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AMERICAN FOOTBALL
INSURANCE

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specialist American Football Insurance in minutes

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Smart Money People Award for SportsCover Direct
Feefo 2025
4.8/5

Independent Service Rating based on
5047 verified reviews.

Smart Money People Award for SportsCover Direct
Feefo 2025
4.8/5

Independent Service Rating based on
5047 verified reviews.

Our American Football Insurance policy options

Put simply, we offer three different policy options…

1. Travel Insurance

If you're going abroad to play American Football, whether that be for leisure or competition, our Sports Travel Insurance is available. Our policy includes cover for medical costs, trip cancellation and curtailment, plus more.

2. Travel Insurance Bolt-On

If you already have a travel insurance policy in place with another provider such as your bank but it does not include cover for playing American Football, we can provide a bolt-on style of protection for your trip.

3. Sports Accident Insurance

Our Sports Accident Insurance is designed to protect you whilst playing American Football in the UK, whether that be for leisure or competition. The policy provides a range of benefits including personal accident and income protection.

Our claims record

HIGHEST PAID CLAIM

£174,984.64

 FOR AN INSURANCE CLAIM**

AVERAGE PAY OUT

£1,295.07

FOR EACH INSURANCE CLAIM**

OUR AVERAGE CLAIMS RATING

4.9/5

ACCORDING TO OUR FEEFO SCORE***

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Why choose us

30 Years Experience

We have been providing tailored Sports Insurance policies for over 30 years, and today protect more than 57,000 customers a year.

Professional Claims Handling

We work with leading claims handlers to make sure our customers experience a prompt and professional service when making a claim.

Underwritten by Experts

We’re pleased to offer tailored cover from AXA XL, a leading provider of insurance in the sports and leisure industry.

UK Based Customer Service Team

Our highly experienced Sales team are available to help support you with any questions that you might have.

5-Star Customer Service Rating

Thousands of happy customers have awarded us a 5-star customer service score on the independent feedback platform, Feefo.

500+ Sports Covered

Being a specialist in Sports Insurance, we provide cover for over 500 different sports & activities, far more than other providers.

What is American Football Insurance?

We can provide comprehensive insurance cover to amateur American Football players or teams in the UK. Whether you or your team are playing in the UK or abroad, we can offer a tailored policy to cover you.

If you’re travelling abroad, you can take advantage of our Sports Travel Insurance policy, which will not only cover the standard travel essentials such as medical emergencies and repatriation, flight delays, cancellation and lost baggage, but also protects you should you get injured whilst playing American Football and need medical attention. 

For football players in the UK, our Sports Accident insurance will likely to be better suited. The policy provides football injury insurance in the form of personal accident cover, plus income protection for those that need it.

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What does American Football Insurance cover? 

American Football Insurance is primarily designed to financially protect you against the costs of receiving medical treatment due to an injury occurring whilst playing.   

Depending on whether you are playing the sport in the UK or abroad, our American Football Insurance can also cover you for trip cancellation, lost baggage and equipment, and income protection.


Frequently Asked Questions

Within our Sports Accident Insurance there is a player to player exclusion under the Personal Liability section of the cover which means that if you injure another player when playing within the normal rules of the sport, for example as a result of a tackle, you would not have any liability cover – i.e. you would not be covered for any claims made against you by the other player. You would be covered for your liability if, for example, you kicked a ball through a window, or it injured a member of the public.

However, the above player to player exclusion does not apply to our Sports Travel and Activity TopUp policies. Third-party liability incidents cover can be covered within the usual terms, conditions and exclusions of the policy.

Standard travel insurance policies do not always cover collision sports. Our Sports Travel Insurance is specifically designed to cover over 500 high risk activities such as bungee jumping, skateboarding, ski-acrobatics and many more.

No, unfortunately our policies can not provide cover for professionals. A professional is any person who derives more than £5,000 income per calendar year from their participation in a sport or activity. Benefits received such as free or reduced-cost accommodation, entry fees or clothing are not considered to be income.

Also any person who has a contract of employment (paid or unpaid), a sports scholarship or where their full-time occupation is undertaking the sport / activity.

Yes, our American Football Travel Insurance can generally be taken out even if you have a medical condition. We can almost always offer cover at no extra cost, but occasionally our underwriters may apply special terms if you subsequently needed to make a claim relating to your condition.

Our policies will cover anyone up to the age of 74 at the time of purchase. An applicant aged 75 or over cannot be covered.

* 10% online discount applies to our Sports Travel Insurance and Activity TopUp policies only. 

** Data relates to all SportsCover Direct Insurance claims from Jan 2010 to Dec 2024 inclusive.

*** Feefo rating relates to all SportsCover Direct Insurance claims review score from Jan 2024 to Dec 2024 inclusive. Feefo score rounded up to 1 decimal place.

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