Corinthians among clubs with most injuries in Brazil over the past 10 years

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·26 December 2025

Corinthians among clubs with most injuries in Brazil over the past 10 years

By Mirella Ramos / Central do Timão Editorial Team

A survey that analyzed injuries recorded in Brazilian football between 2016 and 2025 places Corinthians among the clubs with the highest number of players sidelined due to physical problems during the period. Over the ten seasons evaluated, Timão accumulated 431 injuries and ranked third overall among Série A teams in this regard.

According to ge, the data is part of a statistical database that gathers all medical absences caused by injuries resulting from sports practice in official matches. In the period analyzed, São Paulo leads the ranking with 483 records, followed by Grêmio with 457, while Corinthians closes out the podium.

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Injury peak in 2022

The main outlier for Corinthians during the period was the 2022 season, when the club recorded 64 trips to the medical department, one of the highest numbers ever registered in a single year in the top tier of Brazilian football. That year, Fagner and Willian were the players with the most recurring physical problems, with five absences each.

The most serious case of the season involved midfielder Paulinho, who tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee early in the Brazilian Championship. The player missed 49 matches, making him the Corinthians athlete who missed the most games in 2022 due to injury.

Annual average puts Timão in the top 10

Considering the average number of injuries per season, Corinthians ranks sixth, with 43.1 absences per year over the past decade. This number puts the club ahead of teams like Palmeiras, Flamengo, and Cruzeiro in this specific criterion.

Despite the high frequency of injuries, Corinthians is among the clubs with the shortest average recovery time. In the period analyzed, each injury at Timão resulted, on average, in 31.42 days of absence, one of the lowest rates in Série A. This data indicates that, in general, the physical problems recorded by the club were less severe compared to other teams.

Among the players who have been at Corinthians in the past decade, Ruan Oliveira is the player with the longest accumulated absence due to injury in Brazilian football. Between 2020 and 2024, the midfielder was sidelined for 1,386 days due to successive knee problems. During this period, he played only 32 times for the club.

Although Corinthians appears among the clubs with the most injuries in absolute numbers, Coritiba leads the ranking in annual average, with 48.6 absences per season. Vasco, on the other hand, stands out for the severity of its cases: the club has the highest average recovery time in the country, with almost 50 days per injury, despite being among the teams with the fewest total records.

Thigh and knee lead types of injuries

In the overall panorama of Brazilian football, the thigh was the most affected body region between 2016 and 2025, with more than 3,500 occurrences. Knee injuries come next, followed by ankle and calf. Specialists point to the high physical demands, with sprints and abrupt changes of direction, as determining factors for this scenario.

The ge survey considered only medical absences that prevented the athlete from playing in at least one official match, excluding cases of physical wear, load management, or simple preservation.

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