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ATHLETE MONITORING SOFTWARE.

Coaching &
development

From individual player progression to holistic, organization-wide assessment, turn your coaching and talent development strategy into consistent, repeatable success.

FIND YOUR FORMULA FOR SUCCESS

Leagues and teams deal with vast, disconnected data about coach and player development, potential, training, game performance and organizational depth.

Kitman Labs provides the infrastructure and insights that unify data sets, systemize your talent development pipeline and optimize coaching and talent strategies that lead to repeatable success over time.

Development Principles & Curriculum Management

Systemize pathways and create repeatable success with a syllabus for every phase of development aligned with your principles of play or characteristics needed in the transfer market.

INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS

Set individual goals and action plans to optimize technical, tactical, physical/mental and social development. Use training, game, classroom, nutrition and wellness data to objectively measure progress.

Assessments & Benchmarking

Collect and integrate ratings, reviews, and testing data to evaluate player performance and development against other players and cohorts.

Session Planning & Analysis

Create and communicate training plans aligned with performance and development objectives; track and analyze session activities and quality as well as player participation and assessments.

Game Planning & Analysis

Build and share game rosters; track and analyze game results, team formations, player performance, minutes, and disciplinary actions.

Communication & Player Engagement

Connect with players,coaches, and staff through real-time messaging and centralized calendar management.

DRILL LIBRARY

Simplify creating training plans and ensure consistent standards for tactical and technical development with a structured, unified catalogue of drills.

CENTRALIZED SCHEDULING

Streamline and centralize all game, training, education, and other event scheduling and communication.

GAME EVENT CAPTURE

With an easy to use pitch view, capture details for the team and each player: Minutes in position, Goals, Cards, Assists, Substitutions.

SESSION AND GAME EVALUATION

Enhance analysis and improvement of training plans and match preparation by capturing a coach’s qualitative feedback on sessions and games.

PARTICIPATION MANAGEMENT

Gain a complete picture of player availability and time spent in games and training with detailed participation tracking.

REPORTING AND ANALYSIS

Visual dashboards for Top to Bottom Talent Assessment, Pipeline Analysis, Individual Development, Coaching and Session Analysis, Game Performance and more.

SESSION AND GAME COLLECTION

Tie subjective assessments and objective objective metrics from third party systems, e.g. GPS or match data solutions, to games and training sessions.

PLAYER STATUS & ALARMS

See which athletes need attention with a configurable, consolidated snapshot of key player metrics and player status against those metrics.

FORMS & DATA COLLECTION

Configurable system to gather input and information from players, coaches and staff via mobile, kiosks or the web.

COACH APP

Smartphone app for staff and coaches to view player status and alerts.

PLayer APP

The home of the athlete. Where athletes can see their key statistics, schedules, and messages. Submit individual sessions, wellness, RPE, and keep up to date

OPEN and OPTIMIZE PLAYER PATHWAYS

Develop talent faster and more cost effectively - for your organization or the commercial market - with a structured framework to collect,analyze and optimize data and inform decision-making about players, coaches and your program at every stage of play.

Seen & Heard

SBJ Live

Integrating Data and Philosophy from Academy to First Team

Ian Buckman, Academy Manager at Brighton Hove Albion F.C., highlights the club's integrated approach to player development, aligning the academy's philosophy with the first teams. The club effectively tracks player progress by sharing profiles and data between coaching and recruitment. Their Football Intelligence Platform ensures coaching consistency and evidence-based player development, reinforcing the club's commitment to data-driven practices.

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ADU

Strategic Technology Adoption for Holistic Student-Athlete Care

Mark Coberley, Associate Athletics Director for Sports Medicine at Iowa State University, emphasizes the importance of a question-first approach when adopting new technology in athletic program development. He argues against the common mistake of purchasing technology without a clear purpose. Instead, he advocates for identifying key questions that need answers before choosing the appropriate technology.

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Sky Sports

Impact of Growing Fixture Schedule and Congestion on Injury - or Not

As footballers face an increasing number of fixtures across club and international competitions, concerns about rising injury levels are growing. Stephen Smith, CEO of Kitman Labs, addresses the potential impact of fixture congestion on player injuries on SkyNews, emphasising that it's not just about the number of games but also how teams train, prepare for congestion, and manage player rotation. While some speculate that more games might increase risks, Stephen stresses the importance of data-driven analysis.

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Michigan State University

Unified Data Platforms, Streamline Workflows

On the Game Changer Podcast, Renee Kleszczynski from Michigan State University, discusses consolidating the efforts of performance coaches, athletic trainers, and strength coaches by integrating their data in one unified platform. This allows them to focus solely on their roles without additional tasks. This allows for the maintenance of accurate records and enables advanced capabilities and insights, which ultimately enhances their contributions and the overall performance management of athletes.

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University of Georgia

Mobilising Data for Different Users

On the Game Changer podcast, Joshua Rucci from the University of Georgia, shares insights about using flexible, configurable reporting to mobilise data and support various sports and their unique user needs. He explains how coaches can track metrics such as daily jump performance and compare them to historical data. Additionally, he implemented customisable, alarmed dashboards using a simple color-coded system based on rolling averages, allowing coaches to identify areas needing attention quickly.

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Sky Sports

Inside Tactics: The technology that helped Ipswich reach the Premier League

Sky News and Sam Blitz visited the Ipswich Town Training Grounds to interview Director of Performance Andrew Rolls and Kitman Labs Founder & CEO Stephen Smith. They discussed the club's multifaceted partnership with the high-performance technology company and its role in its successful bid for promotion to the Premier League.

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This partnership represents a significant development in how clubs and the Premier League can use data to support elite player development and personal growth across all club academies.
Kitman Labs and the Columbus Crew are both deeply committed to fundamentally changing how data is used in sport to optimise performance, reduce injury risk, support operations, and ultimately drive success across every aspect of the organisation, from the First Team, through Crew 2 and to the Academy.
We have been able to combine data sets from multiple disciplines and data streams to calculate, measure and evaluate impact for the purpose of player development. Furthermore, the platform has supported key stakeholders from across the ecology of the club to reason, reflect and strategise as a consequence of these data-led insights.

Tony Scholes

Chief Football Officer

Tim Bezbatchenko

President & General Manager

Tom Hounsell

Academy Insights Manager, PDP Coach

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