India, March 19 -- Instead of having names on their jerseys, soccer players from Toulouse and Lorient will have pictograms of different disabilities during their Ligue 1 game on Saturday.

The measure is part of a French soccer league awareness campaign aimed at providing better long-term stadium facilities for people with disabilities. Seven disabilities feature on the pictograms: visual, cognitive, hearing, intellectual, debilitating illnesses, motor and intellectual. "This design embodies a collective commitment to the inclusion and visibility of people with disabilities," the Ligue de Football Professionnel said Tuesday in a statement.

"The seven pictograms form the central part of the awareness campaign deployed around the match." S...