SL Benfica and SportAnalytics announce parnership

Sport Lisboa e Benfica and SportAnalytics Establish a Partnership for Advanced Performance Insights and AI-Driven Analytics Platform to propel future achievements.

The Club is perceived to be a pioneer in football: Benfica Campus Academy is widely regarded as the best in Europe. At the heart of this success is a commitment to data-driven strategies, long-term investments in state-of-the-art infrastructure, and groundbreaking solutions.

SportAnalytics, a leading consultancy in sports, leverages scientific expertise, cutting-edge technology and innovation to deliver comprehensive, data-driven performance analyses to sports teams. By combining advanced data management, machine learning and artificial intelligence, SportAnalytics offers tailored, predictive insights to further informed strategic decision-making.

This partnership empowers SL Benfica to use over 800 contextual metrics, enhancing their assessment of both team and player performance, as well as in-depth analysis of upcoming opponents in Portuguese and UEFA competitions. As part of the deal every member of the Benfica First Team Technical Staff will have access to the revolutionary SportAnalytics Platform, which enables users to get key performance indicators, view a novel perspective of the game, delve into every phase, and flexibly filter data for a contextualized and comprehensive understanding.

Nuno Maurício, Head of Performance Analysis at SL Benfica, declared: “We are thrilled to rely on the services of SportAnalytics. This collaboration will reinforce our innovative approach to utilizing data analytics by our Performance Analysts, Sport Data Scientists and the Coaching Staff, for informed decision-making, particularly in match and opponent analysis, as well as player and team performance monitoring, in a process perfectly aligned with the analysis model and holistic intervention of Sport Lisboa e Benfica”. 

Maria Angonese, Head of Innovation da SportAnalytics, added: “Data is becoming an increasingly decisive factor in sports. Our company provides fast, accurate and easy-to-use solutions to improve the outcomes for both athletes and the organizations they play for. We have experienced great commitment and collaborative spirit within Benfica’s technical staff and we will dedicate all our energy and proficiency to support them. It is an honor to contribute to the future achievements of one of the most prestigious and forward-thinking football club worldwide.”