ANNOUNCEMENT: Kognia expands league coverage to enhance recruitment and scouting offering
- Mar 23
- 2 min read
Kognia is delighted to announce its expanded coverage across several European competitions to support teams across recruitment and scouting with detailed, unique tactical insights.
While used today primarily across first-team and academy analysis, Kognia tactical insights can help provide a deeper level of information when it comes to evaluating potential transfer targets, and identify and breakdown specific, in-depth behavioural characteristics in the context of a certain moment on the field.
Following our recently published CTO update blog which shared further details on our recent semantic layer project, clubs will now not only have direct access to a wider breadth of league and competition coverage from Kognia, but will also have the ability to easily access, analyse and interrogate Kognia’s detailed tactical insights within their existing workflows.
Kognia insights are underpinned by the idea that the actions on the pitch do not happen in isolation; they are interconnected with their environment, which in the case of football is team mates, opponents, the pitch and the ball.
The article below further breaks down how Kognia metrics capture holistic information encompassing both event and tracking data to provide detailed player tactical insights.
An applied example: assessing midfielders using Kognia support metrics
We provide a brief example here of how Kognia can enhance a team’s scouting and recruitment processes, looking at how Manchester United may approach replacing Casemiro this summer. In our example, the “shortlist” has already been identified, and Kognia insights can provide that new layer of due diligence ahead of making a major signing.
The graphic below demonstrates how Casemiro excels when it comes to relieving pressure from teammates.
When a teammate is under pressure, Casemiro is consistently available in positions that relieve pressure, and ones where play can be progressed (with four opposition players bypassed from passes to him)
On the other hand, Bruno Guimarães tends to find himself in higher pressurised locations, thereby not relieving his team of pressure, which leads to a higher chance of possession being overturned
Casemiro’s movements take Manchester United from high pressure situations to low pressure
This example provides just one small snapshot of how Kognia's tactical metrics can provide a level of insight that goes deeper when it comes to understanding a player's characteristics and how they behave on the pitch.
Get in touch to find out more about Kognia’s expanded recruitment coverage
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