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@article{fuller2006,
  author = {Colin W. Fuller and Jan Ekstrand and Astrid Junge and Thor Einar Andersen and Roald Bahr and Jiri Dvorak and Martin Hägglund and Paul McCrory and Willem H. Meeuwisse},
  title = {Consensus statement on injury definitions and data collection procedures in studies of football (soccer) injuries},
  journal = {British Journal of Sports Medicine},
  year = {2006},
  volume = {40},
  pages = {193--201},
  doi = {10.1136/bjsm.2005.025270},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsm.2005.025270},
  number = {3}
}

@article{bahr2020,
  author = {Roald Bahr and Ben Clarsen and Wayne Derman and Jiri Dvorak and Carolyn A. Emery and Caroline F. Finch and Martin Hägglund and Astrid Junge and Simon Kemp and Karim M. Khan and Stephen W. Marshall and Willem Meeuwisse and Margo Mountjoy and John W. Orchard and Babette Pluim and Kenneth L. Quarrie and Bruce Reider and Martin Schwellnus and Torbjørn Soligard and Keith A. Stokes and Toomas Timpka and Evert Verhagen and Abhinav Bindra and Richard Budgett and Lars Engebretsen and Uğur Erdener and Karim Chamari},
  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},
  year = {2020},
  volume = {54},
  pages = {372--389},
  doi = {10.1136/bjsports-2019-101969},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2019-101969},
  number = {7}
}

@article{walden2023,
  author = {Markus Waldén and Margo Mountjoy and Alan McCall and Andreas Serner and Andrew Massey and Johannes L. Tol and Roald Bahr and Michel D'Hooghe and Natália Bittencourt and Francesco Della Villa and Michiko Dohi and Gregory Dupont and Mark Fulcher and Dina Christina Christa Janse van Rensburg and Donna Lu and Thor Einar Andersen},
  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},
  year = {2023},
  volume = {57},
  pages = {1341--1350},
  doi = {10.1136/bjsports-2022-106405},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2022-106405},
  number = {21}
}

@article{bahr2018,
  author = {Roald Bahr and Benjamin Clarsen and Jan Ekstrand},
  title = {Why we should focus on the burden of injuries and illnesses, not just their incidence},
  journal = {British Journal of Sports Medicine},
  year = {2018},
  volume = {52},
  pages = {1018--1021},
  doi = {10.1136/bjsports-2017-098160},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2017-098160},
  number = {16}
}

@article{hagglund2013,
  author = {Martin Hägglund and Markus Waldén and Henrik Magnusson and Karolina Kristenson and Håkan Bengtsson and Jan Ekstrand},
  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},
  year = {2013},
  volume = {47},
  pages = {738--742},
  doi = {10.1136/bjsports-2013-092215},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2013-092215},
  number = {12}
}

@article{ekstrand2023,
  author = {Jan Ekstrand and Håkan Bengtsson and Markus Waldén and Michael Davison and Karim M. Khan and Martin Hägglund},
  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},
  year = {2023},
  volume = {57},
  pages = {292--298},
  doi = {10.1136/bjsports-2021-105407},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2021-105407},
  number = {5}
}

@article{krutsch2020,
  author = {Volker Krutsch and Stephan Grechenig and Oliver Loose and Leonard Achenbach and Johannes Zellner and Heiko Striegel and Volker Alt and Johannes Weber and Markus Braun and Stephan Gerling and Werner Krutsch},
  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},
  year = {2020},
  volume = {11},
  pages = {123--131},
  doi = {10.2147/OAJSM.S251081},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.2147/OAJSM.S251081}
}

@article{hoenig2022,
  author = {Tim Hoenig and Pascal Edouard and Matthias Krause and Deeksha Malhan and Angela Relógio and Astrid Junge and Karsten Hollander},
  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},
  year = {2022},
  volume = {25},
  pages = {300--305},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jsams.2021.11.038},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2021.11.038},
  number = {4}
}

@article{ausderfuenten2023,
  author = {Karen Aus der Fünten and Tobias Tröß and Abed Hadji and Florian Beaudouin and Ida Bo Steendahl and Tim Meyer},
  title = {Epidemiology of Football Injuries of the German Bundesliga: A Media-Based, Prospective Analysis over 7 Consecutive Seasons},
  journal = {Sports Medicine - Open},
  year = {2023},
  volume = {9},
  pages = {20},
  doi = {10.1186/s40798-023-00563-x},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s40798-023-00563-x},
  number = {1}
}

@article{ardern2016,
  author = {Clare L. Ardern and Philip Glasgow and Anthony Schneiders and Erik Witvrouw and Benjamin Clarsen and Ann Cools and Boris Gojanovic and Steffan Griffin and Karim M. Khan and Håvard Moksnes and Stephen A. Mutch and Nicola Phillips and Gustaaf Reurink and Robin Sadler and Karin Grävare Silbernagel and Kristian Thorborg and Arnlaug Wangensteen and Kevin E. Wilk and Mario Bizzini},
  title = {2016 Consensus statement on return to sport from the First World Congress in Sports Physical Therapy, Bern},
  journal = {British Journal of Sports Medicine},
  year = {2016},
  volume = {50},
  pages = {853--864},
  doi = {10.1136/bjsports-2016-096278},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2016-096278},
  number = {14}
}

@article{ekstrand2011,
  author = {Jan Ekstrand and Martin Hägglund and Markus Waldén},
  title = {Epidemiology of muscle injuries in professional football (soccer)},
  journal = {American Journal of Sports Medicine},
  year = {2011},
  volume = {39},
  pages = {1226--1232},
  doi = {10.1177/0363546510395879},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0363546510395879},
  number = {6}
}

@article{bengtsson2025,
  author = {Håkan Bengtsson and Martin Hägglund and Jan Ekstrand and Anna Hallén and Markus Waldén},
  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},
  year = {2025},
  volume = {11},
  pages = {e002772},
  doi = {10.1136/bmjsem-2025-002772},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2025-002772},
  number = {3}
}