As a coach you must accept responsibility for the care and safety of your players. Players and parents have a responsibility for their own protection and safety, their ability to understand what they can do, how they can do it, and whether they are doing it correctly, may be limited. It is your job to help them practice and play as safely as possible.

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The information contained in this section is not meant to be a a substitute for a recognised first aid course. If you don't already have first aid certification, then you should certainly consider gaining a qualification in order to help you deal with any accidents that may happen while you are coaching and to be able to administer basic first aid.

It is important that you are able to recognise an injury when it happens, to be able to stabilise the injury as best you can, and to summon medical assistance if necessary. It is important that you fully understand the limitations of your training and knowledge. If you are not a trained medical professional and are not sure always call the emergency services.

Hopefully you won't have many injuries but if you do you should know how to recognise and treat common soccer injuries.