FA task force to commission further research into dementia risk for footballers

World Cup winner Nobby Stiles had been living with dementia for well over a decade before his death last year (Martin Rickett/PA)

New studies will be commissioned into what causes the increased risk of dementia among professional footballers, the Football Association has said.

The increased risk was established by the 2019 FIELD study, conducted by academics at the University of Glasgow, which found footballers were three and a half times more likely to die of neurodegenerative disease than age-matched members of the general population.