FIFPRO has launched a new free-to-access data platform that monitors match schedules and the workload of players across different competitions.

Clubs and player unions through their representative bodies – ECA and FIFPRO – have developed international guidelines on player health protection during the emergency calendar of football competitions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Men’s professional footballers are facing ever more congested schedules during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kenyan professional footballers, facing increasingly precarious conditions in the game because of the covid-19 pandemic, are being encouraged to plan for their future and explore setting up their own business.

Nahuel Tuya suffered his first panic attack just six days after football was suspended in Uruguay because of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country.

Player unions in seven Latin American and African countries are distributing food packages to professional footballers who have not received their salaries, or had massive pay cuts, after leagues were suspended to stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In these challenging times caused by the COVID-19 virus, the Professional Footballers Association Scotland is one of the national player associations with a support service for players that includes free and confidential advice from counsellors.

Systemic trends in football, accelerated by Covid-19, create both opportunity and uncertainty for the working lives of players. They highlight the need for more quality jobs across markets and competition innovation, resulting in FIFPRO’s commitment to “Shaping our Future” goal number 3: Jobs & Innovation.

FIFPRO notes the accumulated workload for players in the first quarter of European football’s 2020-2021 season and the mental and physical burden they are facing until 2022. The current handling of the match calendar during this emergency period lacks sufficient considerations for their health, well-being and performance and requires an urgent and ongoing revision by competition organisers.

Diana Matheson and Marcel de Jong are the two newest members of the FIFPRO Global Player Council.

More than 150 professional footballers – 90 men and 60 women – have begun participating in a 10-year research project into their health.

FIFPRO is concerned about recent cases of players in the Czech Republic and Italy who have been adversely affected by loans to other clubs.