kloppy 3.17.0

Standardizing soccer tracking- and event data

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Soccer Data Processing, Simplified

Each data provider uses its own proprietary formats, event definitions, and coordinate system to capture soccer match data. This lack of standardization makes it difficult to build software or perform analysis across multiple providers. Kloppy solves this challenge by introducing a vendor-independent data model for both event and tracking data. It also streamlines data preprocessing, ensuring seamless integration into your data analysis and video analysis workflows. By standardizing and simplifying access to soccer match data, kloppy aims to be an essential building block for anyone working with soccer data.

Table of Contents

• Supported data providers
• Main features
• Where to get it
• Documentation
• Contributing to kloppy
• License

Supported data providers

Kloppy provides support for loading data from the following providers:

Provider	Event Data	Tracking Data	Public Data	Docs	Notes
DataFactory	✓			↗
Hawkeye (2D)		✓		↗	Joint tracking data is not yet supported
Metrica	✓	✓	↗	↗
PFF	⧗	✓	↗	↗
SecondSpectrum	⧗	✓		↗
Signality		✓		↗
SkillCorner		✓	↗	↗
Sportec	✓	✓	↗	↗
StatsBomb	✓		↗	↗	Includes 360 freeze frame data support
Stats Perform	✓	✓		↗	Includes support for MA1, MA3, and MA25 data feeds
Opta	✓			↗	Includes support for F7, F24 and F73 XML data feeds
Tracab		✓		↗
Wyscout	✓		↗	↗	Includes support for v2 and v3 data

✓ Implemented    ⧗ In progress or partial support

Main features

Here are just a few of the things that kloppy does well.

🗄️ Loading data

Kloppy implements a standardized data model that can load event and tracking data from the most common data providers, supporting both public and proprietary data. Moreover, it does not matter where or how the data is stored: kloppy can handle compressed files and load data directly from the cloud.

from kloppy import sportec

dataset = sportec.load_open_event_data(match_id="J03WMX")

🔍 Querying data

Video analysts spend a lot of time searching for bespoke moments. Often, these moments follow recognizable patterns—like pass, pass, shot. Kloppy provides a powerful search mechanism based on regular expressions, enabling you to find these bespoke moments more quickly and easily.

goals = dataset.filter("shot.goal")

🔄 Transforming data

Different data providers use different coordinate systems, which can make combining datasets challenging. Additionally, it can be convenient to change the orientation of the data or normalize pitch dimensions for specific analyses. Kloppy handles these data transformations seamlessly.

goals_ltr = goals.transform(
    to_coordinate_system="opta",
    to_orientation="ACTION_EXECUTING_TEAM"
)

💾 Exporting data

Once your data is in the right shape, export it as a Polars or Pandas dataframe for efficient analysis, or as SportsCode XML to support your video analysis workflow. Kloppy's data model is also compatible with other popular soccer analytics libraries.

df_goals = goals_ltr.to_df(
  "player", 
  "coordinates_*", 
  assist=lambda event: event.prev("pass"),
  engine="polars"
)

Where to get it

The source code is hosted on GitHub at: https://github.com/PySport/kloppy.

The easiest way to install kloppy is via pip:

pip install kloppy

You can also install from GitHub for the latest updates:

pip install git+https://github.com/PySport/kloppy.git

For more details, refer to the installation guide.

Documentation

The official documentation is hosted at https://kloppy.pysport.org.

Contributing to kloppy

Kloppy can only exist because of a passionate and dedicated open-source community. All contributions, bug reports, bug fixes, documentation improvements, enhancements, and ideas are welcome. An overview on how to contribute can be found in the contributing guide.

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Sponsors

Kloppy is powered by PySport (non-profit, RSIN: 866294211). Consider contributing or donating to ensure its longevity!

License

Kloppy is distributed under the terms of the BSD 3 license.