Martin Hägglund

TL;DR: Recommendations are made on how the incidence of match and training injuries should be reported and a checklist of issues and information that should be included in published reports of studies of football injuries is presented.

TL;DR: The training and match injury incidences were stable over the period with no significant differences between seasons, and the risk of injury increased with time in each half of matches.

TL;DR: Muscle injuries constitute almost one third of all time-loss injuries in men’s professional football, and 92% of all injuries affect the 4 big muscle groups in the lower limbs.

TL;DR: An expert group to review the scientific evidence for the relationship of load and health outcomes in sport provides athletes, coaches and support staff with practical guidelines to manage load in sport.

TL;DR: Overall injury incidences were similar between consecutive seasons, indicating that an injury surveillance study covering one full season can provide a reasonable overview of the injury problem among elite football players in a specific environment, but a prolonged study period is recommended for analyses of specific injury patterns.