Match Calendar: "Professional football is failing to apply required safety standards" (FIFPRO)

"The professional football sector is failing in its duty to apply required safety standards and, as a result, is violating existing legal frameworks at a European and global level," said FIFPRO, which published a report entitled "Impact of Workload on Football Players' Health and Wellbeing: Medical and Legal Perspectives" on 20/11/2024.

The document, from Belgian University Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), commissioned by the players' union, "will be submitted as evidence to the joint complaint by FIFPRO Europe, European Leagues and LALIGA to the European Commission against FIFA over its conduct concerning the imposition of the international match calendar, including decisions relating to the FIFA Club World Cup 2025" and "also serves as supporting evidence to a separate legal action against FIFA that has been filed by the PFA, UNFP and AIC, with the support of FIFPRO Europe, at the Brussels Commercial Court."

The report, conducted by university professors Frank Hendrickx (an expert in employment law) and Lode Godderis (an expert in occupational health and safety), sets…