Digital performance tracking for amateur football
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2026-06-04
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Uganda Christian University
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Grassroots football draws millions of participants worldwide, yet most players still record performance through scattered channels such as paper notes, group chats, and one o! social posts. Records are hard to compare, easy to lose, and rarely support any real analysis. Tools built for elite clubs depend on GPS feeds, video pipelines, and specialist sta! that community leagues simply do not have. This report presents FootyStats, a mobile platform that lets amateur players and tournament organisers log match events during play, store them in a shared database, and view leaderboards, player profiles, and simple performance trends. The work combines user centred design with a lightweight client server setup and automated aggregation so that useful summaries can be drawn from ordinary event data rather than costly tracking hardware. Prototype testing showed that structured, low friction capture cuts down the fragmentation seen with informal methods, and that even basic match records can support meaningful summaries for grassroots users. The study offers both a practical path toward deployable amateur sports informatics and evidence that analytics can be delivered under the resource limits typical of community football.
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Undergraduate