⚡ Curated Resource Collection · 2018–2026+

AWESOME AI × SPORTS ANALYTICS

High-quality AI, ML & Computer Vision resources for sports analytics — papers, datasets, benchmarks, competitions, and conferences.

2018–2026+ Coverage 10 Sports 50+ Papers 30+ Datasets

50+

Papers

20+

Datasets

10+

Sports

5+

Challenges

2026

Latest

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Soccer / Football

15 papers

🔬 Papers

2026SoccerMaster: A Vision Foundation Model for Soccer Understanding

2025FOOTPASS: Multi-Modal Multi-Agent Tactical Context Dataset for Play-by-Play Action Spotting

2025Multi-Agent System for Comprehensive Soccer Understanding

2025Towards Universal Soccer Video Understanding

2025SoccerNet 2025 Challenges Results

2024TacticAI: An AI Assistant for Football Tactics

2024OSL-ActionSpotting: A Unified Library for Action Spotting in Sports Videos

2023Towards Active Learning for Action Spotting in Association Football Videos

2021SoccerNet-v2: Holistic Understanding of Broadcast Soccer Videos

2018SoccerNet: A Scalable Dataset for Action Spotting in Soccer Videos

📦 Datasets & Benchmarks

2018

500 games · 764h · broadcast video + event labels

2021

500 games · >5M frames · spotting + replay grounding

StatsBomb Open Data

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Events + lineups + 360° freeze-frames

Wyscout Event Dataset

2019

7 competitions · spatio-temporal event logs

🏆 Challenges

SoccerNet Challenges — Action spotting, tracking, re-ID, GSR, calibration, captioning

2021–2026

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Basketball

6 papers

🔬 Papers

2025TrackID3x3: Multi-Player Tracking with Identification and Pose Estimation in 3x3 Basketball

2024PlayBest: Professional Basketball Player Behavior Synthesis via Planning with Diffusion

2024FineSports: A Multi-person Hierarchical Sports Video Dataset for Fine-grained Action Understanding

2022Sports Video Analysis on Large-Scale Data: NBA Dataset for Highlights and Commentating

2021Multi-Modal Trajectory Prediction of NBA Players

2019DeepHoops: Evaluating Micro-Actions in Basketball Using Deep Feature Representations

📦 Datasets & Benchmarks

2025

4,477h · 32,232 players · 20 fine-grained skills

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~2h · 7 viewpoints · multi-view basketball

DeepSport Basketball-Instants

2022

300+ images · ball/player/court annotations

🏆 Challenges

March Machine Learning Mania — NCAA tournament prediction

2014–2026

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American Football

4 papers

🔬 Papers

2025Fractional Tackles: Leveraging Player Tracking Data for Within-Play Tackling Evaluation

2024NFL Ghosts: Evaluating Defender Positioning with Conditional Density Estimation

2020Expected Hypothetical Completion Probability

2019DeepQB: Deep Learning with Player Tracking to Quantify Quarterback Decision-Making

📦 Datasets

nflverse / nflreadr

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Open NFL data ecosystem

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Baseball

4 papers

🔬 Papers

2026Interpretable Pre-Release Pitch Type Anticipation from Markerless Motion Capture

2026Spatiotemporal Cues and Experience Accumulation Effects for Pitch Type Prediction

2024PitcherNet: Powering the Moneyball Evolution in Baseball Video Analytics

2018Fine-Grained Activity Recognition in Baseball Videos

📦 Datasets

Lahman Database

2025

Historical MLB stats from 1871–2025

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Cricket

6 papers

🔬 Papers

2026Automated Wicket-Taking Delivery Segmentation and Tactical Analysis in Cricket Broadcasts

2025Modern Deep Learning Approaches for Cricket Shot Classification: A Comprehensive Baseline

2025I3D-AE-LSTM: A 2-Stream Autoencoder for Action Quality Assessment in Cricket

2024Medium Scale Benchmark for Cricket Excited Actions Understanding

2023STAN: Spatial-Temporal Awareness Network for Cricket Action Detection

2023Building Scalable Video Understanding Benchmarks through Sports Commentary Alignment

📦 Datasets

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21,528 matches · ball-by-ball structured data

2025

R package for Cricsheet + Cricinfo access

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Tennis

2 papers

🔬 Papers

2025Where Is The Ball: 3D Ball Trajectory Estimation From 2D Monocular Tracking

2023Learning Physically Simulated Tennis Skills from Broadcast Videos (Vid2Player3D)

2021Monocular Visual Analysis for Electronic Line Calling of Tennis

2019TrackNet: A Deep Learning Network for Tracking High-speed and Tiny Objects in Sports

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Hockey

6 papers

🔬 Papers

2025Ice Hockey Puck Localization Using Contextual Cues

2025A Multi-Class Ice Hockey Dataset for Object Detection

2023Rink-Agnostic Hockey Rink Registration

2021Puck Localization and Multi-Task Event Recognition in Broadcast Hockey Videos

2021Automatic Play Segmentation of Hockey Videos

2021Player Tracking and Identification in Ice Hockey

📦 Datasets

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25 clips · 82,305 frames · hockey tracking

2024

22 clips · MOT hockey benchmark

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Badminton / Racket Sports

6 papers

🔬 Papers

2024TrackNetV3: Enhancing ShuttleCock Tracking with Augmentations and Trajectory Rectification

2024Benchmarking Stroke Forecasting with Stroke-Level Badminton Dataset

2024The CoachAI Badminton Environment: RL Environment for Tactical Decision Support

2023ShuttleSet: A Human-Annotated Stroke-Level Singles Dataset for Badminton Tactical Analysis

2022MonoTrack: Shuttle Trajectory Reconstruction from Monocular Badminton Video

2021Exploring Long Short-Term Dependencies to Infer Shot Influence in Badminton Matches

📦 Datasets

2023

104 sets · 36,492 strokes

2024

Extended stroke forecasting benchmark

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Hammer Throw

1 paper

🔬 Papers

2026Hammer Throw Distance Estimation Using Deep Learning and Physics-Based Modeling

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Multi-Sports

5 papers

🔬 Papers

2025AthletePose3D: Benchmark Dataset for 3D Human Pose Estimation and Kinematic Validation

2025SPORTU: A Comprehensive Sports Understanding Benchmark for Multimodal LLMs

2024A Universal Protocol to Benchmark Camera Calibration for Sports

2023SportsMOT: A Large Multi-Object Tracking Dataset in Multiple Sports Scenes

2023Widely Applicable Strong Baseline for Sports Ball Detection and Tracking

📦 Datasets

2014

1,133,158 videos · 487 sports labels

2021

~3,200 clips · 37,701 actions · 902k boxes

2023

240 clips · basketball/football/volleyball MOT

2024

4M+ boxes · soccer/basketball/handball

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Research Venues & Workshops

CVSports @ CVPR

Main computer vision in sports workshop

Multimedia analysis in sports workshop

MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Broad sports analytics venue

Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference

Academic sports analytics conference

ASA Virtual Sports Analytics Conference

Sports data science conference

LISS Football Analytics Symposium

Football analytics symposium

Vision and Sports

ISVA annual conference in sports

Conference in sports

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Citation

@misc{ahmed2026awesome_sports_ai,
  title  = {Awesome-Sports-Analytics-AI},
  author = {Ahmed Endris},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://github.com/AhmedEH28/Awesome-Sports-Analytics-AI},
  note   = {GitHub repository}
}