Football Performance Analyst

As the organiser of some of the biggest and most iconic sport events in the world, we lead the way in the sport and event industry.

Join the team as a freelancer and support us on our mission.

THE POSITION

These are your key tasks:

• Deliver advanced Football Performance Insights across FIFA Tournaments (Youth and Senior World Cups), using the combined power of video and data to analyse tactical and technical aspects of the game.
• Support with the analytical direction of the team by introducing new ideas, methods, and perspectives that deepen FIFA’s understanding of football.
• Support the development of Performance Insights resources (reports, dashboards, frameworks, video-led outputs) to support Global Football Development.
• Provide high-impact insights to stakeholders including Confederations, Member Associations, coaches, and the Technical Study Group.
• Support on analytical standards and methodologies, ensuring consistency in how video and data are integrated into outputs.
• Contribute expertise to projects, ensuring analytical rigour and alignment with strategic priorities, while collaborating closely with the project manager on delivery.
• Monitor outputs to uphold accuracy, clarity, and football relevance.
• Foster effective communication and knowledge exchange across the team and with external partners.

YOUR PROFILE

We work hard at FIFA.
We are dedicated, ambitious and innovative.

And we respect our values. Always.

For all roles, we seek talented people with an entrepreneurial spirit and a global mindset.

The specific competencies we require for this position are:

• Undergraduate degree in Performance Analysis or equivalent. 
• Master's degree in Performance Analysis or equivalent is desirable.
• Minimum of five years’ experience in sports performance analysis, with a proven track record of delivering tactical, technical, and statistical insights.
• Demonstrated expertise in integrating video and data to produce high-quality performance insights.
• Experience engaging and delivering insights to diverse groups of practitioners, including coaches, analysts, and technical staff.
• Exposure to working collaboratively with practitioners across other football-related disciplines (e.g. coaching, fitness, medical, talent development).
• Experience providing guidance or mentoring to other analysts is desirable.
• High proficiency in video analysis platforms (e.g. Hudl, Sportscode or equivalent), with the ability to translate raw footage into meaningful insights.
• Strong experience working with event and tracking datasets, integrating them with video to deliver evidence-based performance analysis.
• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office and presentation tools (e.g. PowerPoint, Keynote), with the ability to produce clear, engaging, and impactful outputs for diverse audiences.
• Familiarity with data visualisation tools or coding languages (e.g. Tableau, Python, R) is desirable.
• Deep, world-class understanding of football strategies, tactics, and terminology, with the ability to contextualise and communicate insights effectively.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret and connect tactical and technical aspects of the game through integrated video and data analysis.
• High proficiency in video analysis tools and workflows, with the ability to translate raw footage into clear, actionable insights.
• Experience working with performance, event data and tracking data to build evidence-based narratives and frameworks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of engaging and influencing diverse stakeholders including coaches, analysts, confederations, and internal teams.
• Strong personal presence, setting high standards for analytical quality and guiding colleagues in their work.
• Proactive and self-motivated, with the confidence to take initiative and drive new ideas.
• Flexible and adaptable, able to perform under pressure in dynamic tournament environments.
• Collaborative mindset, fostering knowledge exchange, problem-solving, and collective growth within the team.
• Fluency in oral and written English and Spanish is essential.
• Fluency in any other language would be an advantage.
• Willingness to travel.
• Understanding of requirement to work unsociable hours.

About FIFA

We are FIFA, the global governing body for football.

Our vision is to make football truly global, diverse and inclusive, for the benefit of the entire world. The last FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 2022 attracted more than 5 billion viewers and the last FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 was the greatest-ever FIFA Women's World Cup that inspired millions of girls and women around the globe. The opportunities for growth are exciting.

We are a modern organisation with over 800 passionate employees who are Living Football every day. Our headquarters are based in Zurich, Switzerland, and we have offices in Miami, Paris and Rabat, plus eleven regional offices from New Zealand to India, South Africa, Panama and Paraguay.