This is an Accepted Manuscript for Epidemiology & Infection. Subject to change during the editing and production process. DOI: 10.1017/S0950268821002065 This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work. Soccer in the time of COVID-19: one year report from an Italian top league club, March 2020 – February 2021 Michele Spinicci 1,2 , Luca Pengue 3 , Dario Bartolozzi 2 , Massimo Quercioli 4 , Francesco Epifani 4 , Simona Pollini 1,5 , Lorenzo Zammarchi 1,2 , Gian Maria Rossolini 1,5 , Alessandro Bartoloni 1,2 1 Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy 2 Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy 3 Sports Medicine Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy 4 Synlab Med, Florence, Italy 5 Microbiology and Virology Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy Corresponding author: Michele Spinicci Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica Largo Brambilla 3, 50134 Firenze Tel +39 055 7949431 email: michele.spinicci@unifi.it Abstract word count: 153 words Manuscript word count: 1895 words https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821002065 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 3.239.56.152, on 10 Sep 2021 at 13:21:18, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at