Young players at Brighton are being trained on issues surrounding sexual consent.
The Sky Bet Championship club are believed to be the first to provide the counselling, to all young male and female players, as part of the 'Protect, Inform and Prevent' programme.
The training involves players taking part in confidential question-and-answer sessions about their previous encounters and is led by a former police detective and a psychotherapist.
Brighton striker Chike Kandi, 19, told BBC Radio 5 live: "They narrowed that grey area between consent and not consent. They narrowed it down to one moment or one point in an interaction when you can definitely ask the question and if the answer is yes it's okay, and if the answer is no, you back off."
Former Sheffield United striker Ched Evans was convicted of rape in 2012, an incident over which he protests his innocence. Evans tried but failed to return to football in the winter transfer window after serving half his sentence, but was unable to tie down a deal with Oldham due to the circumstances surrounding his conviction.
In 2013, four Brighton players were found not guilty of sexual assault and voyeurism after a 19-year-old woman claimed to have been assaulted at a hotel two years previously.
Psychotherapist Maggie Ellis said: "The programme is there to really bring good information to young sports people - men and women - and get them thinking about their sexual behaviour.
"Our agenda is we want to prevent sexual crimes from happening. I head up a rape crisis service. I see the huge, terrible devastation of the impact of rape and sexual assault on people's lives. I want to see that prevented and stop that happening."
Source: PA
