What you should know
The Need
Player IQ Tech addresses the urgent need to facilitate an effective understanding of emerging technology and its application to the working environment of players including the potential impact on their personal and commercial interests.
The Purpose
Player IQ Tech provides player unions with a consistent framework to enhance their knowledge and expertise, engage with fellow unions and industry experts, and ultimately manage player-centric technology and innovation in the football industry.
The Excellence Cluster
Player IQ Tech integrates and collaborates with player unions to facilitate knowledge sharing and the creation of collective assets to address future challenges and opportunities in the workplace driven by innovation and technology.
Player Data: Managing Technology and Innovation
The Charter of Player Data Rights provides a response to the opportunities and challenges caused by new technologies, and is guided by leading legislation on data protection and privacy rights.
Workplace priorities
Medical, Performance & Employment
Evaluating the multitude of risks that persist relating to the potential dual-uses of collected player data in the employment context.
Commercial & Fan Engagement
Developing protective standards and best practices for the collection and use of player IP, and facilitating value creation for players globally through a modern consent-based framework for distribution.
Player Organising & Collective Bargaining
Operating to monitor technological developments, identify opportunities and evaluate risks for players with the objective of helping to shape future organising and bargaining strategies.
Player data rights: Why unions have an integral role to play
Nine FIFPRO member unions from four continents participated in the first FIFPRO Player IQ Tech Experience Tour in Tel-Aviv, Israel, giving them the chance to enhance their existing knowledge in the field of technology and innovation.
Focus Areas
Capacity Building
Provide quarterly technology and innovation resources and updates for player unions such as newsletters, webinars with a specific focus on player-centric interests.
Foresight
Monitor technology and innovation developments that impact players and their workplace and anticipate relevant trends in or for the industry.
Industry Engagement
Provide ongoing opportunities to engage with the technology & innovation ecosystem to identify common interests and position player union priorities on workplace issues in the football sector.
Tech Integration
Facilitate player union evaluation and testing of emerging technology solutions which hold significant importance and potential benefit for players.
All workers have the right to privacy – and players need a plan to protect it
Aída Ponce Del Castillo highlights why football needs to address industry developments driven by new technology and advances in data-capture that enable the rapid and large collection of sensitive player data in the working environment.
“Professional footballers have the same data rights as everyone else”
— by Director Global Policy & Strategic Relations Men's Football Alexander Bielefeld
Why data protection authorities are now looking at football
The first FIFPRO Player IQ Tech Experience Tour took place in Tel-Aviv, Israel which highlighted how player data is currently being collected and shared. The event illustrated the need for unions to implement frameworks in order to manage and control the use of player data in the employment context.