Pointers on Football Analytics

This page reports a collection of pointers on football analytics. Not everything is relevant. Given a particular topic it is a good idea to search in the proceedings of the conferences whether the topic has been addressed before and how.

Literature

  • Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game. David Sumpter. Pro-Edition. ISBN: 9781472924148. 2017

  • C. McCarthy, P. Tampakis, M. Chiarandini, M. B. Randers, S. Jänicke, A. Zimek (2022). Analyzing passing sequences for the prediction of goal-scoring opportunities. In U. Brefeld, J. Davis, J. V. Haaren, A. Zimmermann (Eds.), Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics - 9th International Workshop, MLSA 2022, Grenoble, France, September 19, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, vol. 1783 of Communications in Computer and Information Science, pp. 27–40, Springer.

Conferences

Software

Soccermatics

Open-source libraries available that synchronise event and tracking data in a reliable and reproducible way.

These libraries have been used in multiple academic and applied projects, and they help avoid the challenge of maintaining custom alignment solutions that are difficult to reproduce. They also provide a shared foundation for validation, benchmarking, and collaboration across research projects.

Past Projects

Contributed

  • C. McCarthy, P. Tampakis, M. Chiarandini, M. B. Randers, S. Jänicke, A. Zimek (2022). Analyzing passing sequences for the prediction of goal-scoring opportunities. In U. Brefeld, J. Davis, J. V. Haaren, A. Zimmermann (Eds.), Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics - 9th International Workshop, MLSA 2022, Grenoble, France, September 19, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, vol. 1783 of Communications in Computer and Information Science, pp. 27–40, Springer.

Supervised

  • From Player Load to Performance Decline: A Data-Driven Analysis of Professional Football Maryam Abdullahi Guled Ali and Isra Shamsudin Hussein Sharif, 2026

  • Contextual Expected Goals from Tracking Data in Football. Marius Ellegaard Schønberg, 2026

  • The occurrence of acceleration and deceleration events in Small-Sided Games and the relation to football match performance. Ida Nisted Møller Christensen, 2024

  • Wide Open Space Detection in danish soccer. Philip Winther Jensen. with Panagiotis Tampakis, 2023

  • Chatbot­driven Football Analysis: Unleashing Insights from Danish Superliga Event Data. Jesper Pilegaard Kristensen, 2024, with Tariq Yousef

  • European Football Placement Problems: Complexities and Exact Solutions. Jan Christensen and Anders Knudsen. 2014, Supervisor: Kim Skak Larsen

  • Optimization of public transportation by including private vehicles. Søren Bjerrum & Søren Sørensen, 2013 with Jørgen Bang-Jensen