Open Source Technologies Involved in Constructing a Web-Based Football Information System

Abstract

Abstract. The current information systems and match analysis software associated to professional football output a huge amount of statistics. Many football professionals are particularly interested in real time information about the tactical plan occurring during the match, and the relations between that information and what was prepared in the training sessions. It is fundamental to have on the bench, and on-the-fly, the most relevant information each time they have to take a decision. In this paper, we present a set of open source technologies involved in building a multi-platform web based integrated football information system, supported in three main modules: user interfaces, databases, and the tactical plan detection and classification. We show that the selected technologies are suitable for those modules, allowing field occurrences to trigger meaningful information.

A Computer Vision Based Web Application for Tracking Soccer Players

“…Footdata-PRO [1] features an acquisition and information system divided in five main modules: (a) Field module, where the ball's and players' location in the pitch is done by computer vision. This information is sent through an Internet connection to a server, where the match tactical plans are verified, based on the information available from prepared tactical schemes, trainings, individual players, and collective information from each team.…”

“…Even so, none of those integrate all the technologies and goals of the Footdata project. Please refer to [1,2] for a more comprehensive review of the literature.…”

A Visual Programming Language for Soccer

“…In resume the tracking framework is composed by a set application capable of doing the tracking of the players and ball, given images of the full size pitch. Please refer to [1] for further details.…”

“…Footdata [1] is a project in development by Inesting, S.A., the University of the Algarve and the soccer coach Domingos Paciência. The goal is to build a web application product for soccer, which integrates two fundamental components of this sport's world: i) a social network (FootData-Social), which provides the typical features adapted to the soccer reality, and ii) the professional component (FootData-PRO), which can be considered as a Soccer Resource Planning (SRP), featuring a system for acquisition and processing of information to meet all the soccer management needs.…”