{"search_date":"2026-10-26","review_type":"Targeted narrative literature search; not a systematic review","references":[{"id":"fuller2006","number":1,"label":"Fuller et al., 2006","authors":["Colin W. Fuller","Jan Ekstrand","Astrid Junge","Thor Einar Andersen","Roald Bahr","Jiri Dvorak","Martin Hägglund","Paul McCrory","Willem H. Meeuwisse"],"year":2006,"title":"Consensus statement on injury definitions and data collection procedures in studies of football (soccer) injuries","journal":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":"40","issue":"3","pages":"193–201","doi":"10.1136/bjsm.2005.025270","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsm.2005.025270","verification_url":"https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/40/3/193","evidence_type":"Football consensus","relevance":"Definitions, severity, recurrence and exposure","claim":"Standardized injury, recurrence and exposure definitions support interpretable comparisons.","limitation":"A consensus does not verify compliance or medical accuracy of the Kaggle archive."},{"id":"bahr2020","number":2,"label":"Bahr et al., 2020","authors":["Roald Bahr","Ben Clarsen","Wayne Derman","Jiri Dvorak","Carolyn A. Emery","Caroline F. Finch","Martin Hägglund","Astrid Junge","Simon Kemp","Karim M. Khan","Stephen W. Marshall","Willem Meeuwisse","Margo Mountjoy","John W. Orchard","Babette Pluim","Kenneth L. Quarrie","Bruce Reider","Martin Schwellnus","Torbjørn Soligard","Keith A. Stokes","Toomas Timpka","Evert Verhagen","Abhinav Bindra","Richard Budgett","Lars Engebretsen","Uğur Erdener","Karim Chamari"],"year":2020,"title":"International Olympic Committee consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020 (including STROBE Extension for Sport Injury and Illness Surveillance (STROBE-SIIS))","journal":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":"54","issue":"7","pages":"372–389","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2019-101969","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2019-101969","verification_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32071062/","evidence_type":"Surveillance consensus","relevance":"Exposure, time loss, burden and transparent reporting","claim":"Exposure and consequences must be recorded with definitions appropriate to the question.","limitation":"Does not supply missing exposure or eligibility denominators."},{"id":"walden2023","number":3,"label":"Waldén et al., 2023","authors":["Markus Waldén","Margo Mountjoy","Alan McCall","Andreas Serner","Andrew Massey","Johannes L. Tol","Roald Bahr","Michel D'Hooghe","Natália Bittencourt","Francesco Della Villa","Michiko Dohi","Gregory Dupont","Mark Fulcher","Dina Christina Christa Janse van Rensburg","Donna Lu","Thor Einar Andersen"],"year":2023,"title":"Football-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020","journal":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":"57","issue":"21","pages":"1341–1350","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2022-106405","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2022-106405","verification_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36609352/","evidence_type":"Football-specific consensus","relevance":"Updated football injury and illness nomenclature","claim":"Football surveillance benefits from consistent definitions, collection procedures and reporting.","limitation":"Does not establish specific diagnoses from vague source labels."},{"id":"bahr2018","number":4,"label":"Bahr, Clarsen and Ekstrand, 2018","authors":["Roald Bahr","Benjamin Clarsen","Jan Ekstrand"],"year":2018,"title":"Why we should focus on the burden of injuries and illnesses, not just their incidence","journal":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":"52","issue":"16","pages":"1018–1021","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2017-098160","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2017-098160","verification_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29021247/","evidence_type":"Methodological editorial","relevance":"Joint interpretation of frequency and consequence","claim":"Consequences should accompany event frequency when prioritizing health problems.","limitation":"Conceptual guidance; not a validation study or a predictive model."},{"id":"hagglund2013","number":5,"label":"Hägglund et al., 2013","authors":["Martin Hägglund","Markus Waldén","Henrik Magnusson","Karolina Kristenson","Håkan Bengtsson","Jan Ekstrand"],"year":2013,"title":"Injuries affect team performance negatively in professional football: an 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study","journal":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":"47","issue":"12","pages":"738–742","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2013-092215","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2013-092215","verification_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23645832/","evidence_type":"Prospective club cohort","relevance":"Availability and performance relevance","claim":"Lower burden and higher match availability were associated with better team performance.","limitation":"Observational association; does not establish causality or the same relation in this archive."},{"id":"ekstrand2023","number":6,"label":"Ekstrand et al., 2023","authors":["Jan Ekstrand","Håkan Bengtsson","Markus Waldén","Michael Davison","Karim M. Khan","Martin Hägglund"],"year":2023,"title":"Hamstring injury rates have increased during recent seasons and now constitute 24% of all injuries in men's professional football: the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study from 2001/02 to 2021/22","journal":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":"57","issue":"5","pages":"292–298","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2021-105407","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2021-105407","verification_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36588400/","evidence_type":"Prospective medical-staff cohort","relevance":"Hamstring frequency and burden over time","claim":"The monitored cohort documented increasing hamstring injury and absence-day proportions over 21 seasons.","limitation":"Its clinical categories and exposure-based trends are not directly comparable with raw Kaggle labels."