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specialist Football Insurance online in minutes

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specialist Football Insurance online in minutes

10% OFF ONLINE*

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

Independent Service Rating based on
5042 verified reviews.

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

Independent Service Rating based on
5042 verified reviews.

Our Football Insurance policy options

Put simply, we offer three different policy options…

1. Travel Insurance

If you're going abroad to play 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 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 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.

Football Team Insurance

We can provide comprehensive insurance to amateur UK football players or teams. Whether you or your team are playing in the UK or travelling abroad to play, we can provide a policy to cover you.

Our Sports Travel Insurance policy 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 football and need medical attention. 

If you are playing football 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.

Goalkeeper on his knee

What does our Football Insurance cover?

If you or your team are playing football in the UK, our policy will provide the following benefits:

  • Permanent disablement
  • Accidental death
  • Broken bones
  • Physiotherapy
  • Optional 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 hazardous activities. 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 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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