EPL pays highest price for injuries

Players in Germany's Bundesliga are most likely to be injured among Europe's top five domestic leagues, but the English Premier League bears the most injury-related costs, according to a report published on Oct 16.

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The fourth edition of insurance firm Howden's Men's European Football Injury Index charts the upward trend in injuries recorded in the Premier League, Bundesliga, Spanish La Liga, French Ligue 1 and Italy's Serie A, with a combined 4,123 during the 2023-24 season - a 4 per cent rise on 2022-23 and 37 per cent more than in 2020-21.

Injuries cost clubs a combined €732 million (S$1.04 billion) last season in wages paid to players while out of action. Since the report's first edition in 2020-21, there have been 14,292 injuries in Europe's top leagues, costing clubs €2.3 billion in players' salaries.