ScoutDecision is a football decision-support and collaboration platform that helps clubs, federations, agencies, scouts, and coaches work in a more structured, efficient, and informed way. It centralizes data, workflows, and communication across the football ecosystem, supporting better sporting and operational decisions.
Origins
ScoutDecision was born in 2020 during a Master’s degree in Engineering at the Technical University of Lisbon, within a Decision Support Models course. The founding team applied analytical models to a real football case, working with an active sporting director to support a recruitment decision using objective data. Following the project’s success, the same team officially founded ScoutDecision in 2022.
What ScoutDecision Does
ScoutDecision’s services are built around three core pillars:
Scouting & Recruitment
Centralized player databases, scouting reports, shortlists, shadow teams, and recruitment tracking throughout transfer windows.
Training, Performance & Health
Planning sessions and matches, collecting wellness and RPE data, coordinating medical and performance departments, and integrating GPS data for load and injury prevention.
Transfers & Agency CRM
Player and market management for agencies, a built-in marketplace for clubs and agencies, live requests, and virtual matchmaking events during transfer windows.
What Makes It Different
ScoutDecision stands out for its flexibility and customization. Users can tailor reports, player profiles, evaluation criteria, and workflows to match their football philosophy. The platform integrates with existing systems, supports data migration, and adapts to each organization’s processes rather than forcing standardization.
The platform integrates with existing systems, supports data migration, and adapts to each organization’s processes rather than forcing standardization.
Global Reach & Partnerships
ScoutDecision works with football federations, clubs, and agencies worldwide, with strong presence in Europe and South America, and partners across Africa, Asia, and North America. Collaborations include national federations, professional clubs, and leading football agencies.
Vision
ScoutDecision’s long-term goal is to become a fully integrated football operations platform, connecting departments, professionals, and data in one ecosystem. With upcoming AI-driven tools, enhanced CRM capabilities, and an expanding events network, ScoutDecision aims to support faster, smarter, and more collaborative football decisions.
ScoutDecision’s long-term goal is to become a fully integrated football operations platform, connecting departments, professionals, and data in one ecosystem.
Our exclusive interview with ScoutDecision
How was ScoutDecision created? (Who, What, When, Where, Why)
ScoutDecision was officially founded in 2022, but its origins date back to 2020, during the founders’ Master’s degree in Engineering at the Technical University of Lisbon.
The idea emerged in a course called Decision Support Models, where students were challenged to apply analytical and mathematical models to real-world decision-making problems. Instead of choosing a theoretical case, the team decided to apply the model to professional football.
They worked directly with a highly respected and still active sporting director, who acted as a real decision-maker throughout the project. His role was essential in shaping the model, as he constantly challenged the team to adapt the academic framework to the realities of professional football.
The project focused on a concrete sporting decision: identifying and selecting the best central defender for the sporting director’s team, based on his own decision criteria combined with objective performance data.
The results exceeded expectations. Both the sporting director and the professor recognized the strong practical value of the approach. At that point, the team realized the concept could go far beyond an academic exercise.
Motivated by this validation, the same engineering team continued developing the idea and eventually transformed it into a professional product. This led to the official creation of ScoutDecision in 2022, turning an academic concept into a professional scouting and decision-support platform for the football industry.
What services does ScoutDecision offer?
ScoutDecision works with a wide range of football stakeholders, including clubs, federations, agencies, scouts, and coaches. Its services are structured around three main pillars, covering the full football decision-making and operational ecosystem.
Scouting and Recruitment
This pillar allows clubs, agencies, and scouts to centralize and organize their entire scouting workflow in one place. Users can manage player databases, scouting reports, shadow teams, shortlists, and recruitment processes across transfer windows.
The objective is to bring structure, clarity, and efficiency to recruitment preparation and decision-making.
Training, Performance, and Health & Wellness
ScoutDecision supports coaching and performance staffs in planning and managing training sessions and matches. It enables the collection of player feedback through RPE and wellness questionnaires and facilitates coordination across medical and performance departments, including physiotherapy, nutrition, fitness testing, and strength & conditioning.
The platform also integrates with GPS systems, allowing clubs to centralize data related to player load, well-being, and performance, helping with monitoring and injury prevention.
Transfer Windows and Agency Relationship Management
For agencies, ScoutDecision functions as a CRM, enabling the organization of player information, documents, videos, and market requests, including those coming from daily communication channels like WhatsApp.
This pillar also includes a built-in marketplace, active for over a year, where clubs and agencies can share live requests, showcase players, access a community of verified users, and connect with scouts for freelance opportunities.
In addition, ScoutDecision organizes virtual matchmaking events during each transfer window, facilitating private meetings and direct conversations between clubs, agencies, and scouts.
What differentiates ScoutDecision from other CRM and scouting software?
ScoutDecision stands out due to its flexibility, breadth of use cases, and strong partner-oriented approach.
The platform is designed to serve a wide range of football professionals, clubs, federations, agencies, scouts, and coaches, within a single ecosystem. It is highly customizable at the user level, allowing teams to tailor report templates, player profile fields, evaluation criteria, and data visualizations according to their own football philosophy and decision-making processes.
Another key differentiator is the close relationship with partners. ScoutDecision provides hands-on onboarding and ongoing support, including individual customizations, ensuring that the platform adapts to each organization’s workflow rather than forcing users to adapt to the software.
Finally, ScoutDecision acts as an aggregator for football organizations. It integrates with existing systems, supports data migration from Excel or other football tools, and centralizes information into one structured workspace, enabling more connected, efficient, and informed decision-making.
What partnerships or collaborations does ScoutDecision currently have?
ScoutDecision has built a strong and diverse network of collaborations worldwide.
At an institutional level, it works with several football federations, including India Football Federation, Nigerian Football Federation, and Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Federation.
At club level, ScoutDecision collaborates with teams across multiple continents, including Argentinos Juniors (Argentina), Estrela da Amadora (Portugal), Grêmio Novorizontino (Brazil), Audax Italiano (Chile), Equidad (Colombia), Ararat Armenia (Armenia), and Kolos Kovalivka (Ukraine).
The platform’s strongest markets are currently Europe and South America, but it also supports clients in the United States, Japan, and across Africa, reflecting its global reach.
Additionally, ScoutDecision works closely with football agencies such as ProEleven, Player Solution, and Sportsbloom, providing tools tailored to recruitment, player management, and transfer processes. These partnerships play a key role in refining the platform based on real-world football operations.
What’s coming next for ScoutDecision?
Looking ahead, ScoutDecision aims to further evolve into a complete decision-making and collaboration platform for football.
A major focus is the integration of AI, developed in a targeted and practical way. Rather than generic AI features, the goal is to create tools deeply connected to users’ workflows, helping them save time, extract insights from their own data, and make faster, better-informed decisions.
ScoutDecision is also investing heavily in strengthening its CRM capabilities, particularly around transfer windows, helping clubs and agencies bring structure and clarity to what is often a chaotic period.
In parallel, the company plans to expand its events ecosystem, scaling virtual matchmaking events and, in the future, introducing in-person events to further connect clubs, agencies, and scouts.
What are ScoutDecision’s long-term goals?
ScoutDecision’s long-term vision is to build an integrated platform that connects multiple departments within a club or agency, while also supporting freelance scouts and smaller technical teams.
The objective is to centralize data, workflows, and collaboration across the entire football organization, creating a unified environment that supports smarter decisions, stronger cooperation, and more efficient operations at every level of the game.