Match Injuries in Professional Soccer: Inter-Seasonal Variation and Effects of Competition Type, Match Congestion and Positional Role

Carling, Chris; Orhant, Emmanuel; Legall, Franck

doi:10.1055/s-0029-1243646

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“…These encouraging findings generally lend support to previous research conducted in the present club which showed that sporadic congested fixture schedules do not affect injury rates or severity [9]. Again, effective player rotation policies and recovery strategies as well as controlled functional injury prevention and rehabilitation protocols [8] currently in place at the present club might have contributed to these findings.…”

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“…However, only limited and contrasting information is available on the effects of calendar congestion and injury rates in professional soccer. Research in French players has shown that a very short interval between fixtures (≤3days) did not result in a higher injury risk or layoff time per injury compared to a longer interval (≥4days) [9]. In contrast, injury incidence was approximately six-times higher in Scottish players playing 2 games in a 4-day period compared to peers in the same team who had not played a match for 6-days or more [11].…”

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Are Physical Performance and Injury Risk in a Professional Soccer Team in Match-Play Affected Over a Prolonged Period of Fixture Congestion?

Carling¹,

Gall²,

Dupont³

2011

Int J Sports Med

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In this study, the effects of a prolonged period of fixture congestion (8 successive official matches in 26-days) on physical performance and injury risk and severity in a professional soccer team were investigated. Computerised motion-analysis was used to analyse the overall distance covered and that run at light-(0.0-11.0 km•h -1 ); low-(11.1-14.0 km•h -1 ); moderate-(14.1-19.7 km•h -1 ) and high-intensities (≥19.8 km•h -1 ) for the team as a whole. Distances were measured in metres per minute. Information on match injuries was recorded prospectively. The overall distance covered varied across successive matches (p<0.001) as more distance was run in games 4 and 7 compared to 2 and 3 respectively ( When comparing match halves, there were no differences across games in overall or high-intensity distance covered and performance in these measures was similar for matches played before, during and after this period. Globally, no difference over the 8 games combined was observed between the reference team and opponents in any of the performance measures whereas the overall distance covered and that in low-(both p<0.001) and high-intensity running (p=0.040) differed in individual games. The incidence of match injury during the congested fixture period was similar to rates reported outside this period but the mean layoff duration of injuries was substantially shorter during the former (p<0.05). In summary, while the overall distance run and that covered at lower intensities varied across games, high-intensity running performance and injury risk were generally unaffected during a prolonged period of fixture congestion. These results might be linked to squad rotation and post-match recovery strategies in place at the present club.

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Are Physical Performance and Injury Risk in a Professional Soccer Team in Match-Play Affected Over a Prolonged Period of Fixture Congestion?

Carling¹,

Gall²,

Dupont³

2011

Int J Sports Med

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130

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“…An advantage of a 1-season prospective study design is the small number of dropouts due to in-season transfers, but a disadvantage is that the findings may represent a chance occurrence for that particular season. 27 However, several prospective studies 14,15,17 of a number of seasons demonstrated no significant changes in injury incidence over time. These results indicated that a study covering 1 full season can provide a sufficient assessment of the injury incidence among soccer players.…”

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“…6,7 Investigations that describe injury risk and injury patterns in professional soccer have typically been conducted during tournaments, [8][9][10][11] have involved only teams at the highest European level, 10,12 have covered only part of a season, 13 or were related to only 1 team. 14,15 Limited published research has included data on injuries within 1 national professional male soccer competition and involving multiple teams. Hence, little is known about the differences among countries in injury risk and injury patterns in professional male soccer players.…”

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Injuries in Professional Male Soccer Players in the Netherlands: A Prospective Cohort Study

Stubbe

Beijsterveldt

Knaap

et al. 2015

Journal of Athletic Training

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Context: Injuries are a major adverse event in a soccer player's career. Reducing injury incidence requires a thorough knowledge of the epidemiology of soccer injuries.Objective: To investigate the incidence and characteristics of injuries in the Dutch premier soccer league.Design: Cohort study. Setting: The Dutch premier soccer league.Patients or Other Participants: During the 2009-2010 soccer season, a total of 217 professional soccer players from 8 teams were prospectively followed.Main Outcome Measure(s): The medical staff recorded time-loss injuries, including information on injuries (ie, type, body part, duration) and exposure data for training sessions and matches.Results: A total of 286 injuries were recorded, affecting 62.7% of the players. The overall injury incidence was 6.2 injuries per 1000 player-hours, 2.8 in training sessions and 32.8 in matches. Most of the recorded injuries were acute (68.5%). Eight percent of the injuries were classified as recurrent. Injuries were most likely to be located in the lower extremities (82.9%). Injury time loss ranged from 1 to 752 days, with a median of 8 days. Knee injuries had the greatest consequences in terms of days of absence from soccer play (on average, 45 days). The most common diagnosis was muscle/tendon injury of the lower extremities (32.9%).Conclusions: Injury risk in the Dutch premier soccer league is high, especially during matches. Preventive measures should focus on the most common diagnoses, namely, muscle/tendon injuries of the lower extremities.

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“…7,13, 18 In one study on a French professional soccer team followed during four consecutive seasons, no significant difference in injury rates in domestic matches compared with European Cup matches was shown. 7 Two studies have investigated the association between match injury rate and match result. One of these, including youth and senior national teams competing in European Championships, showed no association, 18 while the other, studying the Swedish senior national team, showed that the injury rate was increased during matches lost compared with matches won or drawn.…”

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Match Injury Rates in Professional Soccer Vary With Match Result, Match Venue, and Type of Competition

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Match Injuries in Professional Soccer: Inter-Seasonal Variation and Effects of Competition Type, Match Congestion and Positional Role

Cited by 77 publications

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