In 2019, a study found professional footballers were more likely to suffer from neurodegenerative brain disease. Guidance for amateurs is "10 headers per session and only one session a week where heading practice is included". "Based on those early findings, which showed the majority of headers involve low forces, the initial focus of the guidance [for professional football] will be on headers that involve higher forces. "It will be recommended that a maximum of 10 higher force headers are carried out in any training week. "Our heading guidance now reaches across all players, at all levels of the game," said FA chief executive Mark Bullingham.

Source: BBC July 28, 2021 09:32 UTC