Injuries are not spread evenly through a football season. This chart shows how they rise and fall month by month across seven European leagues — and lets you look at individual clubs and different kinds of injury.
Each line follows one league across a season, from July (pre-season) to June. Higher means more injuries that month. Hover or tap any point to see the numbers.
Nearly every league peaks in September. Players return from the summer break, fixtures pile up quickly, and bodies that have not been at full match intensity for weeks are suddenly asked to perform. A second, smaller rise usually comes in April, when the season's accumulated load starts to tell. June is almost always empty because there are barely any matches.
Two different datasets, and they answer different questions. Season pattern is the view described above: estimated month-by-month figures showing the shape of a season. Injured right now is a real count of every player listed as injured on a single day, taken from Transfermarkt. The first tells you when injuries tend to happen; the second tells you who is actually missing. Switch between them with the buttons below.
The seasonal figures are estimates, not a count of individual injuries. The published research reports one total per season, so the month-by-month shape is worked out from that total using the seasonal pattern found in medical studies. Treat the shape as reliable and the exact numbers as approximate — there is a fuller explanation below the chart.
The source. Season totals come from the Howden Group Men's European Football Injury Index, published each December, which covers the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1. Its most recent edition recorded 4,456 injuries across those five leagues in 2024/25.
How the monthly figures were produced. Howden publishes one number per season, not one per month. The monthly shape here comes from applying the seasonal distribution reported in the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study to each season's total. So the pattern across the year rests on published research, but any single month's figure is a calculated estimate rather than a tally of real injuries. If you need exact monthly counts, this chart is not the right source.
Two leagues are less certain than the rest. The Eredivisie and Liga Portugal are not covered by Howden at all. Their figures are estimated from published injury-rate research on comparable leagues, and should be treated as more approximate than the other five.
Club-level figures are shared out, not counted. When you look inside a league, each club's numbers are the league total divided up according to that club's injury record in published rankings. They show roughly which squads carry a heavier or lighter burden — they are not that club's actual injury log.
Injury types. The split between muscle, ligament, tendon and the rest comes from the proportions reported in the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study, applied to each league's total. Muscle injuries make up a larger share in the Bundesliga (about half) than elsewhere (about 40%), which is reflected here.
What this cannot tell you. These are counts, not rates — there is no adjustment for how many minutes players were actually on the pitch, so a league with more matches will tend to show more injuries without necessarily being more dangerous. For injury rates per hour played, see the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study directly.
The "injured right now" view is a different thing entirely. It comes from Transfermarkt's injured-players listings for each league, collected on 28 August 2026. These are real individual records — one line per injured player, with their club and what is wrong with them — filtered to clubs actually competing in each league, so players out on loan elsewhere are excluded.
Three things to keep in mind. First, a snapshot over-represents long injuries: a cruciate ligament tear stays visible for months while a minor strain disappears within days, so the mix here is more severe than the mix of injuries a league actually suffers. Second, Transfermarkt records are compiled from press reports rather than club medical records, and roughly a third of entries name only a body part ("knee injury") or say "unknown" — those are shown honestly as "Not specified" rather than being guessed into a category. The Eredivisie is much vaguer than the other leagues in this respect. Third, the figures are frozen at the collection date; they do not update by themselves.