<b>StatFootDB: A Longitudinal Multimodal Dataset of Football Match Events, Player Performa

Five consecutive seasons (2020/2021 to 2024/2025) of football data from the five major European leagues, comprising 8,979 matches. The dataset includes detailed match events, player performance metrics, and spatio-temporal shot trajectories. It was created by oualid dehbane and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling Expected Goals (xG) based on high-granularity shot trajectory data.
• Analyzing longitudinal player performance trends based on 55 individual player-match metrics.
• Studying team-level tactical patterns using 34 team-level statistical indicators.
• Conducting spatio-temporal analysis of match events across leagues and seasons.

Strengths

• Covers 8,979 matches across five major European leagues.
• Includes a manual audit of 50 matches (0.56% of the corpus) confirming 100% field-level accuracy for key indicators.
• Provides high-dimensional data with 55 player-match performance metrics and 34 team-level statistics.
• Longitudinal coverage spans five consecutive seasons (2020/2021 to 2024/2025).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its focus on five European leagues.

Provenance

Source

Fotmob.com

Collection Method

Collected via a custom-built Browser Automation System (BAS) in Python, implementing 'polite' crawling principles.

Time Range

2020/2021 to 2024/2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 12:42:52; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Premier League (England), LaLiga (Spain), Bundesliga (Germany), Serie A (Italy), Ligue 1 (France)