ABOUT

Smarterscout is a fast, easy-to-use platform for evaluating the performance of football players around the world. It uses algorithms developed to assess players' contributions to winning, their playing style, and their skill levels. Plus, smarterscout has the ultimate tool for football transfers: adjustment factors to predict how a player in one league might succeed in another. Data-driven scouting isn't just for big clubs any more – now anyone can do it!

The smarterscout platform is part of a suite of tools for football analysis from Vantage FC. If you are interested in coaching profiles, tactical analysis, or match-by-match stats on expected goals and more, please contact us via the link below. 

Currently smarterscout covers 55 leagues around the world, including six second-tier leagues for Premium and Pro users, and 15 first-tier leagues for Pro users, who can also access the third and fourth tiers in England and the second tiers in Brazil and Mexico.

Lite users have access to the following 7 leagues:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG1England Premier League
🇫🇷 FRA1   France Ligue 1
🇩🇪 GER1  Germany Bundesliga
🇮🇹 ITA1    Italy Serie A
🇪🇸 SPA1  Spain La Liga
🏆 UCL    UEFA Champions League
🏆 UEL    UEFA Europa League

Premium users have access to the all leagues in the Lite plan plus 29 more:

🇦🇷 ARG1 Argentina Superliga
🇦🇺 AUS1 Australia A-League
🇦🇹 AUT1 Austria Bundesliga
🇧🇪 BEL1 Belgium First Division A
🇧🇷 BRA1 Brazil Serie A
🇨🇦 CAN1 Canada Premier League
🇨🇳 CHN1 China Super League
🇨🇾 CYP1 Cyprus First Division
🇩🇰 DEN1 Denmark Superliga
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG2 England Championship
🇫🇷 FRA2 France Ligue 2
🇩🇪 GER2 Germany 2. Bundesliga
🇬🇷 GRE1 Greece Super League
🇮🇳 IND1 India Super League
🇮🇹 ITA2 Italy Serie B
🇯🇵 JAP1 Japan J1 League
🇰🇷 KOR1 Korea K-League 1
🇲🇽 MEX1 Mexico Liga MX
🇳🇱 NED1 Netherlands Eredivisie
🇳🇴 NOR1 Norway Eliteserien
🇵🇹 POR1 Portugal Primeira Liga
🇷🇺 RUS1 Russia Premier League*
🇪🇸 SPA2 Spain La Liga 2
🇸🇪 SWE1 Sweden Allsvenskan
🇨🇭 SWI1 Switzerland Super League
🇹🇷 TUR1 Turkey Super Lig**
🇺🇦 UKR1 Ukraine Premier League
🇺🇸 USA1 United States Major League Soccer
🇺🇸 USA2 United States USL Championship

Pro users have access to the all leagues in the Pro plan plus 19 more:

🇧🇴 BOL1 Bolivia LFP Boliviano
🇧🇷 BRA2 Brazil Serie B
🇨🇱 CHI1 Chile Primera
🇨🇴 COL1 Colombia Primera A
🇨🇷 COR1 Costa Rica Liga FPD
🇭🇷 CRO1 Croatia Prva Liga
🇨🇿 CZE1 Czech Republic 1. Fotbolova Liga
🇪🇨 ECU1 Ecuador LigaPro Serie A
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG3 England League One
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG4 England League Two
🇲🇽 MEX2 Mexico Liga de Expansion
🇵🇾 PAR1 Paraguay Primera
🇵🇪 PER1 Peru Primera
🇵🇱 POL1 Poland Ekstraklasa
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SCO1 Scotland Premiership
🇷🇸 SER1 Serbia SuperLiga**
🇸🇮 SLN1 Slovenia PrvaLiga**
🇺🇾 URU1 Uruguay Primera
🇻🇪 VEN1 Venezuela Liga Venezolana**

Data Scientist users get access to all the leagues we offer, including the six additional leagues below and as we release new leagues will be given first access (plan upgrade may be required). Please contact us if you are interested.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG5  England National League
🇩🇪 GER3  Germany 3. Liga
🇮🇪 IRE1  Ireland Premier Division
🇳🇴 NOR2  Norway OBOS-Ligaen
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SCO2  Scotland Championship
🇸🇪 SWE2  Sweden Superettan


All smarterscout users get access to these metrics:

  • minutes played at each position
  • attacking contribution based on two models of expected goals
  • defending contribution based on two models of expected goals
  • ball retention
  • eight aspects of playing style
  • skills in aerial and ground duels
  • shooting and saving skill
  • shot quality and scoring metrics
  • statistics on involvement in moves leading to shots and goals
  • fantasy league metrics including average minutes played, simulated scoring, and team goals conceded – all home and away

Users can search our database with these metrics or by using a specific player as a model. It's also easy to compare players side-by-side with our visuals. All users can use our unique smartermaps to see where players touch the ball and the actions they attempt. Premium and Pro users get access to our shot maps as well.

On player profiles and search results pages, Premium and Pro users can see badges for high performers, breakout seasons, and young prospects flagged by our proprietary algorithms calibrated against a decade of player debuts in Europe's top leagues. Pro users can filter their searches with these badges, as well as using our AI-based smartersearch tool and seeing all the metrics for an entire squad on one screen. Pro users also have access to our exclusive xGAR (expected goals above replacement) metrics.

smarterscout is free for Lite members, who get five searches and player profiles every day at no charge.

* Please note that RUS1 is not available as a benchmark league until further notice. Coverage of RUS1 is included with all other benchmark leagues for Premium, Pro, and Data Scientist users.

** Coverage of RUS1, SER1, SLN1, TUR1, and VEN1 has not yet been offered by our raw data provider for the 2023/2023-24 seasons. Data from previous seasons continue to be available on the platform.