Table 1.

Summary of the main additions and modifications to the IOC consensus statement¹³ relevant to football

Topic	Amendments
Sport, athlete and competition	Football, player and match
Mechanism of injury	Football-specific player actions to be reported for sudden-onset injuries
Injury diagnosis	Hip and groin categorised separately (and not combined), and adding complete and partial tendon avulsions to the descriptive notes for tendon rupture
Table 6	Adding percentage to the absolute number of injuries and to report the IQR for median time-loss days (not the CI)
Table 6	Less focus on upper limb injuries and more focus on lower limb injuries
Injury severity categories	0 days, 1–3 days, 4–7 days, 8–28 days, 29–90 days, 91–180 days and >180 days
Return to football	The date when the injured player returns to full unrestricted team training without modifications in duration and/or activities
Match exposure	Organised scheduled match play between opposing teams (not including internal training matches within the same team/club)
Prematch warm-up	Reported as a separate training category
Postmatch cool-down	Reported as other training
Rehabilitation sessions	Excluded from training exposure
Expressing risk	Reporting measures of occurrence
Players (according to age)	Adults or youths
Players (according to contract)	Amateurs or professionals
Players (non-organised)	Recreational players
Playing level	International league ranking (where accessible) and actual playing division (out of the total number of divisions in the league system) to be reported

IOC, International Olympic Committee.