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ArticleSports (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Return-to-Play Timeline and Recovery Predictors After COVID-19 Infection in Elite Football Players.

Agnes Sziva, Zsuzsanna Kives, Zsolt Szelid

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Article in Sports (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Agnes SzivaDoctoral School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pécs, 7622 Pécs, Hungary.ORCID 0009-0007-7188-3620
Zsuzsanna KivesInstitute for Health Insurance, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pécs, 7622 Pécs, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-3698-8466
Zsolt SzelidHungarian Football Association, 1112 Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0009-0005-6391-9836

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pandemic period significantly impacted professional football, leading to mandatory SARS-CoV-2 testing and quarantine. Our study aimed to examine the factors influencing time of recovery after a positive test, including return-to-training (RTT) and return-to-first-match (RTFM) of male football players in a first-division Hungarian team between 8 May 2020 and 30 June 2022. Infection was determined using mandatory RT-PCR testing 3 times per week, which later decreased to 1 to 2 times per week, in 55 elite players. A self-administered questionnaire was utilized based on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services symptom list and modified with relevant factors of return-to-play in football. The incidence of SARS-CoV-2-positive players in the three consecutive years was 5.26; 21.43 and 45.71%. Mild symptoms were present in test-positive players, completing the questionnaire (

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COVID-19elite footballperformance recoveryreturn-to-playSARS-CoV-2 infection

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PMID40423283
PMCPMC12115620

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