SoccerCoach4U: An Intelligent Computing based Soccer Sports Management System

Abstract

Soccer is one of the most-watched and popular sports on the planet. It facilitates the players to develop tactical awareness, sportsmanship, endurance, coordination, stamina, and strategic thinking. A well-designed soccer management system can significantly reduce manual effort, eliminate bias, reduce subjectivity, and improve the collective performance of players and the team. Therefore, developing a holistic algorithmic framework for effective soccer management is a need of the hour. In this work, a complete framework for soccer sports management system is presented that enables the selection of team line-up by estimating individual player performance in terms of two types of ratings: non-goal impact ratings (NGIR) and goal impact ratings (GIR) integrated with strategic planning method for estimation of soccer sports match outcome and game tactic technique. The proposed research has built a soccer sports management prototype based application named SoccerCoach4U that assists soccer sports management. This developed system is tested on 300 users and validated by the domain experts from soccer sports. This prototype-based application provides a user-friendly interface that allows the user to input in-game event data, player data, or half-time match data and provides effective decision making for players, coaches, managers, and sports enthusiasts to enhance performance.