AFC Bournemouth Announces Catapult Partnership

07 May 2017 | tshego

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AFC Bournemouth has announced a three-year partnership with wearable technology and performance analytics company, Catapult, becoming the ninth Premier League club to adopt the technology.

Catapult, an Australian sports analytics company that has offices in Leeds and London, engineer wearable devices and integrated proprietary software that monitors athlete movement on the pitch. Recording data at over 1,000 data points per second, the Catapult system shows sports scientists, performance analysts and managers how fast players are, how far they’ve run, and a host of other performance-related metrics that summarise the volume, intensity and explosiveness of each training or match.

Already working with six Premier League teams going into the 2016/17 season, AFC Bournemouth are the most recent club to join the ‘wearables revolution’ in professional football.

Catapult also won the Cutting Edge Sport Award in association with Sela Sport at this year’s BT Sport Industry Awards for its partnership with the England and Wales Cricket Board.

Catapult, chief commercial officer, Steve Power said: “We are excited to welcome AFC Bournemouth. As the latest in a number of Premier League clubs to recently join Catapult and use our world-leading technology to confidently support the management of their players through the first team and under-21s for at least the next three seasons.”

Catapult, head of UK Sales, Curt Taylor added: “Working closely with yet another club from the most physically-demanding football league in the world,” Taylor said. “In addition to working closely with more forward-thinking and innovative individuals like Dan Hodges, head of sports science, AFC Bournemouth, will ensure that both Catapult and our clients continue to benefit from the most innovative, reliable and applicable player monitoring technology in the world”.

The club will be utilising 40 OptimEye S5 devices to monitor outfield players from their first team and under-21 programme, as well as 10 OptimEye G5s to monitor goalkeepers throughout the club.