Sports Data: US company STATS acquires Franco-British company Prozone-Amisco

The American company STATS LLC, specialising in sports data, acquired the British company Prozone, which specialises in sports performance analysis software, on 05/05/2015. Prozone, founded in 1995 in Leeds (ENG), merged with its French counterpart Amisco in 2011. The Prozone-Amisco group supplies data to over 300 football clubs and media (TV broadcasters, Internet) and has 11 regional offices in Europe, Africa, North America, Asia and the Middle East.

With Prozone, STATS wants to expand its markets and add new sports to its business portfolio, as well as adding new technologies to its own performance analysis tools. In addition to Prozone, STATS (owned by the private equity firm Vista Equity Partners) has acquired three other companies since September 2014: Bloomberg Sports (analysis of sports data for the sports betting industry), The Sports Network (American news agency) and Automated Insights (content generation technologies from big data).

• Prozone maintains a statistical database on more than 100,000 players and athletes through their coverage of more than 12,000 sporting…