Injury analysis: World-first insight into how injury spells affect player valuations

Injury-prone players are expensive in many aspects for clubs, but very little research has analysed how being forced off the field impacts players’ market value.
This analysis of over 12,000 players provides an insight into how perceived market values of footballers are affected by injury spells of varying length.
Why it matters: Players are the most valuable assets in a club, but information about what happens to their value could be pivotal data for clubs when budgeting for physiotherapy and rehabilitation staff.
The perspective: Player injury is a broad term, but one kind stands out as having the greatest impact on the value of a player - knee injuries.

It is no bold claim that injury spells – especially long ones – can be detrimental to a football player and their club.

For the club, wages are poured down the drain while additional rehabilitation investments must be made to get the player back on the field. For the player, injuries dent their form and potentially leave them with career-long disadvantages.

Despite these massive consequences, little structured research has been dedicated to examining the extent to which in

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