A quarter of players who appeared in the English Football League last season were not drugs tested by UK Anti-Doping (Ukad), despite a large rise in testing across England's top four divisions.
Professor Ivan Waddington, an expert in doping in sport, described the level of testing in the EFL as "unacceptable".
The Football Association said it runs "one of the most comprehensive national anti-doping programmes in world sport".
Tests were up 47% in the Premier League and 24% in the EFL compared to 2015-16.
In the top flight, 1,171 samples were taken from 524 players who made at least one appearance - an average of 2.23 samples per player.
The FA, which records drugs tests differently to Ukad - counting urine and blood samples separately, says the number of tests is set to rise further from "about 3,250 to in excess of 5,000 in 2017-18".
Source : bbc
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