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Ranking of AI maturity across 32 football clubs — verified deployments, value-chain breadth and system longevity.
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Stupa Sports (ADRS/TTR)
A video-review system for sports that cannot afford Hawk-Eye.
Stupa Sports extended its Advanced Decision Review System from table tennis to rugby. At Ultimate Table Tennis Season 7, 14-15 synchronised cameras produce a verdict on specific officiating scenarios, serve toss height and angle, table edge calls, in under 20 seconds. At Rugby Premier League Season 2 in Hyderabad, the same multi-angle stack delivers rulings within two minutes, integrated into the live broadcast.
Why it matters
MLB x Hawk-Eye x TrackMan (Issue #3) and FIFA's semi-automated offside (Issue #4) showed what it takes to officiate with AI when budget is not a constraint. Stupa Sports applies the same principle to sports and leagues that don't have that budget: badminton certified by the BWF first, now table tennis and rugby on the same platform. It is a vendor building replicable officiating infrastructure for the sport the major vendors don't cover.
AI is becoming the operating system of sports organizations, and it's already separating leaders from the rest. AI on the Field measures where you stand today and builds the path to get there.
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Tottenham Hotspur x HPE
The stadium that fixes its own network.
Tottenham unifies its stadium's data center, campus and edge networking under a single agentic AI operations model managed through HPE Aruba Central. The network continuously analyzes user, application and network experience data, detects issues early and acts automatically.
NBL x iCoach
Commentators query the data live, in plain words.
The NBL integrated iCoach into its broadcast production from the NBL27 season, under a ten-year agreement. The platform combines data, video and tracking and lets production staff and commentators query it in natural language to surface historical context, player and team trends, milestones and emerging storylines during live play.
Buffalo Sabres x SprintAI
A GM who co-designed his own AI tool.
The Sabres bring SprintAI's agentic AI platform into hockey operations, connecting on-ice performance data, organizational workflows and front-office intelligence. The initial roadmap covers player performance and operations; development priorities are set jointly and the club's proprietary data stays protected.
NHL x Adobe
One fan profile across 32 clubs.