FIFA creates the 'Professional Football Platform'

The FIFA announced this Monday the launch of the “Professional Football Platform”, the The world's first digital database with essential figures and information on footballers, clubs, transfers and major competitions from the 211 member associations.

It stores data from a wide range of Performance indicators that reflect the situation of clubs and leagues around the world, with a detailed view of nearly 130,000 professional footballers and 4,400 professional clubs around the world.

FIFA indicated that the project is born “for the entire football community, with the aim of monitoring the professionalization of football “and thus fulfilling its” strategic objective of monitoring the development of football and promoting it around the world to make it truly global. “

He also announced that in the coming weeks access to the platform will be given to all member federations, so that they can always be up to date with the news of men's and women's football.