Each year 16 of the worlds best academy teams including Chelsea FC, Manchester City, FC Dallas, AC Millan and Manchester United, are invited to the International Clarets Cup - a 3 day round robin tournament - held at Premier League club Burnley FC’s training ground.

Since the inception of the Clarets Cup in 2022, ai.io have been selected by Burnley FC to deliver a programme of talent identification and player performance analysis.

Year on year the event has grown in size, due to quality of the team, the football, and the advanced AI tech solutions that ai.io have provided for all the clubs to utilise. We also provided opportunities for fans or aspiring players to trial for Burnley FC at the event.

ai.io set up an aiLab Mobile Lab close to where all games took place. Throughout the tournament all teams benefited from Sports Science sessions in the Lab using the latest advancement in AI human performance analysis.

The excitement and amazement illustrated by the faces of the players, staff and parents illustrates how engaging a sports science session can become. This coupled with gamified leader boards, immediate results and insights provides all attendees an amazing experience.

ai.io also facilitated a trial area supported by Burnley FC scouts and coaches, where any fan or aspiring player was able to trial for Burnley FC there and then. We were able to identify a number of never before discovered players that were subsequently invited to Talent ID games at the Club.

The Clarets Cup is an amazing annual event run by Burnley FC, who by selecting ai.io to provide the latest in football related AI solutions at their event and during the season to all their teams, are illustrating that they embrace technology and are forward thinking in their approach.

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