ACF Fiorentina is proud to announce a partnership with StatsBomb, the industry leading data provider that is helping the scouting teams of some of the world’s best football clubs with its cutting-edge football data and analytics.

The partnership with StatsBomb demonstrates our commitment to football analytics and we are excited to become the latest European club to benefit from StatsBomb's advanced data. 

ACF Fiorentina will be able to implement StatsBomb's event data across its recruitment, performance and opposition analysis departments.  The unparalleled granularity of the contextual data will enable Fiorentina to analyse its performances in greater depth and capture key insights from the most accurate Expected Goals (xG) model in the industry. 

Speaking about the partnership, Joe Barone, CEO of ACF Fiorentina, said: “We are entering a very important next phase in the growth of Fiorentina.  As we continue our journey, it is fundamental for the Club to have tools that are at the forefront of the industry such as StatsBomb”

Shergul Arshad, Chief Commercial Officer, StatsBomb, said: “StatsBomb couldn’t be prouder to work with Fiorentina.  The club has long been a mainstay in European football and we are hoping that our data can help give the club what is needed to get back into the European club cup competitions.”

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About StatsBomb

StatsBomb is the world’s fastest growing football data company. Founded by former analyst Ted Knutson, StatsBomb was formed to empower data analysis teams by ensuring they have access to the best football data set ever created.

Having started as an analytics blog, StatsBomb initially progressed to consulting on data-driven recruitment and performance analysis for professional teams. In 2018, having become frustrated with limitations of the data available at the time, StatsBomb acquired ArqamFC, a data collection company based in Cairo, Egypt, and started to collect and supply its own data.

The introduction of StatsBomb data was a turning point for the analysis of football as it introduced previously unavailable metrics such as pressures, the height of the ball at the point of shot impact, goalkeeper positioning, freeze frames for shots and the foot with which each pass is played.

In 2021, StatsBomb improved this data even further with the launch of StatsBomb 360, adding a snapshot of all visible player locations to the more than 3,300 on-the-ball events that are collected per match.

Having gained rapid traction since its inception, StatsBomb is now servicing customers across the professional game, as well as betting and gaming operators, and is active in over 25 countries.

Contact details: will.humphrey@statsbomb.com / Marketing Executive