Prepared in cooperation with Football Benchmark, the 2023/24 Player Workload Monitoring (PWM) report of FIFPRO highlights the burden on players involved in multiple international tournaments that endangers their welfare, performance and career prospects.
Some players are seeing their time off fall to as little as 12% of the calendar year, the equivalent of less than one full day off per week, contravening international Occupational Safety and Health standards, amid a lack of appreciation by competition organizers of their welfare and an absence of coordinated calendar planning.
The report also highlights that an increasing number of players are impacted by extreme match calendar demands and that competition growth is a major risk factor for them. Match load, travel load and other workload statistics are analysed for players representing over 100 leagues and over 130 different nationalities.
