Sports data analyst

Sports data analysts work with data to support team and athlete performance and decisions. The work involves gathering and analysing performance and game data, building metrics and reports, identifying insights, and providing the data-driven analysis that increasingly informs coaching, recruitment, and strategy in sport.

They work for teams, clubs, and organisations. The role suits analytical, sports-aware, detail-oriented people who can handle and analyse data rigorously, build useful metrics and reports, find actionable insights, and combine data skills with the sports understanding to turn numbers into analysis that coaches and decision-makers can actually use.