},{"id":"krutsch2020","number":7,"label":"Krutsch et al., 2020","authors":["Volker Krutsch","Stephan Grechenig","Oliver Loose","Leonard Achenbach","Johannes Zellner","Heiko Striegel","Volker Alt","Johannes Weber","Markus Braun","Stephan Gerling","Werner Krutsch"],"year":2020,"title":"Injury Analysis in Professional Soccer by Means of Media Reports – Only Severe Injury Types Show High Validity","journal":"Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":"11","pages":"123–131","doi":"10.2147/OAJSM.S251081","url":"https://doi.org/10.2147/OAJSM.S251081","verification_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32884370/","evidence_type":"Validation against team physicians","relevance":"Missing public records and diagnostic validity","claim":"Media records included missing and incorrect injury information, with better agreement for some severe types.","limitation":"Findings are source- and setting-specific, not a universal correction factor."},{"id":"hoenig2022","number":8,"label":"Hoenig et al., 2022","authors":["Tim Hoenig","Pascal Edouard","Matthias Krause","Deeksha Malhan","Angela Relógio","Astrid Junge","Karsten Hollander"],"year":2022,"title":"Analysis of more than 20,000 injuries in European professional football by using a citizen science-based approach: An opportunity for epidemiological research?","journal":"Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport","volume":"25","issue":"4","pages":"300–305","doi":"10.1016/j.jsams.2021.11.038","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2021.11.038","verification_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34916169/","evidence_type":"Retrospective public-database comparison","relevance":"Transfermarkt selection and recording limitations","claim":"The public archive showed lower injury recording and a higher severe-injury proportion than comparator sources.","limitation":"Does not independently establish the upstream provenance or accuracy of the current Kaggle version."},{"id":"ausderfuenten2023","number":9,"label":"Aus der Fünten et al., 2023","authors":["Karen Aus der Fünten","Tobias Tröß","Abed Hadji","Florian Beaudouin","Ida Bo Steendahl","Tim Meyer"],"year":2023,"title":"Epidemiology of Football Injuries of the German Bundesliga: A Media-Based, Prospective Analysis over 7 Consecutive Seasons","journal":"Sports Medicine - Open","volume":"9","issue":"1","pages":"20","doi":"10.1186/s40798-023-00563-x","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40798-023-00563-x","verification_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36867257/","evidence_type":"Prospective structured media surveillance","relevance":"Protocol and multi-source recording","claim":"A defined multi-source protocol can support league-wide surveillance while retaining diagnosis limitations.","limitation":"A downloaded event archive does not recreate its prospective collection and exposure procedures."},{"id":"ardern2016","number":10,"label":"Ardern et al., 2016","authors":["Clare L. Ardern","Philip Glasgow","Anthony Schneiders","Erik Witvrouw","Benjamin Clarsen","Ann Cools","Boris Gojanovic","Steffan Griffin","Karim M. Khan","Håvard Moksnes","Stephen A. Mutch","Nicola Phillips","Gustaaf Reurink","Robin Sadler","Karin Grävare Silbernagel","Kristian Thorborg","Arnlaug Wangensteen","Kevin E. Wilk","Mario Bizzini"],"year":2016,"title":"2016 Consensus statement on return to sport from the First World Congress in Sports Physical Therapy, Bern","journal":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":"50","issue":"14","pages":"853–864","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2016-096278","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2016-096278","verification_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27226389/","evidence_type":"Return-to-sport consensus","relevance":"Distinct return milestones and endpoint meaning","claim":"Return to sport involves a progression and multifactorial shared decisions.","limitation":"A recorded interval end does not establish medical clearance or return to performance."},{"id":"ekstrand2011","number":11,"label":"Ekstrand, Hägglund and Waldén, 2011","authors":["Jan Ekstrand","Martin Hägglund","Markus Waldén"],"year":2011,"title":"Epidemiology of muscle injuries in professional football (soccer)","journal":"American Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":"39","issue":"6","pages":"1226–1232","doi":"10.1177/0363546510395879","url":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0363546510395879","verification_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21335353/","evidence_type":"Prospective medical-staff cohort","relevance":"Muscle injury consequences and clinical reinjury","claim":"Muscle injuries produced substantial absence and clinically defined reinjuries had longer absences than index injuries.","limitation":"Repeated free-text labels do not reproduce clinical reinjury definitions."},{"id":"bengtsson2025","number":12,"label":"Bengtsson et al., 2025","authors":["Håkan Bengtsson","Martin Hägglund","Jan Ekstrand","Anna Hallén","Markus Waldén"],"year":2025,"title":"No major changes in injury incidence in European club football during the 2022/23 FIFA World Cup season: a subanalysis of the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study","journal":"BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine","volume":"11","issue":"3","pages":"e002772","doi":"10.1136/bmjsem-2025-002772","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2025-002772","verification_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40909192/","evidence_type":"Prospective cohort subanalysis","relevance":"Exposure-based calendar interpretation","claim":"The study found no major overall change in incidence during the World Cup season versus its historical comparator, with setting-specific nuances.","limitation":"Does not show that congestion is harmless in every setting or explain this archive's monthly counts."}]}