Course Introduction

The first course in our Academy provides a solid foundation in Football Analytics.

You'll learn all the basics from understanding expected goals to analysing opposition tactics. This learning can be successfully applied to a role in professional football analysis, assist you with a future role or simply provide learning material to help develop your knowledge of data and analytics in football.

This course contains 5 core lessons, each tuition video lasting between 30-50 minutes.

The course is also available in Spanish at cursos.statsbomb.com.

Course contents

  • 2

    Expected Goals

  • 3

    Types of Attack

  • 4

    Set Pieces

  • 5

    Defensive Choices

  • 6

    Team/Opposition Analysis

  • 7

    Wrap up

  • 8

    Course survey and resources

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£60 inclusive of any relevant taxes

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FAQs

  • Who is the course for?

    The introduction course is designed to be accessible to everyone and teaches you the basics of data analytics in football. You don’t need to work in professional football or have advanced statistical knowledge. A basic understanding of football and statistics is useful.

  • How does the course work?

    It’s very simple. You will need to create an account on our courses website, then you can watch the course videos at a time that suits you. There are some exercises to complete during the course which you can also do at your leisure, there’s no need to send these back to us, they are for you to test your learning.

  • How long is the course?

    There are 5 modules, each lasting about 40 minutes.

  • How much does the course cost?

    It’s £60 inclusive of any relevant taxes for all 5 modules, payable before you start. No student discounts or refunds available.

  • Who should I contact if I have questions?

    You can email support@statsbomb.com with any questions about the course.

  • Are there any technical requirements to access the course?

    This is a web based course - we recommend using Chrome but it also works on Safari. We recommend watching the videos in 1080p - you can set the video resolution in your settings when watching each video (bottom right hand corner of your screen). There are no particular tools or software introduced in this course. However at the end we do link to some of our existing resources for getting started with data (especially our R/python packages).

  • Does the course expire?

    No it doesn't. Once you've paid for the course you can access it whenever you like and we won't take the course away.

  • Will I get a certificate when I complete the course?

    Yes you receive a StatsBomb certificate of completion once you finish the course.

  • My company is paying for the course, can I get an invoice?

    If your company is paying for the course we can arrange an invoice in advance and once payment is received we will provide access to the course. To request an invoice please email accountsreceivable@statsbomb.com including the following details below; Course Required, Business Name, Address and VAT number to be included on the invoice. Please note that we cannot provide B2B invoices retrospectively if not indicated in advance, as payment is processed as a B2C transaction.

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