Through the FIFA Player App, the athletes at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar will be able to learn more about their on-field performance.
Together with FIFPRO, the world’s leading representative of professional footballers, FIFA created the FIFA Player App with input from professional players.
The FIFA Player App will be used for the first time at a FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
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The survey and interviews conducted show that players are very interested in their performance data and want to have easy access to this information.
The FIFA Player App will provide the opportunity for each player to access their individual player-performance data shortly after each match.
The data collected includes enhanced football data metrics – calculated from enhanced event data, captured by a team of highly trained FIFA football performance analysts, combined with tracking data, Physical performance metrics – collected through a highly accurate in-stadium tracking system consisting of multiple cameras located around the pitch for maximum player coverage and enhanced football intelligence metrics – created by the FIFA Football Performance Analysis & Insights team through the development of a series of algorithms and models that operate live to integrate event and tracking data.
Additionally, multiple action photographs taken during key moments of each FIFA World Cup match will be made available to each individual player.
Players will be able to save or share the photos on social media, together with their favourite match statistics, directly from the app.
Players will be able to access the FIFA Player App when they arrive in Qatar for the FIFA World Cup.
The FIFA Player App was successfully trialled with players from different teams at the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 and was presented to the FIFA World Cup participating teams during the recent Team Workshop in Doha.
