Every team competing at the FIFA World Cup 2026 used FIFA AI Pro, the AI-powered football analytics platform jointly developed by Lenovo and FIFA, to access advanced tournament data and match insights throughout the competition.
Built on Lenovo’s AI Factory and powered by the company’s xIQ agent platform, FIFA AI Pro analyzes millions of data points and more than 2,000 football metrics to generate tactical reports, visualizations, video clips, and 3D match recreations for coaches and analysts.
AI-powered match preparation for every team
FIFA AI Pro functions as a Knowledge Super Agent, orchestrating multiple AI agents to search, organize, and interpret tournament data in minutes.
The platform enables teams to perform natural-language queries, contextual analysis, on-the-fly calculations, and football-specific reasoning using FIFA’s proprietary Football Language, which supports synonyms, multilingual searches, and hierarchical football concepts.
Rather than returning simple statistics, FIFA AI Pro delivers contextual insights through detailed reports, graphical widgets, video highlights, and immersive 3D recreations of match situations.
Leveling the playing field
According to Lenovo and FIFA, the platform gives all participating nations access to the kind of advanced analytics that was previously available only to wealthier football programs.
The expanded 48-team FIFA World Cup 2026 produced several notable results from emerging football nations, including Cabo Verde remaining unbeaten in regular time before an extra-time defeat to Argentina in the Round of 32, Curaçao earning a draw against Ecuador, DR Congo drawing with both Colombia and Portugal, Ghana holding England to a draw, and Paraguay eliminating four-time world champions Germany.
While acknowledging that multiple factors contributed to these performances, FIFA said access to FIFA AI Pro enabled every team to prepare using the same AI-driven analytical resources.
Focus shifts from data gathering to decision-making
FIFA Chief of Global Football Development Arsène Wenger said the platform changes how teams prepare for matches by reducing the time spent collecting and organizing data.
“The success of FIFA AI Pro at the FIFA World Cup 2026 has marked the beginning of a new era in match analysis and preparation. By automating the search, organization and interpretation of vast amounts of match data and video content, the experts can now spend less time searching for information or manually cutting footage and more time focusing on what truly matters: performance insights, tactical decision-making and helping teams gain a competitive edge,” Wenger said.
Lenovo expands AI in football
Ken Wong, Executive Vice President and President of Lenovo’s Solutions & Services Group, said FIFA AI Pro reflects the company’s goal of making advanced AI tools more accessible.
“At Lenovo, we are committed to our vision of Smarter AI for All and FIFA AI Pro is the embodiment of that,” Wong said. “We are providing the same cutting-edge resources and analytical tools to all the teams who have competed at the FIFA World Cup. This has helped level the playing field at this unique tournament.”
