Published On 5/6/2026
The 2026 World Cup has a unique specificity that is evident in several aspects, including holding the tournament in 3 countries and even the first official appearance of artificial intelligence technologies and directly influencing the course of the various matches for all teams without the technology being exclusive to one team.
This prominent emergence of artificial intelligence technologies during the year 2026 is due to FIFA’s cooperation with the Chinese company Lenovo to provide a customized and trained artificial intelligence platform to meet the needs of the technical equipment of the various teams during the tournament, according to the company’s statement.
Therefore, for the first time in the history of the World Cup tournaments, all participating teams reach the same level of technical analysis and digital data that can be translated into direct and live plans in all languages of the world to suit all forty-eight teams participating in the tournament.
The South China Morning Post reports that the Football AI Pro platform developed by Lenovo will be customized for each national team separately, and therefore it can be said that each national team will have its own artificial intelligence model.
But what exactly is the Football AI Pro platform? And what can you do?
An intelligent assistant for every team
The Euronews news report describes the Football AI Pro platform as one of FIFA’s biggest projects for the upcoming tournament, as the platform provides an intelligent assistant for all teams participating in the tournament.
The platform is closer to a cognitive assistant that works with generative artificial intelligence technology, capable of collecting data, monitoring and recording more than 2,000 different tactical indicators that are important to the teams participating in the tournament, according to the website’s report.
The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) aims to launch this assistant to enable all teams to have access to advanced analysis methods that previously relied on the financial and technical resources available to each team individually, but the new platform gives all participating teams equal access to the same analytical capabilities, whether before or after matches, according to what was stated in the official FIFA statement.
The platform relies directly on the football language model developed by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), as the platform will be able to analyze hundreds of millions of different data points related to football and present them to different coaches and teams clearly.
Experience different data analysis
The function of “Football AI Pro” can be simplified as a tool capable of directly applying various football analyzes and theories and visualizing their impact on players and the reaction of opposing teams with clarity and ease.
The platform’s ability to generate 3D images of players in different teams contributes to imagining the impact of different plans and tactics on and off the field, as coaches can imagine the reaction of competing teams if the main teams’ plans and players’ movements change.
The platform provides different and diverse access to all members of football teams, starting from coaches who can see their plans turning into reality thanks to 3D images before the start of the match, to players who can obtain customized data and analyzes that the platform provides for them, as well as data analysts and collectors affiliated with each team individually, as they can access the data very easily and very quickly.
The platform can present the data it analyzes in the form of images, texts, graphs, or even video clips specifically generated based on the data it provides.
