FIFA To Deploy Football Intelligence At World Cup 2022

During the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, FIFA has announced it will share the most modern insights, metrics and performance data in tournament history with the worldwide TV and online audience, together with the participating teams and their players.

Developed by the FIFA High-Performance team and led by FIFA Chief of Global Football Development Arsène Wenger, the enhanced football intelligence service will offer new and exciting metrics to enrich the coverage and analysis of every game at the FIFA World Cup 2022™.

FIFA said every match would have its unique set of in-match and post-match enhanced football intelligence visuals presented as augmented reality and traditional graphics. These new technologies according to FIFA will break down each area of the game into fine detail and provide operational definitions and multiple video examples to define each action clearly. This will enable an analysis not only of what happens on the ball but also of the movements and interactions around and off the ball for teams and players when they are both in and out of possession.

Using this data, FIFA will be able to conduct longitudinal post-match analysis to understand how the game is evolving over time as well as developmental analysis to better comprehend what it takes to progress from junior to senior level in both the men’s and women’s games.

“We would like to share our vision of using football data analytics combined with technical expert interpretation to create a new football intelligence, allowing everyone to better understand the game,” says Wenger. “Enhanced football intelligence will be our blueprint for how we analyse football in the future. When we discover new insights, we want to share them with the world of football”

The FIFA High-Performance team comprises football analysts, data scientists and data engineers, and has developed innovative technology to provide ground-breaking metrics and insights. At the FIFA World Cup 2022, 11 new metrics will be introduced: