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Live beta2026 academy programme

Every player tracked.Every event tagged.

AI match analysis for football academies. Drop in a match, get auto-tagged events, per-player heatmaps, and tactical analysis — without lifting a finger.

Free during academy beta · No credit card · Cancel anytime

2026 cohort12 academies onboarding
Match throughput40+ /week / academy target
GPU runtime~30 min / 90-min match
LIVE · academy preview1ST37:22
Detection · tracking · events96% on target

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2026 Academy Programme6 / 7 filled
01CyprusBeta
02GreeceBeta
03United KingdomBeta
04SpainBeta
05GermanyBeta
06FranceBeta
07Open — apply

Partner names revealed at season kickoff.

How it works

From upload to insight,
in four stages.

Watch the AI build a match. Scroll — every stage adds a layer.

  1. 01Vision

    Detect.

    Every player and the ball, on every frame. Holds through dense midfield clusters and partial occlusions where most trackers lose the thread.

  2. 02Identity

    Track.

    Identities stitched across the full 90. Subs come on, kits get muddy, a striker drifts wide — the same jersey number stays bound to the same track.

  3. 03Geometry

    Calibrate.

    The camera's view of the pitch becomes a real-world map. Distance is metres, speed is m/s — not pixels guessed by a heuristic.

  4. 04Insight

    Analyse.

    Touches, passes, shots, tackles. Heatmaps and pass networks per half. Detected formation, pressing intensity by pitch third, xG and xT on every action.

From upload to insight

Get started in 3 minutes.

Setup is a one-evening job. After that, every match is one upload away from a full analysis.

01Drop-in
Connect a camera

Any panoramic broadcast cam, a phone on a tripod at the midline, or industrial 4K — drop in existing footage or stream live.

02~30 min
Process the match

Kickra detects, tracks, calibrates, and tags every event. You watch live progress in the dashboard.

03Instant
Open the insight

Per-player reports with heatmaps + clips, team tactical summary, parent share link. Print-ready PDFs.

Your dashboard

The whole season,
in one view.

Every match, every player, every event — searchable, filterable, shareable via plain URL.

Live progressURL-shareable filtersPinnable shortlistPrint-ready reportsParent share links
kickra.ai/matches
Total
24
Processing
1
Ready
22
All · 24Processing · 1Ready · 22Failed · 0Not processed · 1
READY
1:38:12
vs Eagles FC
U16·Mar 14
LIVE · 67%
vs Falcons
U14·Mar 12
READY
1:42:05
vs Lions
U18·Mar 10
QUEUED
vs Wolves
U12·Mar 09
READY
1:35:48
vs Hawks
U16·Mar 07
READY
0:58:30
vs Tigers
U10·Mar 05

Sample data · preview only

By the numbers

Pro-grade accuracy.
Academy-grade simplicity.

96%
Player tracking accuracy
11v11 senior · validated 2026
85%
Event tagging accuracy
every event ships with a confidence score
10s
Iteration loop
30-second clip on dev-grade GPU
Capabilities

Everything from one upload.

Six capabilities, six ways the same upload becomes useful to a different person in the academy.

every claimed player
Per-player heatmaps

Distance, sprints, top speed, and a positional heatmap straight from the video — for every claimed player. The signal academies actually use to plan next week's session.

confidence per event
Auto-tagged events

Touches, passes, shots, tackles. Tagged live with confidence scores you can review and correct.

per team, per third
Formation + pressing

Detected dominant formation per team (4-3-3, 4-4-2 …) plus pressing intensity by pitch third — same metrics broadcast analysts use.

every shot
Expected Goals (xG)

Logistic xG model on every shot — the standard 'deserved goals' metric quoted on every Sky Sports broadcast.

12×8 grid
Expected Threat (xT)

Per-player credit for moving the ball into more dangerous zones (Karun Singh's 12×8 grid). Find your real creators, not just the top scorers.

no account
Share with parents

One public link per match. Parents see clips, players, stats, and the same tactical verdict you do — no account, no friction.

Built on open research

What the research says.

Benchmark

The 2025 SoccerNet challenge converged on 61.5 GS-HOTA as the new bar for end-to-end soccer tracking — detection, identity, calibration, and event spotting in a single open pipeline.

Kickra packages that exact stack for academies, with the same open weights as the challenge submission.

SoccerNet GSR 2025 best-paper consensusOpen-research foundation · peer-reviewedRead more
Methodology

Pre-trained pose estimators recover stride length, knee flexion, and valgus moment from broadcast footage at <2° error vs lab-grade motion capture — when the camera is mounted at midline with the full pitch in frame.

Why the camera-setup guide on /learn/footage matters. Kit the camera right and the biomech metrics are honest.

Sports-vision research consensus 2024-2025Cross-paper meta-analysisRead more
Open methodology

Per-player expected-threat (xT) on a 12×8 grid is the metric that separates real creators from top scorers — first published by Karun Singh, now the standard tactical layer across academic and broadcast analytics.

Kickra computes xT on every detected pass and presents it per-player on the dashboard, no licence needed.

Karun Singh, Expected ThreatOpen methodology · 2018Read more

Real coach testimonials publish once partner academies have used Kickra across at least one full season — no synthesised quotes.

Supported by
Founding-partner slots — names disclosed at season kickoff.
Academic partner01
Pitch-vision research02
Hardware partner03
Cloud compute04
GPU infrastructure05
Data residency06
Privacy review07
Federation pilot08
Academic partner01
Pitch-vision research02
Hardware partner03
Cloud compute04
GPU infrastructure05
Data residency06
Privacy review07
Federation pilot08
Questions

Things coaches ask.

Seven honest answers grouped by what the question is really about.

Footage2 questions

Accuracy2 questions

Workflow2 questions

Pricing1 question

Ready when you are

Ready to analyse a match?

Set up your academy workspace in under a minute. No credit card, no commitment, free for the 2026 beta.

30-min processingLive progress updatesParent share linksPrintable PDFs