AFL research program strategy for 2012–16

Abstract

Introduction: Australian Football has established itself as a world leader with injury prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, sport science, coaching, umpiring and volunteer administrators. The AFL Research Board was formed in 1999 to administer the selection of research priorities, allocation of research funding, organization of industry sport science and medicine events and to guide individual research projects. The AFL has an organisation wide five-year strategy for the period 2012–16, and the AFL Research Board has recently undergone the process of developing its own strategy to match the objectives of the broader AFL framework.