@article{ref1,
title="The Football Association Injury and Illness Surveillance Study: the incidence,  burden and severity of injuries and illness in men's and women's international  football",
journal="Sports medicine",
year="2020",
author="Sprouse, Bradley and Alty, Jon and Kemp, Steve and Cowie, Charlotte and Mehta, Ritan and Tang, Alicia and Morris, John and Cooper, Simon and Varley, Ian",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To determine the incidence and characteristics of injury and illness in  English men's and women's senior and youth international football. <br><br>METHODS:  Time-loss injuries and illnesses, alongside match and training exposure, were  collected across 8 seasons (2012-2020) in youth (U15, U16, U17, U18, U19) and senior  (U20, U21, U23, senior) English men's and women's international teams. Analysis of  incidence, burden, and severity of injury and illness was completed. Sex-specific  comparisons were made between the senior and youth groups, and across the 8 seasons  of data collection. <br><br>RESULTS: In men's international football, 535 injuries were  recorded (216 senior; 319 youth) during 73,326 h of exposure. Overall, match injury  incidence (31.1 ± 10.8 injuries/1000 h) and burden (454.0 ± 195.9 d absent/1000 h)  were greater than training injury incidence (4.0 ± 1.0 injuries/1000 h) and burden  (51.0 ± 21.8 d absent/1000 h) (both P < 0.001). In women's international football,  503 injuries were recorded (senior: 177; youth: 326) during 80,766 h of exposure and  match injury incidence (27.6 ± 11.3 injuries/1000 h) and burden (506.7 ± 350.2 days  absent/1000 h) were greater than training injury incidence (5.1 ± 1.8  injuries/1000 h) and burden (87.6 ± 32.8 days absent/1000 h) (both P < 0.001). In  women's international football, a group × season interaction was observed for  training injury incidence (P = 0.021), with the senior group recording a greater  training injury incidence during the 2015-2016 season compared to the youth group  (14.4 vs 5.7 injuries/1000 h; P = 0.022). There was no difference in injury severity  between match and training for men's (P = 0.965) and women's (P = 0.064)  international football. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The findings provide a comprehensive  examination of injury and illness in English men's and women's senior and youth  international football. Practitioners will be able to benchmark their team's injury  and illness incidence and characteristics to the match-play and training information  provided in the present study.   Keywords: Soccer<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0112-1642",
doi="10.1007/s40279-020-01411-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40279-020-01411-8"
}