Football Analysis Software for Match Analysts

How a match breakdown comes together

An analysis lives or dies on how quickly you can get from observation to picture. The board starts you at the picture: select a fixture from more than 1,000 covered leagues and both teams load with real, recent lineups — player names, numbers and positions — with no manual data entry (real lineups are part of the Basic tier and above). That means the first ten minutes of your workflow, the part that used to be typing, is now already done when you open the board.

Ground your analysis in the data surfaces

Shot maps, heat maps and average-position maps can be laid directly onto the pitch behind your annotations. Instead of describing where a full-back spent the match, you show the heat map and draw the consequence on top of it: the space behind, the passing lane it opened, the rotation that exploited it. Shot maps are available on every tier; heat maps are part of the Advanced tier.

Break down footage with Media Draw

Media Draw is the video half of the workflow. Upload a clip or a screenshot, pause on the frame that matters, and annotate it with the same football-specific tools you use on the board — arrows, zones, player highlights, a spotlight to isolate the key man. It is built for the moment-by-moment work of explaining a pressing trap or a broken line, and analysts consistently tell us it is the fastest part of their process.

Reconstruct and animate the key sequence

Some ideas need movement. Rebuild the sequence on the board, use saved states to capture each phase — the shape before the trigger, the press, the turnover — and the animation creator to play the movement through, with curved runs and staged timing. Export the result as an MP4 for a presentation or a PNG for a written report, watermark-free from the Basic tier. Folders keep each match's boards together, and notes hold your written observations alongside them.

Present it, live or exported

When it is time to deliver, you can present straight from the board — stepping through saved states like slides — or open a collaboration room so a coaching staff in three locations watches one live board move in real time. The board runs on any device and syncs automatically, and the interface is available in 11 languages, which matters when your staff room is multilingual.

Is it right for you?

The board is a good fit if your job is explaining football: opposition reports, post-match breakdowns, individual player reviews, or analysis you publish to an audience. It shines where speed matters — real lineups and data surfaces are pre-loaded, so a same-day breakdown is realistic.

It is not the right tool for everything. It is not a match-tagging platform: there is no season-long footage library, code windows or clip databases, so full-time performance-analysis departments will still want a dedicated video platform alongside it. It is not a data provider — you can visualise heat and shot maps for covered fixtures, but you cannot export raw event data or query an API. And its data surfaces cover professional fixtures in the database, not footage you film yourself. If your work is primarily statistical modelling rather than visual explanation, you need different software; if your work ends in a picture someone else has to understand, this is the tool for that step.