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Opta

Opta is a sports data and analytics company that collects, curates, and distributes standardized data on professional sports. It is best known for comprehensive football statistics, but it also covers other sports such as cricket, rugby, basketball, and tennis. Opta’s data typically includes event-level information from matches—goals, assists, shots, passes, tackles, fouls, cards, substitutions—and contextual metadata like lineups, formations, venue, and timestamps, gathered in real time and complemented by post-match validation.

The data is used by a wide range of customers, including broadcasters and media outlets for live

As part of the broader sports data ecosystem, Opta emphasizes data quality, standardization, and broad coverage

coverage
and
match
reports,
sports
leagues
and
clubs
for
performance
analysis
and
scouting,
bookmakers
and
fantasy
games
for
statistics-driven
products,
and
developers
who
build
applications
on
top
of
data
feeds.
Opta
often
licenses
data
through
feeds
and
APIs
that
provide
structured
access
to
current
and
historical
records,
enabling
analytics
platforms,
data
visualization,
and
research.
across
leagues
and
competitions
worldwide,
with
ongoing
efforts
to
expand
to
additional
sports
and
data
categories.
The
company
collaborates
with
partners
to
deliver
data
for
broadcasts,
match
dashboards,
and
analytics
tools,
supporting
a
range
of
analytical
and
visualization
applications
in
sports.