk in elite soccer players: A transfermarkt-based longitudinal analysis.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2026Article
- Return to play is reliable, but market value declines after proximal hamstring repair in elite soccer players.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2026Article
- ACL Injuries in Major League Soccer: A 10-Year Analysis of Injury Rate and Return to Play, and Performance Metrics by Player Position.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2025Article
- The International Match Calendar in Men's Professional Football: An Expert Position Statement.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2025Article
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Abstract
There are concerns over the impact of the congested international match calendar on professional footballers' physical and mental well-being, and injury susceptibility. This study aimed to determine whether there were differences in match workload and international travel between injured and non-injured male football players over two elite competition seasons. An observational, retrospective, case-control study was conducted using data from the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 seasons of five top-tier European men's football leagues. Student
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