Menlo Park, California and Bodø, Norway 11, December, 2024 – Kitman Labs, the global enterprise SaaS platform providing the only single, centralised operating system for performance intelligence in Sports, today announced a new partnership with Eliteserien Football club, FK Bodø/Glimt.
FK Bodø/Glimt, the four-time Norwegian champions and Europa League side, will utilise the Performance Medicine and Performance Optimisation Solutions in iP: Intelligence Platform. This will allow the club to combine medical and performance data in a single, integrated platform designed to unlock player health, wellness and performance outcomes across the Men’s and Women’s First Teams. The platform will also be implemented across FK Bodø/Glimt’s highly successful youth teams (u12-u19s) and the Women’s B Team.
The Intelligence Platform will unify medical and performance data in a singular operating system, providing staff and practitioners across the organisation with a real-time, 360° view of all players from a health, wellness and readiness perspective. The deployment of the platform will not only ensure the correct and timely collection of data, but will generate the advanced analytics and actionable intelligence necessary to power evidence-based decision-making across the critical areas of player care and performance. By consolidating all data and analytics in a centralised platform, the Club now has a shared, single source of truth to enable cross departmental collaboration and the reporting and visualisation tools to quickly and effectively communicate findings to all relevant stakeholders.
“Data has a key role to play in ensuring we continue to be successful on and off the pitch; however, data is only as valuable as the insights it can generate. The ability to truly capitalise on our data cannot be realised if each team and each department is working in different systems and in their own silos. The Intelligence Platform will unify our data landscape, providing access and transparency to all relevant stakeholders and enable our practitioners to use this data to inform objective, day-to-day decision-making like return-to-play regimens as well as longer term strategic goals like overall injury reduction. In addition, the automation and streamlined workflows within the platform, will help drive immediate efficiencies across the club – reducing the amount of time staff spends collecting and analysing data and more time applying the learnings on the pitch.” said Einar Hauglid, Head of Medical, FK Bodø/Glimt.
“FK Bodø/Glimt is one of the continent’s most progressive and exciting football clubs, proven in their recent success both domestically and in elite European competitions such as the UEFA Champions League and Europa League. By utilising The Intelligence Platform, FK Bodø/Glimt’s leadership team and practitioners are now equipped with the technology to help advance their mission to unlock player performance and potential while ensuring player health, readiness and longevity. This is a club that is leading with innovation and we look forward to partnering with them to help bring that goal to fruition,” said Stephen Smith, CEO and Founder, Kitman Labs.
Kitman Labs has an established track record of working with top teams and leagues across a variety of sports, including soccer, basketball, rugby, and American football. The company’s technology is in use by some of the world’s most elite soccer organisations, including Bayer Leverkusen, Ipswich Town F.C., Fulham F.C., Chelsea F.C. and Liverpool F.C. Kitman Labs recently announced the launch and deployment of The Football Intelligence Platform across all Premier League Academies.
iP: Intelligence Platform represents the industry’s largest dataset of talent, performance, and medical data for all stages of the athlete lifecycle.
About Kitman Labs:
Kitman Labs is the world’s leading sports science and performance intelligence company. Kitman Labs powers iP: Intelligence Platform, the advanced operating system used by the largest and most innovative leagues, teams and regulatory bodies in elite Sport and Defense. Our software solutions – Performance Medicine, Performance Optimisation, Coaching & Development and League Operations – have been designed to optimise human performance; enhance overall health, wellness and longevity; reduce injury risk; and drive operational efficiencies and value. Kitman Labs is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Dublin.
About FK Bodø/Glimt:
Bodø/Glimt was founded on the 16th September 1916. The Club is located in Bodø, Norway, and is one of Norway’s most successful football clubs. Due to northern Norwegian clubs not being allowed to play in the top league until 1972, Bodø/Glimt played in the northern Norwegian league until 1976, when they managed to get promoted for the first time. Bodø/Glimt has been the northern Norwegian champions eight times, won the domestic cup two times, and has won the Norwegian top league four times – the latest in 2024. Bodø/Glimt has competed in the UEFA Europa Conference League and Europa League on numerous occasions and is qualified for the UEFA Champions League playoff for the 2025/2026 campaign.
Media Contacts:
FK Bodø/Glimt
Simen Pedersen
simen@glimt.no
Kitman Labs
The PHA Group
kitmanlabs@thephagroup.com
