Football Business Awards

BEST USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN FOOTBALL (NOT CLUB SPECIFIC) 2019

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BEST USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN FOOTBALL (NOT CLUB SPECIFIC) 2019

Catapult

Catapult and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) have partnered to bring elite athlete monitoring technology to the 55 national federations under CAF’s jurisdiction. Helping to drive the development of an elite performance infrastructure for football in every African nation, the partnership is progressing towards its ultimate goal of making CAF a world-leading organisation in terms of the application of performance technology and the provision of related educational initiatives around sports science and data analysis in elite football.

Imagineear Ltd

Imagineear is the leading producer of multimedia content and technology for self-guided and group guided tours at major football clubs, stadia, related museums and sports heritage attractions worldwide. We turn empty stadia into leading visitor attractions, using our content and technology to create visitor experiences that bring venues to life and take fans behind the scenes on non-match days.

Our work helps manage visitor flow, optimise visitor spend and provide real-time data insights. We provide our sports clients with everything they need from the technology, including the operational planning, to the interactive immersive multilingual experiences that deepen the football club’s connection with their fans and visitors from all over the world.

With our ground-breaking Multimedia GroupGuide™ technology, group leaders can now intersperse live commentary with dynamic multimedia content, including 360º videos and VR/AR image recognition, all personalised in the visitor’s own language.

Football clients we work in close partnership with include Arsenal Emirates Stadium Experience, the London Stadium and West Ham United FC, Chelsea FC, Wembley Stadium, Liverpool FC, Manchester United FC and Manchester City FC, plus new projects currently in development with Tottenham Hotspur FC.

SeatServe

SeatServe enables fans to order food, drinks & merchandise on their smartphones & have it discreetly & efficiently delivered to their seats, by existing staff, from their nearest concession. The primary commercial
drivers are as follows:

1. Improving the customer experience:

  • Sell more tickets & put more bums on seats.
  • Broader access to concessions/merchandise, throughout the matchday.
  • Mobile payments reducing fraud & enabling concurrent transactions.

2. Sponsorship activation:

  • An entirely unique rights package to attract additional partnerships.
  • Proactive fan engagement, driving offers/promotions at the point of sale.
  • Leveraging any investment made in digital infrastructure (connectivity).

3. Data proposition:

  • Get to know fans & market to them more effectively.
  • Target those spending more with appropriate hospitality upgrades.
  • Full retail analysis on what’s popular & therefore what more to offer.

More people, coming back more often, spending more each time they
do so. Win-win-win.

SportSessionPlanner.com

We are a leading sports software company, based in the UK, with sales offices located throughout the world Formed in 2011 by sports coaches and world class IT specialists, with over 20 years experience, we have grown to be recognised as one of the worlds leading sports software providers, with thousands of users around the globe.

Our Award winning software is used by some of the world’s greatest named clubs, professional coaches, and individual coaches of all ages and abilities. We offer our Members state of the art 3D session planning software which they use to generate quick sport session plans with outstanding visuals and can animate their sessions and bring them to life. We enable our members to be highly organised allowing them to save their sessions onto their own session library and/or onto the public session library where there are thousands of sessions uploaded from coaches all over the world. We offer Members the opportunity to search a library of session plans to extend their knowledge of coaching and view sessions created by some of the world’s top professional coaches.

StreamAMG

StreamAMG created CloudMatrix to meet the needs of football club clients looking for a quick and easy way to tag, search and collate video content in their archives. The unique system creates dynamic feeds based on custom rules and restrictions, letting content manager’s quickly and easily present boxsets, channels and playlists that automatically update with new uploads across a club’s platforms.

CloudMatrix unites content creation, payment and distribution into one intuitive package. Following a successful launch in 2018, CloudMatrix has been adopted by an ever growing number of football clubs, allowing content teams to easily present their fans with a premium viewing experience, bring archive content to life and increase viewer engagement.