The 10th UEFA Medical Symposium will take place from 2 to 4 February 2027 at The Convention Centre Dublin, Ireland. Under the theme “Football Together for Health,” the three-day meeting brings football medical officers, clinicians, physiotherapists, researchers, sports scientists and performance professionals together around player health. UEFA and European Football Clubs are involved in organising the symposium, with the Football Association of Ireland and Irish Football Association as joint hosts.
The published provisional program combines plenary discussions with parallel streams, expert question-and-answer sessions, practical learning and poster presentations. Day one examines the medical journey of younger, senior and retiring players, infectious-disease prevention in team settings, brain care and concussion assessment, injury-risk screening and cardiac care. The cardiac stream considers implantable defibrillators, screening and caring for players with cardiac abnormalities. The brain-care sessions connect youth heading, current evidence and real-time in-match concussion decisions.
Day two expands the discussion to shared decisions and the player’s voice, fitness coaching, injury management, menstrual health, pregnancy and motherhood in professional football. Leadership sessions sit alongside therapeutic-use exemptions, the prohibited list, dried-blood-spot testing and preventing accidental doping. Pelvic-floor health includes a practical session from 15:50 to 16:30 on 3 February, while a parallel stream considers pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management and its ethical challenges.
Day three addresses continuity of medical care between clubs and national teams, player transfers and the UEFA Medical Platform. Further expert sessions cover supplements and contamination risks, pelvic-floor health, beliefs and performance, followed by a plenary block on defining, measuring and applying training-load monitoring. All published timed items are indexed with their original tracks; the organiser notes that sessions and timings may change. Where the source contains overlapping timings, these are preserved rather than silently corrected.
The poster abstract call accepted scientific studies and case studies across Clinical Care, Player Wellbeing, Women’s Health, Anti-Doping, Youth & Development and Other topics. Its extended deadline was 30 September 2026, so it is closed at the time of this listing. Acceptance notifications are scheduled for 28 October and accepted authors must register by 18 November 2026. Registration is available through the official portal. Haleon is displayed as a medical partner, not an assumed accreditation provider.
No confirmed individual speaker roster or program PDF was retrievable from the official speaker page, and no fee or credit award is guessed. The symposium is filed under Physiotherapy with Sports Medicine as a searchable topic because it is a multidisciplinary football-health meeting rather than a dedicated surgical congress.
