Sport Performance Analysis

Sportscode is widely used across the industry. The software allows you to upload your training and match videos and tag any relevant events to analyse. Create interactive reports with links to highlights of what went well and what can be improved.

Dartfish allows sport teams to record and import their training session and match videos, idenfity relevant actions through drawing, instant replay and various tools and classify and filter relevant highlights for the most efficient feedback.

Nacsport develops a range of video analysis software applied to sports aimed to improve performance through analysis of parameters (actions) taking place during a competition or sport event by applying video as a vehicle for data collection.

Opta captures, analyses and provides statistical data across a wide range of elite sports around the world. Opta partners with the largest organisations in the world of sports, as well as media, marketing and betting companies. Their services range from data feeds at various level of sophistication to widgets to display analysis to analytical reports.

Quintic analysis software offers video capture and biomechanical analysis tools to assess individual athlete's performance. The software comes in three different levels: video analysis for quick feedback, a coaching version and a biomechanical analysis premier version.

CoachPaint is a video editing tool that allows coaches and analysts to instantly visualize forma­tion, progression, alignment, keys and technique. CoachPaint includes an Area Tool, Player Cursor, Free Line, Free Arrow, Text Box (tag tool), Timed Pause and more.

KlipDraw is a video editing tool that allows you to create animated graphics in your training and match videos and show them as a sequence for improved analytic visualisation. The tool also allows you to simulate movements by dragging players or describe routes and paths.

Wyscout is a data platform offering player video footage and various statistics, including contract details, physical attributes, recent performances and more. It is widely used across the world of football for scouting and recruitment purposes. The large majority of transfers in the world of football today either initiate or get closed using Wyscout. 

STATS has been capturing and delivering sports data for over 35 years. They offer data from a variery of elite sports and competitions all over the world through sophisticated APIS and data feeds, including real-time data distribution. The majority of the largest media organisations in the world use data from STATS.

CSV data files with historical football data to use for quantitative testing and exploration in spreadsheet applications like Excel. You will find FT & HT results; match stats; match, total goals & AH odds for most of the major football leagues for free.

A more technical but free way of retrieving football data is this open football database that uses any programming language. Football.db uses plain databases to offer a free and public domain football data schema. Documentation on how to use it is provided in various GitHub files.

While it is not retrievable, Squawka offers a simplified but up-to-date number of core performance metrics for various football teams and players that can be accessed through their website. Their range of filtering options makes it possible to achieve quick and insightful on-screen analysis of the performance of players and teams in all top football leagues.

Openfooty offers a free API solution to the retrieve football data that footytube gathers. The data is targeted for developers who want to use football data for any non-commercial applications. Register in their website to get an API key to then retrieve a variety of metrics around matches, teams, players, betting and more.

Football-Data.org provides football data of all major european leagues in a machine-readable way, including fixtures, teams, players, results and more. All this information is provided via an easy-to-use RESTful API in JSON format. Register for a free API key to get CORS support. Their website offers clear documentation but you require to be comfortable using APIs.

Statsbomb are sharing new data and research publicly to enhance understanding of the game of Football by actively encouraging new research and analytics. The data shares by Statsbomb has a great level of detail and can be used to explore new data models and creative ways of look at football data.

Tableau is one of the leading Business Intelligence and Analytics platforms. Their software offers solutions to improve data visualisation from almost any data source. Build interactive dashboards from a large variety of charts, graphs and tables. It is a great tool for data exploration and spotting visual patters.

Being an analyst involves the use of Microsoft Excel one way or another. From basic analysis to complex spreadsheets, having an advanced knowledge of this well-known and established data analysis software is a fundamental asset for any analyst in any industry. Excel allows you to organise data, perform  calculations with formulas and discover patters in numerous ways.