Football Travel Insurance for Players Training & Competing Abroad
If football is the main reason for your trip, standard travel insurance often falls short. Our football travel insurance is designed specifically for individual players travelling abroad to train, compete or prepare for the season ahead.
Whether you are heading overseas for a training camp, pre-season tour or football tournament, this policy provides specialist sports cover while you play. That includes protection for football-related injuries, essential kit and unexpected trip disruption, so you can focus on your performance, not the small print.
What football activities are covered?
Our football travel insurance is designed for individual players travelling abroad to train or compete, with cover applying when football is the main purpose of your trip rather than an incidental activity. This includes overseas training camps and football academies, pre-season trips, amateur and semi-professional tournaments, friendly and competitive matches, as well as structured coaching sessions, warm-ups and football-specific conditioning. Provided you are travelling as an individual player and the activity is appropriate for your experience or ability level, you are covered while training or competing abroad.
Ask yourself two questions about your current travel insurance –
Does it cover me if the primary purpose of my trip is to play football?
e.g. pre-season training camp
Does my travel insurance cover me for overseas football tournaments?
e.g. the Gothia Cup
Football travel insurance vs standard travel insurance
Most standard travel insurance policies are not built for footballers. If football is the main reason for your trip, it is often excluded or only covered on a very limited basis.
Our football travel insurance is different. It is designed specifically for players travelling abroad to train or compete, providing cover that reflects the realities of playing football overseas.
With football travel insurance, you benefit from:
- Medical cover for football-related injuries sustained while training or competing
- Protection for essential football kit and equipment
- Trip cancellation and curtailment cover if injury or illness prevents you from playing
- Cover that applies when football is the primary purpose of your trip
- This means fewer grey areas, fewer assumptions, and cover that works when you actually need it.
Simple cover, built around how football trips actually work.
FLEXIBLE COVER OPTIONS
Sports trips rarely fit neatly into standard travel insurance. That’s why our policies include flexible options for couples, families and young athletes.
Spectator-only cover
Family members travelling to support an athlete don’t need to pay for sports participation cover they won’t use.
Accompanied minors
Parents can arrange cover for accompanied minors without needing to insure themselves on the same policy, provided the child is travelling with a responsible adult.
Couples & families
Reduced pricing for additional travellers because more people on one policy doesn’t automatically mean double the risk.
Annual or Short Term
A Travel lots, pay less
Committing to an annual policy can often work out better value than buying cover for each trip, while still keeping you protected for every weekend football camp or week-long holiday abroad.
Plus, our policies can cover multiple sports, so you could be set for your summer football tournament and still have cover ready for your winter skiing trip; no last-minute insurance scramble required.
B No commitment
Not travelling all the time, or not ready to sign up for a full year? No worries. Our short-term, single-trip policies might cost a little more per trip, but they give you all the flexibility you need and the same handy suite of covers as our annual travellers.
Football Travel Insurance Cover summary
Travel Insurance benefits |
Limit |
| Emergency Medical Expenses | £10,000,000 |
| Emergency Repatriation | £10,000,000 |
| Trip Cancellation | £2,500 to £10,000 |
| Dental Treatment | £250 |
| Hospital Benefit | £500 |
| Baggage | £2,500 |
| Travel Documents | £500 |
| Delayed Baggage | £250 |
| Personal Money | £500 |
| Departure Delay | £250 |
| Holiday Abandonment | £5,000 |
| Missed Departure | £1,000 |
| Missed Connections | £20,000 |
| Personal Accident | £20,000 |
| Death Benefit | £10,000 |
| Personal Liability | £2,000,000 |
| Car Hire Excess Protection (optional) | £5,000 |
Sports covers | Limit |
| Owned or Hired Sports Equipment | £500 |
| Sports Equipment Upgrade (optional) | £2500 to £5,000 |
| Sports Equipment Emergency Hire | £500 |
| Sports Equipment Repatriation | £250 |
| Sports Activity Interruption | £500 |
| Race/Event Entry Fees | £750 |
| Gadget Cover | £2,000 |
Welcome to our Football travel insurance FAQ section
We can hopefully answer all your questions related to our football travel insurance. If you can’t find the answer you are looking for after looking through the FAQs, you can call us Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. We typically answer the phone in under 30 seconds.
Yes. This policy is designed specifically for situations where football is the main reason you are travelling abroad, including training and competing.
Yes. Cover applies while training, warming up and competing, provided the activity is football-related and appropriate for your level of experience.
Yes. Football tournaments abroad are covered for individual players, including amateur and competitive events.
Yes. Essential football kit and equipment are covered under the policy, subject to the policy limits and conditions.
No. This is an individual travel insurance policy. Each player must purchase their own cover.
Yes. Parents can arrange cover for accompanied minors without needing to insure themselves on the same policy, provided the child is travelling with a responsible adult.
Yes. Parents can arrange football travel insurance for accompanied minors without needing to insure themselves on the same policy, provided the child is travelling with a responsible adult. This is ideal if your own annual travel insurance already covers you, but won’t cover your child for football training camps, tournaments or sports participation abroad.
No. If parents, family members or supporters are travelling purely to watch a football tournament, training camp or match abroad, they can choose spectator-only cover instead of paying for football participation cover they won’t use.
