Competitions

If you use these data cite the following paper:

- Pappalardo et al., (2019) A public data set of spatio-temporal match events in soccer competitions, Nature Scientific Data 6:236, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0247-7

This dataset describes seven major soccer competitions (Italian, Spanish, German, French, English first divisions, World cup 2018, European cup 2016). Each competition is a document consisting of the following fields:

area: it denotes the geographic area associated with the league as a sub-document, using the ISO 3166-1 specification (https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html);
format: the format of the competition. All competitions for clubs have value "Domestic league". The competitions for national teams have value "International cup";
- name: the official name of the competition (e.g., Italian first division, Spanish first division, World Cup, etc.);
- type: the typology of the competition. It is "club" for the competitions for clubs and "international" for the competitions for national teams (World Cup 2018, European Cup 2016);
- wyId: the unique identifier of the competition, assigned by Wyscout.