Industry Sports media Website www.optasports.com Headquarters London, United Kingdom Motto We live sport. Parent organization Perform Group | Products Sports analysis CEO Aidan Cooney (2002–) Founded 2001 Number of employees 400 | |
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Founders Aidan Cooney, Toby Russell Profiles | ||
Opta Sports is a sports data company with headquarters in London and other offices in Leeds, Munich, Bassano del Grappa, Milan, Paris, Madrid, Montevideo and Amsterdam.
Formed in 2001 as SportingStatz, Opta analyses, stores and distributes live sports data for over 60,000 fixtures across 30 sports in 70 countries.
Opta data is used in the betting industry, the print and online media, sponsorship, broadcasting and professional performance analysis. Clients include Sky Sports, ESPN, Arsenal F.C., Oulala Fantasy Football, The All Blacks, Manchester City F.C., William Hill, Major League Soccer, The Guardian, BBC Sport, and Castrol.
Opta runs several Twitter feeds in various languages that are segregated between sports. In 2013, Opta was acquired by Perform Group.