Education
Artificial intelligence for modern football
AI4Football creates education programmes together with leading universities and corporate centres of excellence. We bring together fundamental science and real business cases from professional football.
Our education projects
Data Science in Sports
A joint course by AI4Football and MIPT
An education programme on applying data science in sport. It combines a research track with current football problems.
Artificial intelligence in football
Together with SberUniversity
An introductory course on modern sports analytics and AI in football, developed together with specialists from Russian and international top clubs.
Course
Data Science in Sports
The programme combines fundamental machine learning concepts with applied football cases. Students work with tracking data, computer vision, game event models and decision support tools.
- Player detection and tracking
- Homography
- Game events
- Tracking data
- xG, xA, xT, VAEP, EPV, OBV
- Trajectory prediction
- NLP in scouting
- Decision support models
- Representation learning
Course
Artificial intelligence in football
The programme introduces modern data science and AI methods in football analytics. It helps club specialists build skills in working with data, and data science and computer vision specialists dive into the sports domain and master the applied problems of professional football.
- Detection and tracking
- Player re-identification
- Homography
- Game events
- Tracking data
- Space control
- Football metrics
- Trajectory prediction
- NLP in scouting
- Player embeddings
- Decision support models
From real problems to working technology
AI4Football education projects are built around the real problems football clubs face
Computer vision
How to find players and the ball, build tracking and extract events from football video.
Data and analytics
How to work with tracking data and football metrics.
AI in scouting
How to use AI to find, analyse and organise players.
Practical problems
How analytical methods are used in the real processes of a football team.
