Competitions

If you use these data cite the following paper: <br><br>- Pappalardo et al., (2019) <b>A public data set of spatio-temporal match events in soccer competitions</b>, Nature Scientific Data 6:236, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0247-7<br><br><br>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: <br><br><b>area</b>: 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);<br><b>format</b>: the format of the competition. All competitions for clubs have value "Domestic league". The competitions for national teams have value "International cup";<br>- <b>name</b>: the official name of the competition (e.g., Italian first division, Spanish first division, World Cup, etc.);<br>- <b>type</b>: 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);<br>- <b>wyId</b>: the unique identifier of the competition, assigned by Wyscout.