Dartfish: Continuing to drive the cutting edge of sports analysis

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Sports analysis is an ever-evolving process, with thousands of different organisations vying to be the best, each have to constantly improve, or face being left behind.

One company that has always been ahead of the curve is Dartfish.

Founded in 1998 as inMotion Technologies Ltd, Dartfish has driven the sports analysis space for over 20 years.

Created via the advent of the SimulCam in 1997, Dartfish has since launched revolutionary products and services such StroMotion, Dartfish TV, and several apps such as the MyDartfish Express Mobile App.

To maintain its position as a world leader, Dartfish is committed to providing leading services for its clients everywhere, featuring offices across the world, including in Australia.

In the world of football, Dartfish is celebrated for its world class video analysis.

Football Video Analysis 

Currently, Dartfish offers three tiers of video analysis for football, ranging from entry level solutions to club level packages.

Dartfish understands the uniqueness of each of its clients and thus all packages work on Windows, Android, IOS and Cloud. Additionally, all packages support 4K, Mpeg-4, and h.264 video file formats.

As a standard, Dartfish provides tagging tools in its packages, allowing coaches to bookmark key moments in game recordings to review later. This is bolstered by a range of annotation and compositing tools, and overlays to aid coaches in showcasing and detailing what is happening on the pitch.

Additionally, each analysis package provides video editing and publishing tools to create clips and videos to be shared.

Premium Video Analysis

Where Dartfish’s technical capability absolutely stars is in its two highest tiered packages.

Expanding on the basic video tools in the first package, the MyDartfish Soccer and Dartfish ProS solutions both supply clients with multi-video analysis, 3D drawings and analysis, plus live feeds, video encoding and tagging tools.

Through multi-video analysis, coaches can combine different videos to review and edit, bestowing greater freedom in how to decipher game situations.

3D drawing and analysis provides an entirely new dimension to scrutinise. 3D drawing enables coaches to annotate crosses and high ball movement far more effectively than in 2D.

However, the inclusion of live feeds, video encoding and tagging tools may stand as some of the more genius, and actively decisive revelations across the packages. Live feeds and encoding mean active game vision can be livestreamed for others to watch, such as support coaches and staff.

Live tagging builds upon the previously available tagging tools through being actively usable during a game. This is an incredibly useful tool for coaches as it allows them to quickly tag a key moment in a game to review later, without distracting them from the action.

Dartfish ProS

However, Dartfish does not stop there.

The most premium of their packages – the Dartfish ProS – features the company’s flagship products the SimulCam and StroMotion, plus Dartfish Live Collaboration.

SimulCam combines multiple videos of different actions to be combined into one, providing a direct comparison of how several athletes perform.

StroMotion captures footage of an event and showcases the evolution of how athletes move. Through these technologies, coaches can evaluate if athletes’ techniques are correct or if they are moving to the right positions.

The final feature, Dartfish Live Collaboration, allows for multiple users to join a shared timeline during a game. In the timeline, users can share, edit and delete tags they have added to review and analyse how a team is playing.

Conclusion 

In addition to their work with clients, Dartfish has received acclaim from the Croatian and Swiss national teams, and successful clubs like BSC Young Boys.

As a long-time leader in the sport analysis space, Dartfish continues to elevate the market with its world class technological solutions.

For any club looking to improve, Dartfish’s video analysis packages stand as an incredibly beneficial solution.

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Victory unites with Roasting Warehouse in culture-led partnership

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The Melbourne-based anf family-owned business will join the Victory family, uniting two institutions which represent the city’s culture and identity.

A partnership with local roots

As the newest partner of Melbourne Victory, Roasting Warehouse joins forces with a vital part of the city’s sporting landscape.

The club’s Managing Director, Caroline Carnegie, outlined why the partnership bears so much value to both parties.

“We are excited to collaborate with Roasting Warehouse, a community-oriented destination for high-quality coffee, proud of its foundations in Melbourne,” said Carnegie via official media release.

“Football and coffee sit at the epicentre of Melbourne’s culture. The two go hand-in-hand, consistently at the centre of the conversation that stirs Melburnians, which is no different to the conversation sport and Melbourne Victory stir in the State.”

Indeed, this is a partnership which combines the identity, passions and culture of an entire city, therefore giving it the foundations required for long-term, mutual success.

Representing the best of Melbourne

Both Victory and Roasting Warehouse are hugely successful in their respective industries. They are institutions with community-oriented philosphies, who pride themselves on craft and quality.

“We’re incredibly proud to partner with Melbourne Victory, a club that represents the heart, passion, and ambition of Melbourne,” revealed Roasting Warehouse Head of Brand, Alexander Paraskevopoulos.

“As a Melbourne-founded, family-run business, supporting a team that means so much to the local community feels very natural for us.”

Furthermore, through their high-quality blends, Roasting Warehouse will look to prepare Victory’s players and staff for high performances on the pitch as the seasons nears completion.

But this is about far more than just fueling athletes.

This is a partnership which embodies and unites two of Melbourne’s greatest strengths and cultural markers – a connection forged from the city’s very own DNA.

 

For more information about Roasting Warehouse, click here.

Marie-Louise Eta makes history as new Union Berlin head coach

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In an historic appointment, Eta will take over as head coach of Union Berlin until the end of the season.

History in the making

Previously the first female assistant coach in Bundesliga history with Union Berlin, Eta will now take the reigns of the men’s first team on an interim basis.

Currently, the club sit in 11th place in the Bundesliga table, but with only two wins so far in 2026, relegation appears an all-too-real prospect, and one which the club is desperate to avoid.

“Given the points gap in the lower half of the table, our place in the Bundesliga is not yet secure,” said Eta via official media release.

‘I am delighted that the club has entrusted me with this challenging task. One of Union’s strengths has always been, and remains, the ability to pull together in such situations.”

Eta will begin as Union’s new head coach with immediate effect, and will be in the dugout for the club’s matchup against Wolfsburg this weekend.

 

A step into an equal future

Eta’s appointment signals a major step towards a more level playing field in the football landscape.

Furthermore, Eta joins other coaches including Sabrinna Wittmann, Hannah Dingley and Corinne Diacre who, in recent years, have blazed a trail for female coaches to step into the men’s game.

Wittmann currently manages FC Ingolstadt in Germany’s third division, and was the first female head coach in Germany’s top three divisions.

In 2023, Dingley became caretaker manager of Forest Green Rovers, and thus the first woman to lead a men’s professional team in England.

Diacre, now head coach of France’s women’s national team, managed Ligue 2’s Clerment Foot between 2014 and 2017.

 

Final thoughts

The impact therefore, is that Eta’s appointment will show future generations of aspiring female coaches that men’s football is an equally viable and possible pathway as the women’s game.

The time is now to level the playing field.

And while it may be a short-term role, its effect on attitudes towards equality and fair opportunities in the game will hopefully resonate long after the season ends.

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