12.05.2026 20:40
The FIFA World Cup 2026 Technical Study Group (TSG) announced that it will share its analysis and visuals prepared throughout the tournament with the football world in real-time access.
The Technical Study Group (TSG) created for the 2026 FIFA World Cup will share information, analysis, and visuals in real-time during the tournament.
According to FIFA's statement, the TSG team, guided by FIFA Chief of Global Football Development Arsene Wenger, includes Otto Addo (Ghana), Tobin Heath (USA), Jürgen Klinsmann (Germany), Jayne Ludlow (Wales), Michael O'Neill (Northern Ireland), Gilberto Silva (Brazil), Jon Dahl Tomasson (Denmark), Paulo Wanchope (Costa Rica), Aron Winter (Netherlands), and Pablo Zabaleta (Argentina), for the 2026 FIFA World Cup hosted by the USA, Canada, and Mexico.
FANS CAN ACCESS REAL-TIME INFORMATION
The TSG, led by FIFA Senior Football Expert Pascal Zuberbühler and Football Performance Insights (FPI) Lead Tom Gardner, will be supported by a team of football analysts, data engineers, data scientists, and performance analysts working on-site in Miami and Dallas, and remotely in Manchester (UK).
The expert team will share "comprehensive and in-depth" information on all 104 matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. For the first time in World Cup history, fans will be able to receive real-time insights from the Technical Study Group.
The TSG aims to enhance the global understanding of the game by providing state-of-the-art analysis of all matches for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
During the tournament, FIFA will share the "most modern" metrics and performance data in World Cup history with viewers worldwide via TV channels and the internet, as well as with participating teams and players.
The statement said, "New and exciting insights will be offered to enrich the scope and analysis of every match in the tournament through unique in-match and post-match visuals, prepared as augmented reality and traditional graphics."
Commenting on the TSG, Wenger said, "The Technical Study Group helps identify trends in the game, prepare future generations for the development of football, and make the sport more exciting by highlighting the qualities players will need in the future."
Wenger added, "With unprecedented high-quality data, the TSG will be able to describe, analyze, and interpret on-field events in a way that engages both technical experts and football fans. We are not only collecting more data than before but also trying to strike the right balance between technical expertise and data. At the same time, we want to share our technical observations in real-time during the tournament."
The statement noted, "The TSG will analyze all 104 matches of this year's FIFA World Cup from a unique tactical position in the stadiums or from the dedicated performance room in Miami. In both cases, they will have live access to six video angles and thousands of data points during each match. Players receiving awards at the tournament will also be selected by TSG members."
The statement, which noted that the TSG's hub is the FIFA Training Centre, an innovative platform accessible to players and coaches around the world, added, "For the first time in FIFA World Cup history, fans will also be able to get real-time insights from the TSG through the FIFA Training Centre's social media accounts and YouTube channel."
TSG SPOKE TO AA
FIFA's TSG team also answered questions from an AA reporter during a Zoom meeting. In response to a question about whether there will be teams that stand out with tactical performance during the tournament, or whether there will be national teams using different tactics not typically seen in football during the World Cup, such as PSG's throw-in tactic in the Champions League, Brazilian TSG member Gilberto Silva said, "It's difficult to compare club teams with World Cup teams in terms of tactical performance."
He added, "Coaches of teams in the UEFA Champions League, for example, Luis Enrique at PSG, work with their players every day, shape them as desired, and have sufficient time for tactical work. But when it comes to national teams, coaches do not have long working periods with their players. Coaches of national teams do their best based on their players' abilities. The situation becomes even more complicated when national team coaches also deal with injuries in their squads."
''WINGERS ARE NOW MUCH MORE IMPORTANT''
Regarding how to technically evaluate the fact that some national teams, including the Turkish National Football Team, prefer to play without a classic striker, and what results the tournament might yield for national teams without a classic striker in their World Cup squad, Gilberto Silva emphasized that football worldwide has been undergoing a change in recent years.
Silva said, "What we have seen in recent years is that teams are no longer dependent on a main striker. Wingers are now much more important."
In response to a question about whether a report will be shared before the World Cup, analyzing players and teams technically and showing their technical and physical weaknesses and advantages, English TSG member Tom Gardner said, "Teams will have more surprising strategies, but they will not want to reveal them and will try to keep them secret. Therefore, the TSG will not publish a report in this context before the tournament."
Gardner added, "In the final weeks before the tournament, fans will closely follow how coaches shape their teams and the performances of their opponents and other teams."