Given their area of competence and activity, as well as their continuous research to improve and promote the sports medicine, SANTY orthopedic center and Albert TRILLAT center of Lyon, supported by Olympique Lyonnais, have decided to join forces in a common structure named Académie Médicale de Football de Lyon. Thanks to its know-how of the specialists, the AMFL proposes multiple services including medical prevention, clinical diagnosis, medical treatment, as well as education and research.

In October 2012, the AMFL received accreditation as FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence. By awarding this label, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) recommends the institution to the world football community as an elite medical center dedicated to the footballers and whose expertise in specialized services is a reference.

The AMFL is the first center in France who has received this FIFA label.

The particularity of this new structure is the association of first-rate experts specialized in all the major medical issues of a footballer and to provide the most effective and appropriate services in:

• Sports Medicine
• Physiology
• Rheumatology
• Orthopedic Surgery
• Radiology: MRI Scanners, musculoskeletal radiologists
• Cardiology stress test
• Nutrition
• Rehabilitation: physical therapists, physical rehabilitation, personal trainers
• Infectious Diseases

The AMFL will collaborate with the 30 other centers accredited by FIFA as FIFA Medical Centers and thus initiate new works about prevention of injuries, treatment in musculo-tendinous lesion and also the treatment of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament in the amateur and professional football players.