Signal AIx4Soccer: A Unified Platform Architecture for Football Club Management and Structured Athlete Development

Summary

A paper describes the architecture of AIx4Soccer, a proposed multi-tenant cloud SaaS platform intended to unify the fragmented digital tools used by football clubs, academies, and federations, which typically operate separate systems for video analysis, GPS and performance tracking, medical records, scouting, and administration. The authors note this fragmentation is most acute at grassroots clubs in developing markets such as Brazil, which they describe as paradoxically the world's largest exporter of professional players despite lacking integration resources available to elite European clubs. The proposed platform embeds a structured athlete-development methodology called the PDI Framework and includes a companion marketplace component, Tak Tik, that connects clubs with video analysts under a 75%/25% revenue split between analysts and the platform. The paper also discusses youth data-protection obligations under Brazil's LGPD and 2025 Digital ECA as well as the EU's GDPR, along with algorithmic-fairness risks in talent evaluation. The authors explicitly frame the work as a design and early-deployment paper rather than an empirical evaluation, making no efficacy claims.