FIFA and the Barça Innovation Hub have issued a standard format that will govern the storage and transfer of match and practice data generated by teams.
The landmark proposal will allow clubs and suppliers to more easily exchange and compare information in a single, unified format in order to optimize their use of technology and unlock sharing capabilities.
The deal was announced last week at the FC Barcelona football club’s fourth-annual Sports Technology Symposium by Johannes Holzmüller, head of sports technology at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Barça Innovation Hub, the tech and innovation heart of the FC Barcelona sports organization in Spain, helped FIFA create a standard format to unify this data, which up until now has been stored in different formats by each club.