StatsBomb
The world’s fastest growing sports data company
£4.31m revenue 2021
22 employees (in Bath)
Founded 2017
Unlimited ambition
StatsBomb is the world’s fastest growing sports data company. Founded by analyst Ted Knutson, and Bath based Charlotte Randall, StatsBomb was formed to empower data analysis teams by ensuring they have access to the best data sets ever created.
Having started as an analytics blog, StatsBomb initially progressed to consulting on data-driven recruitment and performance analysis for professional teams. In 2018, having become frustrated with limitations of the data available at the time, StatsBomb acquired ArqamFC, a data collection company based in Cairo, Egypt, and started to collect and supply its own data and convert to a SAAS based organisation.
Having gained rapid traction since its inception, StatsBomb is now servicing customers across the professional game, as well as betting and gaming operators, and is active in over 25 countries.
Last year, we also expanded in new sports markets with our CEO, Ted Knutson, spending six months embedded in the Miami Hurricanes Football Team to learn about data & analytics in American Football.
Ted's experience was highly successful as it has enabled us to create a StatsBomb analytics product specifically for American Football.
Unlimited innovation
StatsBomb’s primary USP’s are a combination of accurate, quality data coupled with our people - our expertise, skills and level of customer support. Our football data is created from video by a combination of complex Computer Vision and human data tagging using our proprietary software. The unparalleled granularity of the contextual data enables our customers to analyse player and team performance in greater depth and capture key insights.
StatsBomb also supports the analytics community by offering a subset of the same high quality data we provide to elite teams, for free to individuals and educational establishments. The aim is to allow individuals to develop their analytical skills and experiment with industry-leading data to create a pool of future analysts.
Unlimited potential
StatsBomb was founded by Bath-based Ted Knutson and Charlotte Randall in 2017 and continues to have a physical presence in the city. Originally based at Bath University's Innovation Centre, we outgrew our space in 2020, moving to 100% remote working during the pandemic.
In the latter half of 2021, we signed up with Bath’s Guild co-working space to provide a physical working environment for our local employees whilst supporting an independent business. We closed 2021 by signing up for a combined two days of permanent office space and three days of hotdesking per week.
We’ve also enabled StatsBomb's Video Analyst, Carl Carpenter, to work voluntarily at Bath City FC as a Performance Analyst at no cost to them as we want to help progress the club
Unlimited talent
At StatsBomb, we have created a culture that promotes a shared sense of responsibility and reward for our success. Our company is 48% employee owned as all employees receive shares when they join.
As the company has enjoyed continued success, StatsBomb employees have been rewarded for their efforts with an improved benefits package. The new benefits include increased annual leave allowance to 25 days as standard for all employees, 4 wellbeing days in addition, paid days off for their birthday and equal generous parental leave for new mothers and fathers.
We’re also committed to improving diversity in the industry. StatsBomb was recognised by JP Morgan as one of the Top 200 Female-Powered businesses in the UK in 2021, due to Bath-based Founder & COO, Charlotte Randall.
Having gained rapid traction since its inception, StatsBomb is now servicing customers across the professional game, as well as betting and gaming operators, and is active in over 25 countries.
Did you know…
Bath Community
We care about local causes. StatsBomb donated £25,000 to Bath City FC and The Bath City FC Foundation last year to help support our local team and surrounding community throughout the pandemic. The Foundation used the money to deliver food parcels, holiday clubs and a new project called Reconnecting Twerton during the pandemic. Our donation also helped them to set up a befriending and iPad training project, which supports the area's people who need it most.
We support local businesses Every month we hold team social events at and in support of local businesses, including BrewDog, The Locksbrook Inn and The Bath Brewhouse. We utilised the Doubletree Hilton Hotel in Walcot Street for our two October Team Days where we brought together 100 members of staff from across Europe, and hired a couple of football pitches at Bath's Odd Down Football Club for an internal friendly match. Sadly we were unable to bring our contingents from SB South in 2021 due to the travel restrictions but we are committed to continuing this into the future.
We held our second annual conference at Chelsea FC's Stamford Bridge Stadium with over 400 guests and coveted speakers from within the industry including Head of Analytics at Liverpool FC, Ian Graham. To film and live stream this event, we hired Bath-based video production company, Suited and Booted, a Limited Community Interest Company, which benefits the local community rather than private shareholders.
Founded
StatsBomb is the world’s fastest growing football data company. Founded by analyst Ted Knutson, and Bath based Charlotte Randall, StatsBomb was formed to empower data analysis teams by ensuring they have access to the best football data set ever created.
Having started as an analytics blog, StatsBomb initially progressed to consulting on data-driven recruitment and performance analysis for professional teams. In 2018, having become frustrated with limitations of the data available at the time, StatsBomb acquired ArqamFC, a data collection company based in Cairo, Egypt, and started to collect and supply its own data and convert to a SAAS based organisation.
Where are you based?
Bath
Global
Yes – we have 100+ customers around the world and employees in Egypt, Europe and the US.
Contact details
www.statsbomb.com