Wyscout

Wyscout Spa

Type	SPA
Industry	Football Scouting, Match Analysis, Football Transfers
Founded	2004
Headquarters	Chiavari, Italy
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Matteo Campodonico (Founder, CEO)
Products	Wyscout Platform, Wyscout Forum
Number of employees	65
Website	www.wyscout.com

Wyscout is an Italian company that supports football scouting, match analysis and transfer dynamics. The company was founded in Chiavari, Liguria, Italy in 2004.

During the years 2004–2010, the company business was about on demand Football Matches Analysis, WebTVs, Advertising, DVB-T TV broadcasting, and the Capello Index project. A very early version of the Wyscout Platform was released on March 2008. The company changed several names during the years 2004–2010 (Sport Video Service, Wisport, Wi, Wigroup, Wysport, WY, Wygroup) the final and current name of the company is Wyscout since May 2010.

In 2010 the company published a new major release of its main product, Wyscout Platform 2 (website and iOS versions); this was the release that made the product the visibility in the football scouting business now. In 2011, Wyscout organized the first Wyscout Forum, a football related event, in Milan. In August 2012, former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said that Wyscout was "a good example of Italian IT company".

The Wyscout Platform is a database containing information about footballers. It was published online on March 2008, with the name "Wiscout", and that version was called 0.1. The platform consisted in a website where it was possible to order DVDs via Express Courier and to browse the footballer stats as height, weight, etc. In December 2008, the company started to provide standalone online html webpages with an embedded online video player to stream the football matches requested by their clients (Wiscout 0.2). Wiscout Platform 0.3 was released and made accessible from Google Chrome on February 2009, there was the possibility to watch streamed football matches within the online platform, there was a small quantity of games available at the beginning.

In Spring 2009, the company released Wiscout Platform 1.0 through customized Set-top boxes, it was possible to have access to the video database through an HDTV. In Spring 2010, the name of the product was changed in Wyscout Platform.

It was published online as website on March 5, 2010. The GUI of this version was very different from the previous one, displaying flags of all the nations in the home page, and the submenus displayed lists of all the championships, teams and players of the selected country.