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FIFA Launches First-Ever Digital Platform For Professional Football

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BEVERLY HILLS, January 26, (THEWILL) – On Monday, world football governing body, FIFA, launched the FIFA Professional Football Landscape. It is the first-ever digital database of key facts and figures on players, clubs, transfers and top-tier competitions across all 211 member associations, with all that comprehensive data available to access.

The digital database will bring together under the FIFA Landscape, information from a broad spectrum of key performance indicators, reflecting the status of clubs and leagues on a worldwide scale. This collation in the new digital tool will offer a detailed visual overview of the game right from the database.

The idea behind the creation of the FIFA Professional Football Landscape is to have the global football community monitor the expression of professionalisation of football. This goal is in line with FIFA’s strategic objective of mapping and promoting football development around the world in order to make the game truly global and accessible.

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With a staggered accessibility process, all member associations will be given access to the platform over the coming weeks. With access, all 211 member associations will be enabled to provide updates on both men’s and women’s football on a regular basis to keep the database consistently up to date.

The Landscape of professional football will provide a fascinating insight into the structure of professional football across the world. People seeking factual information about the game of football will have a one-stop shop for all their enquiries including the following takeaways:

• Nearly 130,000 professional players and more than 4,400 professional clubs have been identified around the world.
• 91 per cent of member associations have implemented a national club licensing system.
• 65 per cent of national top-tier competitions are organised by the respective football association.
• 54 per cent of domestic competitions around the world follow a traditional home-and-away format.
• 88 per cent of competition organisers negotiate their TV rights deals collectively.

It has the potential of becoming football’s very own Wikipedia as member associations get on board to partake in the information-collecting digital database and buy into FIFA’s dedication to drive progress through information sharing.

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Jude Obafemi is a versatile senior Correspondent at THEWILL Newspapers, excelling in sourcing, researching, and delivering sports news stories for both print and digital publications.

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