Project ACL: WSL clubs to take part in pioneering injuries research project

• Three-year project will focus on professional women’s football
• PFA, Fifpro, Nike and Leeds Beckett University team up

Women’s Super League clubs are to be the subject of a three-year research initiative designed to find ways of reducing the incidence of anterior cruciate ligament injuries.

Although such knee ligament tears and ruptures afflict male as well as well as female footballers, they are between two and six times more likely to occur in women than men.

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