TransferLab scores another signing as football clubs see the power of player data

Scottish Premiership football club Motherwell has signed up to TransferLab, a powerful online football data scouting tool.

TransferLab is a cutting-edge software solution developed in a unique collaboration between specialist football consultancy Analytics FC and financial and business analysts LCP which helps football clubs improve and simplify recruitment decisions. TransferLab is now being used by clients in 7 European countries, including 4 English Premier League clubs.

Motherwell will be using the tool to support their scouting operations.

Martin Foyle, Head of Recruitment at Motherwell FC commented: “We are confident that, by enabling us to incorporate analytics into the scouting process, TransferLab will help us make more informed decisions when we are scouting for talent and will be a key tool to help boost our club’s performance.”

“It’s great to get Motherwell on board and using TransferLab.” said Jeremy Steele, Analytics FC’s founder and Managing Director. “The club have a keen awareness of the space and have really forward-thinking staff. We actually started speaking back in 2018 so it’s a tremendous vote of confidence in TransferLab V2 that we have now started a formal partnership.”

Bart Huby, Partner at LCP, added: “Data analytics is revolutionising many areas of business and football is no exception. In a competitive and global marketplace, TransferLab gives recruitment personnel at our clients unparalleled access to detailed performance metrics on up to 90,000 players across 80 different leagues worldwide. This gives them the ability at their fingertips to search for players based on their own user-defined parameters, compare and contrast, rate against other players and make projections about future performance potential.”

For more information about TransferLab V2, here’s our launch video which gives an overview of all the key features and functions.