Football technology Articles

Grassroots football is back: friendlies are done, real matches are under way, and a generation of players has returned from a World Cup summer in hot pink boots. The pitches may be unusually dry, but one thing has not changed - coaches, clubs and parents are still stitching together far too many systems just to make football happen.

The European Commission has formally backed smarter tools for grassroots sport, but the conditions it sets - transparency, simplicity, coach-first design - expose the platforms grassroots football has been stuck with. Here's how to tell the difference between tools that help and tools that hype.