Football Python

For anyone looking to get started with or elevate their Python skills in football, including coaches, analysts, scouts, journalists, fitness staff, and data enthusiasts who want to apply Python tools step by step in real football scenarios.

By Luis Mosquera Toscano

When: September - October 2025

Duration: Six weeks or at own pace

Price: €795 + VAT

Course introduction

This course equips football analysts with the essential Python skills to unlock the power of football data in practice. Starting from the basics, you’ll follow a step-by-step journey through real-world cases, learning how to load, clean, transform, and visualize football data.

You’ll master key tools like Pandas, NumPy, BeautifulSoup, and Matplotlib, and learn to automate data collection from APIs and web sources. Through hands-on modules and practical applications—from match reports to scouting to building interactive apps—you’ll gain the confidence to use Python as a powerful tool across multiple departments in a football club.

The course concludes with a final project where you’ll develop a complete, shareable football web app in Streamlit. Already, hundreds of analysts are applying these Python skills to boost decision-making and innovation within clubs worldwide, under the guidance of instructor Luis Mosquera Toscano.

Course content

• Set up Python for football analytics workflows

• Learn core Python concepts using football-specific examples

• Load and manipulate data from Excel, CSV, and JSON files

• Automate data extraction from APIs like Wyscout and StatsBomb

• Scrape data legally from trusted free football sources

• Create visuals like heatmaps, pass maps, and radars with popular libraries

• Apply Python to real cases: scouting, match reports, and event analysis

• Build and share football analysis apps using Streamlit

• Complete a final project combining all skills learned

Pedagogical approach

  • Hands-on projects and exercises

  • Step-by-step tutorials

  • Real club scenarios and case studies

  • Interactive final project with feedback

  • Lifetime access and continuous first-hand support by our experts

Luis Mosquera Toscano

Luis Mosquera Toscano is a seasoned sports analytics professional with over five years of experience in managing football data projects and real-time data operations. He currently serves as the Football Data Coordinator at FIFA, where he coordinates technological innovations in football data management.

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