Football Video Analyser is an app aimed at amateur football coaches to help analyze their team's performance through annotated video evidence. The app allows coaches to highlight elements like team shape, positioning, and more in videos of matches or training and share with their team. This provides a cheap tool to improve grassroots teams' quality and tactics outside of training in a visually engaging format. The app aims to fill a gap for affordable video analysis at amateur levels and help develop youth and future professional players in England.

1. Football Video
Analyser

2. Football Video Analyser is aimed at amateur football coaches so that
they can analyse their teams’ football in order to further and better the
group, both tactically and skilfully.
This app is especially good as it has a very aesthetically pleasing style.
For players who learn visually, this would be very useful, as well as
providing the coach with evidence.
The main principle of Football Video Analyser is that coaches and
managers of amateur team (youth or senior) can annotate videos of
their team playing to share with the rest of the team.
Annotating videos of matches or training sessions has never been
easier, as you can highlight team shape, player positioning, line of sight
and much more, before sharing with the team or individual players!

3. At the very top end of the footballing ladder, the best teams
have access to the best video analysis equipment. Most
Premier League teams use expensive equipment and software
that require trained professional teams to man and operate.
The media also uses good graphical analysis, with the
BBC, Sky, ITV and newspaper websites using video analysis
for the general public..
However there is no good, cheap alternative for amateur and
grassroots teams.

4. How can I improve the team in a time-effective manner
without breaking the bank?

5. “Every top footballer was
once a grassroots player.
-Excel Sport
“Developing young
players is fundamental to
a healthy grassroots”
-Club Website
This will provide amateur coaches with a cheap way
to analyse their game and show the players outside
of training to allow for better value for time!
Grassroots football is important in maintaining the quality in
future professional and national teams.
This app will help improve the quality of grassroots and
amateur football and therefore improve the chances of
England having better players in the future!
“the desire to improve and
develop the game at all
levels; the provision of high-
quality technical support”
- FIFA Principles for a
successful grassroots football
programme at national level
That [England winning in Qatar] will
be a desert mirage unless English
grass-roots are properly watered.
-Telegraph
This app will help England because it will
raise the standard of football at grassroots
level.

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7. Chris Smithis the manager of Woodmansterne Hyde Football Club. A
young manager, he has no relations in the team, and is
coaching them around his full-time job in construction. But
even with a degree in sports analysis, his team sits one place
above bottom of the local u14s grassroots premier league as
he takes time out after a training session to speak to me.
“Football analysis is something I’m really interested in,”
he says. But how can he apply his wide knowledge in this
area as a grassroots coach? “We’ll work on a few
technical pieces, you know, corners and the like… but
there is nothing else really.”
I suggest an app that would allow him to capture footage
of his players and then annotate it with his own analysis.
“That sounds like a good idea… A really good idea!” He
grows in conviction.
Most amateur coaches, indeed most people, possess
smart, portable devices – be that phones or tablets.
This app is targeted at amateur coaches like
Chris, who currently uses his phone for texting and
his whiteboard for tactics, and in this way update
grassroots football.

8. Coach's Eye Free
Currently the only real competition for Football Video
Analyser is Coach’s Eye Free.
However Coach’s Eye Free has only limited analysis
tools, and is a generic annotator for all sports and athletics.
Football Video Analyser will be specific to football and have
an extensive tool selection specifically for football.

9. After long and arduous cross-examination of the three major
app stores, Hyperion XI have found that there are only three
types of competing apps… [Click on the thumbnails]
The Coach’s Organiser The Video Annotator The Stats Analyser

10. Next
Football Coach is an app designed for coaches to plan out
training sessions.
It is a very useful app that has little competition, but is
different to Football Video Analyser
However we can still take lessons from the app, such as the
toolbar on the right and adverts at the top.
Back The Coach’s Organiser

11. NextBack The Video Annotator
Other than Coach’s Eye Free, this sub-category offers little
resistance.
Sports Camera Analysis is similar but its tools and system is
attacked in reviews.
But Football Video Analyser can take a lesson from it with
uploading.

12. NextBack The Stats Analyser
These apps analyse statistics in professional games, or
statistics that you manually enter.
They are useful for seeing what works well and not so well on
the professional stage, but not so much for grassroots.
But we can still learn from these with advertising.

13. This app relies on the camera feature in apps. You can record
videos through the app or use videos already on your device.

14. Through user feedback, we have decided that we want a
tablet app and a phone app. We have also thought about
orientation – and have decided that the app should be able to
rotate and still look good.
One of the core principles of this app is that is easy to use.
Therefore it needs a clear interface.

28. Also, as our product uses videos heavily it is bound to take
up a lot of data.
So we have decided to compress the files and try not to store
them on the app as much as possible.
Our app will be better than competitors because of its wide
range of tools.
Player Tracker, Shape Finder, Distance Calculator, Speed Calculator, Spotlight, Line of
View, Defensive Positioning Highlighter, Technical Tool, Skill Highlighter, Set-Piece Analyser and
more!
But we have worked hard to ensure that all tools are still very
much a possibility, and not too difficult to make.
The one thing that no other apps do well is live video
analysis, as opposed to picture analysis.
It is possible to analyse a video, not a picture.

29. An aspect of the app is that it is cheap, so although there
may be some in-app purchases available, we like to think that
most money will be made in adverts.
We believe that many companies will want to
advertise, especially on the final videos, as they will be sent
to the players, so there will be a very specific and consistent
audience.
In terms of moving forward, we hope to release more apps
under the series of “[Sport] Video Analyser!” such as Squash
and Rugby.

30. We will sell our app with adverts in coach magazines and
websites.
Adverts on these websites, and also the FA’s website will be
good as they specifically target our potential users only, but
with a high footfall.
It would also be great if we could be affiliated with big
coaching or football organisations such as the FA or
grassrootsfootballcoach.com
Once people have the app itself, they can share their videos
on Facebook, and this in itself is great advertising.
Furthermore, we could set up a Facebook page for the app
and pay to have it advertised.
Finally it could be advertised on TV around football shows.

31. App Design Mock-up
Other than the AppShed mock-ups seen previously, we also
discussed our work with experts.
They raised some interesting points on technical
aspects, moving forward, and advertising/affiliations.
But they really liked the concept of the app, as I hope you do!