The report highlights the burden on men's players involved in multiple international tournaments that endangers their welfare, performance and career prospects.
Workplace Safety Report: The impact of violence towards footballers in their workplace
The report features the insights of more than two-thirds of the global FIFPRO membership and builds on previous publications focusing on other safety concerns in the workplace as well as research in domestic playing markets by player unions.
Reports
Postpartum Return to Play Guide
FIFPRO has launched a 48-page guide to help professional footballers, as well as their families, team staff and other football stakeholders, better understand and manage pregnancy and the phase after childbirth.
FIFPRO Asia/Oceania: Lessons from the AFC Women's Club Championship
The report from FIFPRO Asia/Oceania gathers insights from 88 players who competed in last season’s invitational tournament.
Post-Tournament Blues: Understanding Post-Tournament Mental Health
Post-tournament blues is the emotional drop that happens to players after a big competition, when they haven’t had the opportunity to fully process their experiences. This report looks at players' experience of post-tournament mental health.
New Maternity Protections for Professional Women’s Players
This report aims to analyse the maternity protections introduced in FIFA’s Regulations on the Status and Transfers of Players (RSTP) for professional women’s players, which came into force on 1 June 2024.
Multiple Job-Holding in Elite Women's Football
This report from FIFPRO, FIFA and Australia's Edith Cowen University details how most top-flight women players are unable to earn enough through football to fully sustain their livelihoods.
FIFPRO Asia/Oceania AFC Champions League Analysis Report
The report from FIFPRO Asia/Oceania analysing the Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) flagship club competition, the AFC Champions League (ACL), has delivered extensive insights into the experiences for players and clubs participating in the competition.
FIFA/FIFPRO Social Media Protection Service Report: 2023 Women’s World Cup
The report represents a summary analysis of all monitoring and moderation activities carried out by the Social Media Protection Service (SMPS) across the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023.
Guidelines and Mitigation Strategies for Hot Conditions in Professional Football
Elevated heat, humidity, and solar load combined with low air movement independently and additively impair performance, increase the perception of effort and the risk of heat-related illnesses.
2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Workload Journey Report
The report underlines how the domestic and international calendars in the women’s game remain uneven and fragmented, leaving many players in the countries where football is less developed forced to move abroad to improve, or face the prospect of not having enough matches to reach their potential.
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Qualifying Conditions Report
The report underscores the fragmented nature of Women's World Cup qualifying, highlighting vastly different pathways and conditions for players competing at the highest level in their confederations.
FIFA/FIFPRO Social Media Protection Service Report: 2022 World Cup
FIFA and FIFPRO have released a report into the levels of online abuse aimed at participants during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, with England v France quarter-final causing the largest spike.
