International Medical Football Centre (IMFC)

This football medicine website is designed for the football teams' physiotherapists. The website is hosted by FC Shakhtar and aimed to constant teaching, comprehensive analysis of complex cases and information exchange. Imfc.shakhtar.com work is coordinating by:

The Spanish Association of Football Teams� Doctors (AEMEF),
FC Deportivo La Coruña,
European Federation of Sports Traumatology (EFOST),
FC Internazionale Milano.

Co-directors :
Jordi Ardevol (AEMEF),
Benazzo Francesco (EFOST),
Paco Biosca (FC Shakhtar),
César Cobián (FC Deportivo),
Bryan English (FC Chelsea),
Franco Combi (Inter FC).
Expert groups in different fields of medicine from the USA, Japan, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy and Spain contribute to the content of the website.

Currently the access to the International Medical Football Centre website is limited only because its content is of a purely professional nature and intended for medical experts and co-directors only.


To gain access you have to
- be a specialist in one of the following fields: basic sciences, physiology, prevention, rehabilitation, Traumatology.
- or be a football team physio
- contact FC Shakhtar Medical department secretary for approval

Contact information: pacobiosca@shakhtar.com, a.filimonova@shakhtar.com