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The economic value of sports increases in importance in today’s society. Sports clubs’ budgets break records every year. The costs of injuries increase together with these remarkable budgets of sports clubs. Several injury prevention programs already exist but no previous programs combine multiple factors through artificial intelligence to predict injury risks. This paper investigates how artificial intelligence can support sports clubs’ health and injury management. Since no previous research is conducted and no data is available to study this subject, a large literature study has been fulfilled. This literature defines the term artificial intelligence and how AI is evolving in the last decade. The current injury prevention practices are also examined through a literature review. Are current programs effective, what are the costs of those programs and how did they changed over time? Interviews with people of different interests in sports were taken to sketch a wide picture of the future of artificial intelligence in sports. Football clubs in Belgium and the Netherlands have started to collect data, but need much more monitored data to be able to use artificial intelligence techniques. Clubs need to invest in tools to measure data more accurate and more frequent. The three phases in artificial intelligence for injury prevention are explained and examples are provided to accelerate the implantation.