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🔷 Simply 𝚙𝚒𝚙 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕 "𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚙𝚢[𝚔𝚕𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚢]" to get started with data synchronization, pitch control (space occupation), computing distance covered, individual player possessions etc.
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
As a result, any 𝐤𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲 supported event data provider (IMPECT, Statsbomb, DataFactory, Sportec, Opta, Wyscout and Metrica), and tracking data provider (SkillCorner, Hawk-Eye, PFF / Gradient Sports, Signality, Sportec, Stats Perform, Metrica and TRACAB) can now all be easily loaded into 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐩𝐲.
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
⚽ 𝐊𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐏𝐲

Another day, another big open-source football analytics announcement!

𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐩𝐲, a Python package to load, synchronize and analyze football tracking and event data, now directly supports loading data with 𝐤𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲.
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🔷 𝐤𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐯𝟑.𝟏𝟖.𝟎 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓

Today marks another big day for football analytics! Together with @impect-official.bsky.social
we release a novel dataset with event data for the 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑/𝟐𝟒 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐚.

📎 kloppy.pysport.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 - 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞

Last week we announced the first ever 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐗 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐩. Due to the overwhelming interest we have made the decision to close registrations on 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 (𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐂𝐄𝐓).

𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐔𝐩 pysport.org/analytics-cup
October 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We’re excited to launch the 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐗 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐩 - a hackathon-style challenge that will bring together the community to collaborate, compete, and innovate using open-source SkillCorner data.

👉 Sign up pysport.org/analytics-cup
October 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
If you were experiencing issues with loading Sportec data, or installing v3.17.0 in general, these issues should now be resolved. Thanks to Jan Swiatek, Miguel Vidal and Hyunsung Kim for raising these issues! And thanks to @probberechts.bsky.social and @koenvossen.bsky.social too!
August 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
🔷 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐗 𝐏𝐲𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐄𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬! 🔶

On December 9th @PyData Eindhoven and @pysport.org will organize 𝐏𝐲𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐄𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓!

𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨: lnkd.in/eBGWKs3V
August 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
🤝 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫!

In a landscape dominated by proprietary tools and fragmented standards, we're excited to announce our partnership with @impect-official.bsky.social to support a more open and interoperable future for football analytics.
July 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
🔷 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐗 𝐏𝐲𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐄𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 🔶

On December 9th @pydata.bsky.social Eindhoven and PySport will once again join forces to host an incredible one day event!

The Call for Proposals (and more information in general) will follow soon, so if you have a cool project or idea brewing, stay tuned!
June 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🚀 Ingestify 0.7.0 is live

Parsing football data with kloppy is fun. The hard bit is fetching raw files and keeping them clean and version-safe.

That’s the gap Ingestify fills.

github.com/PySport/inge...
June 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🩵 𝐊𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐯𝟑.𝟏𝟕.𝟎 + 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧!

Last week we released a new version of Kloppy that includes fully reworked documentation and support for 3 new tracking data providers amongst dozen of other features and improvements!

🔗 kloppy.pysport.org
June 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🎉 𝐊𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝟓 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬!

Today, Kloppy celebrates 5 years since @koenvossen.bsky.social released v0.1.0!

Over the past 5 years Kloppy has grown to support 9 tracking data providers, 6 event data providers and many more functionalities.

On to the next 5 years! 🍾
April 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
⭐ 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐗 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐓𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬

𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑇𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑠 are available for our 𝑃𝑦𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑋 Stats Perform event in London on March 17th!

🎙️ We'll have various talks by Jonny Whitmore & @dannydinsdale.bsky.social, Sebastien Coustou, @tk5.futbol, Manuel Bassek (Floodlight) and more!
March 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
⚽ 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐗 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐓𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬

We're excited to announce that 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑇𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑠 are now available for our 𝑃𝑦𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑋 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑠𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 London event on March 17th!
March 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🌉🌁 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬!

We brought together contributors from different open source projects to discuss how we can align our work and improve interoperability in football analytics.

Looking forward to the next steps. #FootballAnalytics #OpenSource #PySport
February 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🌍 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓

We're still looking for more responses to the 2025 PySport Survey!

Since our last post we've been able to add:
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia

👉 forms.gle/uHqr3NcePzbB...
February 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
⭐ 𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓

We've had responses to the PySport 2025 Survey from all over the world, but we'd like to hear from many more people!

If you have not yet filled out the survey, please do so at: forms.gle/sB5vM2Ac81oq...
January 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
💰 Finally, if you are a frequent user of 𝐊𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲 or want to buy Pieter or Dries a coffee for all their fantastic work, consider donating to PySport.

You can donate via the QR code below or at pysport.org
December 18, 2024 at 9:39 AM
🔹 Team formation changes throughout the game, and starting formations.
December 18, 2024 at 9:39 AM
🔹 Standardized and hierarchically ordered position types.
December 18, 2024 at 9:39 AM
✨𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬
🔹 Support for 7 synced open-source DFL Tracking and Event data files.
December 18, 2024 at 9:39 AM
🎄 𝐤𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲==𝟑.𝟏𝟔.𝟎

Happy Holidays to the Sports Analytics Community!

This release contains some exciting updates, you can find the highlights in this thread.

But first, we're really excited that @probberechts.bsky.social has officially joined as a maintainer! 💙
December 18, 2024 at 9:39 AM
💸𝐏𝐲𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬!

We're now accepting donations to advance open-source sports analytics. Your contribution helps develop innovative open source tools and fosters a collaborative community.

🚀 Donate via QR code or at pysport.org. Together, let's shape the future of sports data!
December 4, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Nice! :-)
November 19, 2024 at 2:53 PM