Sports insurance
Get sports insurance either by adding athletes’ covers to your health insurance, or through Sports CoverSelect athletes' covers
if you want to expand your Health Insurance to cover competitive sports or high-risk sport you do.
Select Sports Cover
when buying a licence if you do a specific sport actively, train or compete in a club, or if you are a competitive athlete.
Free-of-charge Pohjola Health Advisor is there for athletes
Pohjola Health Advisor will assist you if you injure yourself in the competitive sports you have taken up. A health advisor will schedule an appointment for your with a partner hospital or clinic with relevant specialisation or give you home-care instructions. There is no need to queue at our partner hospitals or clinics, and you are assisted by professionals specialised in treating the very symptoms or injury you have.
Sports Insurance guarantees first-rate treatment and keeps you going
Thanks to Health Insurance, you can enjoy an active lifestyle without a worry and carry on jogging, conditioning or playing outdoor games, for example. However, if you go for competitive sports or high-risk sports, you need to take out sports insurance. You can take insurance for sports either by extending your Health Insurance with athletes’ covers, or by buying Sports Cover when you buy your sports licence.
When you take up a new sport, always check whether it is covered by insurance. Contact our customer service and we will find out what kind of sports insurance suits you best.
Sports insurance is necessary in at least the following cases:
- You take part in competitions or matches organised by a sports federation or club,
- you go in for a special sport referred to in the insurance terms and conditions or anything with higher risks that conditioning or
- you take part in the competitive category of a conditioning event, such as the Finlandia-hiihto skiing event.
Health Insurance by means of athletes' covers
Your Health Insurance will become sports insurance if you add to it athletes’ medical treatment cover, athletes’ dental cover and athletes' supplementary medical treatment cover. Extending the coverage of your Health Insurance is easiest done by calling our customer service.
Athletes’ covers included in Health Insurance are valid continuously in the sports you have chosen. You can choose the insurance to cover not only sports injuries but also injuries caused by exertions and illnesses specified in the terms and conditions. Coverable injuries include Achilles tendon and knee meniscus rupture and stress fractures. Supplementary medical treatment cover also compensates, for example, physiotherapy expenses or an orthopaedic brace enabling you to do the sport.
Children and young people can go in for competitive sports under athletes’ covers included in Health Insurance in different clubs until the age of 16. Anyone aged 16 or more may, however, select coverage for specific sports.
Sports cover for over 80 sports
Sports Cover is a fixed-period sports insurance for people of all ages. You can buy Sports Cover easily on your sports federation’s website at the same time you buy a licence. The insurance covers injuries sustained in your sport caused by sudden events, and also injuries caused by no external factor. The insurance is valid everywhere in the world unless otherwise specified in the product guide or insurance contract.
Pohjola Health Advisor is there for athletes
You will have access to the Pohjola Health Advisor service when you have expanded your health insurance with sports covers or purchased Sports Cover with your sports licence. In the service, you will be assisted by experienced healthcare professionals free of charge. The health advisors are extensively qualified and skilled in treating sports injuries as well.
If you have an injury, please contact the Pohjola Health Advisor service by phone at 0100 5225 or via the Pohjola Health Advisor app. You can contact the service with any health concerns to decide whether you should see a doctor. A health advisor will assess your situation and give you home-care instructions or schedule an appointment for you with a partner hospital or clinic that specialises in your situation. If you have taken out Pohjola Health Insurance that covers illnesses, you can also contact a health advisor when you fall ill.
The Pohjola Health Advisor service streamlines the filing of claims, since the health advisor will file a loss report on your behalf. You can also receive a claims settlement decision from the health advisor. When your appointment at our partner hospital or clinic is scheduled via the Pohjola Health Advisor service, all you need to pay out of pocket at the appointment is your deductible.
Sports Insurance covers, our partner hospitals treat
In addition to Sports Insurance, athletes can depend on our partner hospitals' experts specialised in treating the part of your body that requires care, ensuring that you get the best possible know-how and experience.