The Wisesport football analytics system provided automated real-time statistics for professional teams in Veikkausliiga’s (Finnish Premier League) last match of the 2020 season. With the latest technologies, football clubs and service providers can use tools that were not available before, including real-time video clipping, advanced pass and ball control statistics, and dozens of other analytics features.
Wisesport’s real-time statistics can be used for many different purposes, including coaching, fan entertainment and sports broadcasts.
“We have already seen our automated real-time data in TV, mobile apps and live betting. Besides, sports events can introduce visualized data to big audiences on jumbotron and LED screens and with new digital solutions,” explains Wisehockey’s Head of Sales Miska Kuusisto.
"Advanced analytics is just one unique aspect of the platform. We offer a fully automated real-time solution that requires no personnel to run the system at an event. In addition to new kinds of services, this enables utilizing our analytics for player development on all levels," Kuusisto adds.
The Wisehockey system is used in thousands of ice hockey games a year including all the KHL’s and Finnish Hockey League’s games. Now similar advanced technology is also available in football.
Wisesport’s player and ball tracking utilizes the accurate positioning technology of Quuppa. The ball and players are equipped with tags that allow positioning with ten-centimeter accuracy. Real-time data goes into a cloud where the data is automatically visualized for further use.
Veikkausliiga is the premier division of Finnish football, consisting of 12 clubs. Veikkausliiga clubs HJK and FC Inter played the 2020 season’s last match on 4 November in Bolt Arena, Helsinki using the Wisesport football analytics platform for the first time in a Veikkausliiga match.
The match settled the 30th Veikkausliiga championship for HJK, the most successful football club in Finland. HJK will now have a new chance to enter the group stage of the UEFA Champions League. FC Inter enters trials of the UEFA Europa League.
Get to know the Wisesport platform: watch an introductory video.
More information
Miska Kuusisto, Head of Sales, +358 50 480 3658, [email protected]
Mika Hulkki, Head of Product Management, +358 50 086 6267, [email protected]
Wisehockey in short
The Wisehockey system is a fully automated real-time sports analytics platform that gathers and analyses game data and presents it to users in a graphic and easy-to-use format. Wisesport is an official trademark of the company Wisehockey Ltd.
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