Despite the importance of football as an effective means of developing physical
activity and fitness, routine data of football-related injuries are either
inadequate or underreported, particularly in Nigeria. To develop an
understanding of the football-related injuries and determine the prospects for
prevention, logical and useful information specifying the occurrence of these
incidents is necessary. Using a content analysis of 94 football-related news
articles, this study identified the most commonly reported football-related
injuries in Nigerian newspapers and determined their extent of coverage from
agenda-setting perspectives. Altogether, five national newspapers with the
highest readership and online popularity were selected using purposive
sampling. Only football-related news articles were collected from the respective
websites of the newspapers using internet-based searches between January
2015 and September 2019.The findings showed thatknee, ankle, and hamstring
are the most commonly affected locations in football-related injuries according
to the news reports.This study shows that media-based analysis of footballrelated injuries could supplement other methods, such as prospective and
retrospective analyses, particularly in the Nigerian context.