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L8 · Football tech / Data · Football data analytics platform· London, UK

StatsBomb

The leading football data analytics platform serving club recruitment, opposition analysis, and academy development. Acquired by Stats Perform in 2024 (reported), continuing under the StatsBomb brand. Anchor positions across European top-flight and selected federation clients.

Type
Football data analytics platform
Founded
2017
Headquarters
London, UK
Leadership
Ted Knutson (Founder · CEO)
Scale headline
200+ club and federation clients
Posture (2026)
Data-platform deepening across club workflows

The football-data analytics anchor

StatsBomb is the leading football-specific data analytics platform globally, with anchor positions across European top-flight clubs (selected Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1), federations (selected national associations), and the broader recruitment, opposition-analysis, and academy-development markets. The platform's proprietary event-data, tracking-data, and analytic-modelling architecture is the structural differentiator versus traditional sports-data competitors.

Stats Perform reportedly acquired StatsBomb in 2024, integrating the platform into the broader Stats Perform group while continuing the StatsBomb brand identity and product line.

Scale and structure

Type
Football data analytics platform. Acquired into Stats Perform group (reported 2024).
Source · Reported
Parent group
Stats Perform (reported acquirer). Investcorp historically held a position.
Source · Reported
Major football clients
Clubs: 200+ across European top-flight, MLS, J-League, Brazilian Serie A, plus second-tier markets. Federations: selected national associations.
Source · Disclosed · Reported
Geographic focus
Global. London HQ. North American, Asian, Latin American club coverage.
Source · Disclosed
Leadership
Founder · CEO: Ted Knutson. Operations and product leadership: embedded across analytics, tracking, and recruitment-platform divisions.
Source · Disclosed
Activation model
Subscription data feeds, analytic-platform access, custom-modelling consultancy, academy-development tools, integrated recruitment workflow.
Source · Reported
Strategic posture (2026)
Data-platform deepening across club workflows. Continued recruitment-platform expansion. Stats Perform integration. Federation-side expansion.
Source · Reported
Notable products
StatsBomb 360 (tracking-data), StatsBomb IQ (recruitment platform), event-data feed, custom-analytic modelling.
Source · Reported

What the institution actually does

StatsBomb's operating model is subscription data plus analytic-platform access. Clubs subscribe to event-data, tracking-data, and the StatsBomb IQ recruitment platform, with custom-modelling consultancy layered for top-end clients. The proprietary tracking-data architecture (StatsBomb 360) is the structural differentiator versus competitors that depend on third-party tracking feeds.

The Stats Perform integration consolidates the broader football-data category. The combined entity has the deepest event-and-tracking data footprint globally, with overlapping client bases that drive cross-sell and account-deepening opportunities.

Direction in 2026

StatsBomb's stated direction in 2026 is data-platform deepening across club workflows: continued recruitment-platform expansion, opposition-analysis tooling, and academy-development integration. The Stats Perform integration architecture continues. Federation-side expansion remains a stated growth thread.