Menlo Park, California and Bern, Switzerland December 17, 2024 – Kitman Labs, the global enterprise SaaS platform providing the only single, centralised operating system for performance intelligence in Sports, has today announced a new partnership with 17-time Swiss Super League champions, BSC Young Boys. This partnership sees Kitman Labs partner with one of the most familiar names in European football and a regular competitor in the UEFA Champions League and Europa League competitions.
The Bern-based club will deploy the full suite of solutions in iP: Intelligence Platform across the Men’s First Team. This will include the Performance Medicine, Performance Optimization and Coaching and Development Solutions, combining player-related medical, performance, and development data in one fully integrated and shared advanced operating system.
Kitman Labs’ Intelligence Platform (iP) is the only natively designed platform capable of unifying a club’s entire data landscape – aggregating all third party data sources and providers in one integrated platform designed to provide BSC Young Boys with a real-time, 360° view of their players The centralized platform is designed to ensure the consistent, accurate collection of data across the organisation; ultimately providing the insights and powering the advanced analytics necessary to inform both tactical and strategic decision-making across all Departments.
“While the collection of data is essential, the value of that data can only be realised if you’re collecting the right data, consistently, and have the ability to convert that data into practical intelligence. With Kitman Labs, we are putting the technology in place to do just that. By combining medical, performance and development data in one shared system, our coaches, staff, practitioners and players now have the ability to generate the insights necessary to address everything from injury prevention and recurrence to load management and rehab to performance benchmarking and player progression.
By streamlining the collection of data and providing the analytics, reporting and visualization tools necessary to communicate those findings, our practitioners can spend less time running analysis and more time applying those insights in training and on the pitch,” said Christoph Spycher, Sporting Director, BSC Young Boys
“BSC Young Boys have an incredible track record of success both domestically and in major European competitions. The Club and its leadership have made a clear commitment to leveraging technology, data and analytics to help inform and unlock player welfare and performance outcomes as they continue to elevate their level of play. We look forward to partnering with them to help achieve those goals on every front,” said Stephen Smith, CEO and Founder, Kitman Labs.
Kitman Labs has an established track record of working with top teams and leagues across a variety of sports, including soccer, basketball, rugby, and American football. The company’s technology is in use by some of the world’s most elite soccer organisations, including Bayer Leverkusen, Ipswich Town F.C., Fulham F.C., Chelsea F.C. and Liverpool F.C. Kitman Labs recently announced the launch and deployment of The Football Intelligence Platform across all Premier League Academies.
iP: Intelligence Platform represents the industry’s largest dataset of talent, performance, and medical data for all stages of the athlete lifecycle.
About Kitman Labs:
Kitman Labs is the world’s leading sports science and performance intelligence company. Kitman Labs powers iP: Intelligence Platform, the advanced operating system used by the largest and most innovative leagues, teams and regulatory bodies in elite Sport and Defense. Our software solutions – Performance Medicine, Performance Optimization, Coaching & Development and League Operations – have been designed to optimise human performance; enhance overall health, wellness and longevity; reduce injury risk; and drive operational efficiencies and value. Kitman Labs is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Dublin.
About BSC Young Boys:
The Berner Sport Club Young Boys (YB) is a Swiss soccer club that was founded in 1898. The first team has won 17 Swiss championships and 8 Swiss cups. YB is one of the most internationally successful Swiss soccer clubs and reached the semi-finals of the European Champions Cup in the 1958/59 season. The club’s colors are yellow and black.
Media Contacts:
BSC Young Boys:
medien@bscyb.ch
Kitman Labs
The PHA Group
kitmanlabs@thephagroup.com
