Queens Park Rangers partners with Gemini Sports Analytics to improve data-driven decisions through dynamic AI solution
London, England/Raleigh, North Carolina - 13 May 2024 - Queens Park Rangers Football Club (QPR) and Gemini Sports, a sports-specific AI Cloud platform, have announced a three-year partnership that will provide the club with a comprehensive analytics solution which sets them on the cutting edge in European soccer. Leveraging state-of-the-art technologies alongside QPR’s existing data, Gemini facilitate rapid access to integrated data sources, empowering QPR to derive actionable insights in real-time and enhance decision-making, operational efficiency, and competitive performance.
Under the guidance of 27-year-old Christian Nourry, the youngest CEO in professional sports, the West London club has swiftly implemented Gemini’s cutting-edge platform, initiating a transformative journey aimed at modernizing QPR’s analytics infrastructure, fundamentally reshaping how sports data informs strategic decisions and on-field performance. Gemini contributed to QPR successfully securing their position in the EFL Championship for the 2024/25 season.
“When I arrived at QPR, I committed to building a next generation football project and that includes working with transformative technologies to improve on-pitch performance. Gemini has allowed our subject-matter experts in-house to do what they were already doing, but faster and easier,” said Nourry.
Led by founder Jake Schuster, a respected sports scientist with experience in professional sports, Gemini Sports specializes in squad management tactical insights for sports organizations. Schuster has worked for entities like the Dutch Olympic Federation, Florida State University, and the New Zealand All Blacks Olympic Rugby teams.
Gemini Founder and CEO Jake Schuster said, ”I couldn't imagine a better organization to be our first partner in English football. Christian Nourry and Ben Williams are more than early-adopters of innovations who give great feedback and are full of helpful ideas; they are authentically committed to building for the long-term. By taking QPR's data operations from a blank sheet of paper to using cutting edge AI tech essentially overnight and actually implementing it into their key player personnel and on-field decisions, we're active participants in the reinvention of a historically significant sporting organization.”
Gemini are partnered with professional and college sports teams across the NFL, NCAA, European Soccer, and more, giving them a competitive edge by harnessing the power of data, AI, and predictive analytics. Gemini have multiple sports team owners, and several top VCs among their investors, and has been recognized as a top startup to watch. Recent milestones include significant investment from Will Ventures and forging new partnerships, like the Indianapolis Colts and Infinite Athlete.
About Gemini Sports:
Gemini empowers teams to understand, add to, and profitably sustain their squads more successfully by delivering fast and easy workflows through an AI-co-pilot-style mobile application. By focusing on user experience, Gemini reduces the reliance of decision-making executives on data teams, allowing those engineers to focus on more complex and bespoke projects. Gemini’s partnerships with tech industry giants like Snowflake Data Cloud, Databricks, and Amazon Web Services, along with sports tech vendors such as StatsBomb, SkillCorner, and Impect, enable them to deliver automated and enriched data with a seamless setup made for each customer’s unique game model, ambitions, and workflow preferences. Scouting reports can be entered in the mobile application and easily customized, making subjective and objective data available on one page together, including AI summaries, automated alerts, and more. Data teams can flexibly access, iterate, and contribute their own models through Gemini’s API, making this a truly collaborative platform.
About Queens Park Rangers Football Club:
Queens Park Rangers Football Club (QPR) is a professional football (soccer) club originally founded in 1882 and based in West London, England. They currently compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English Football League.
