WE ARE FOOTBALL 2027: Medical Department & Injury Prevention

Medical Department Overview

The Medical screen is your injury command center in WE ARE FOOTBALL 2027. It lists every unavailable player across the first and second teams with position, strength rating, injury type, prognosis, recovery progress, and whether you have already visited them.

At the top sits your club doctor. A volunteer fills the role by default — hiring a better-qualified physician improves treatment outcomes across the entire squad. Treat medical staffing with the same priority as coaches in our /guides/beginner-guide/.

Injury Severity and Long-Term Impact

Not every knock costs the same number of weeks. Minor issues like bruises or short illnesses resolve quickly; structural damage can erase half a season or more.

Short absences (low concern)

Muscle bruises, minor knocks, and brief illnesses typically return within days. These rarely affect market value or development curves.

Season-altering injuries (critical)

Cruciate ligament ruptures, Achilles tendon tears, cartilage damage, and major bone fractures often sideline players for more than half a season. During that window:

• Level progression stalls or reverses.
• Resale value drops unless the player is very young with high potential.
• Squad planning must account for replacement signings or tactical reshapes — see /tactics/best-tactics-formations/ for emergency shape changes.

Injury susceptibility on the player file

Each profile displays an injury susceptibility bar. Elevated readings mean more frequent absences even with identical training load. Factor susceptibility into contract length and rotation priority, especially for aging squads.

Staff, Buildings, and Recovery Acceleration

Medical performance combines employee quality and club infrastructure. Neither alone covers a congested calendar.

Hire a stronger club doctor

Replacing the volunteer doctor is the fastest single upgrade. Better staff shorten prognosis bars on the medical screen and improve day-to-day recovery ticks. The head of the medical department is also the line item most managers miss: the tutorial’s staff walkthrough explains that this role reduces the loss of form that follows an injury, not only the layoff itself — see /guides/staff-hr-guide/ for every department head’s effect.

Build prevention and rehab facilities

Two building lines matter:

1. Injury-prevention facilities at the training ground reduce how often sessions produce new casualties.
2. Rehabilitation buildings speed recovery once a player is already on the treatment table.

Stack both with upgraded medical staff before accepting a fixture list with mid-week European ties.

Visit injured players

Use Arrange Meeting on the medical screen to wish players a speedy recovery. Visits register in the seasonal medical log and improve player relations — cheap morale insurance during long absences.

Fatigue, Rotation, and Congested Schedules

Injuries rarely happen in isolation. Training hardness, travel comfort, and calendar density all feed the medical report at season end. Which units that hardness dial actually applies, and how few of them a semi-pro squad is allowed, is its own screen: the training plan and drill guide lists the units and the three scope tiers.

Training intensity red lines

Players with high determination push through yellow satisfaction and orange tactical-training bars. Pair hard sessions with recovery days after league matches — the rotation rhythm described in /guides/beginner-guide/ keeps stamina out of the danger zone.

Rotate before the medical screen fills

During English weeks, bench four to five regular starters in cup or secondary-competition fixtures. Letting the same eleven absorb every mid-week match is the fastest route to muscle strains that appear on this screen two weeks later.

Travel and preparation (Organization screen)

The linked Organization panel controls travel class and days before the next match:

• Three-star travel keeps top players happy; one-star saves money but hurts mood.
• Two preparation days before the next fixture reduces stress compared to one-day turnarounds — but only matters when you schedule short training camps.
• Bus travel under ~400 km avoids the 2% fitness penalty and €5,000 same-day train fee that annoys squads.

Season events that reset morale

Once per season you can run team-spirit and satisfaction events (full-day appointments) when the squad shows sad smileys. Use them after injury crises or trophy droughts, not as a substitute for rotation.

For youth prospects returning from long layoffs, reintegrate gradually using the development paths in /talents/best-wonderkids-guide/.