DOHA: Qatar Stars League (QSL) and Prozone yesterday announced the extension of their agreement, which started back in 2011.

Prozone is a PC-based performance analysis system that delivers insights by providing accurate, objective, and relevant data and information to coaches and players. Apart from QSL, Prozone has over 250 clients globally, including the Premier League, Serie A, Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1, etc.

Some of the work that has been done in the QSL over the last couple seasons includes studying trends in the league and benchmarking the QSL against the best leagues in the world. Prozone has analysed over 800 QSL matches and with the GPS system provided by VXSport, the latest addition to the league, it will now be easier to collect and combine the data captured by both systems and therefore improve the league further.

Present at the press conference were QSL’s chief of Competition and Football Development Ahmad al-Harami, QSL Football Development supervisor Miguel Heitor, Prozone’s Business Development manager (Middle East) Martin Bland and VXSport director Jamie Tout.

Al-Harami expressed pleasure on having Prozone on board with the QSL and that the new agreement would be the most advanced and holistic yet.

Bland said: “Our target is to improve the overall level of the competition in the QSL, this means improving the clubs and the players but also the national team as well as the youth system. This agreement I believe will help us achieve these objectives.”

Tout said: “We are an innovative New Zealand company who work with a magnitude of different sports across the world. In my opinion, this is by far and away the most innovative project of its kind of any sport across the world and of all the teams that we work with. On this scale, it is also the largest of its kind. This shows great synergy from us all because we will be providing a link between the technical, the tactical and physical data and bringing it all together for the benefit of Qatari football.”