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Norway Football Federation selects Kitman Labs to unify national Player Pathway across 18 districts and all youth national teams. NFF will deploy the Operations & Pathway Management within Kitman Labs' iP: Intelligence Platform, connecting 1,900 club nominations, 18 districts and every Boys' and Girls' youth national team in one development environment * June 11, 2026 * 4:00 am Dublin, Ireland and Oslo, Norway, June 11, 2026 - The Norway Football Federation (Norges Fotballforbund, NFF) and Kitman Labs, the global leader in performance intelligence, today announced a partnership to unify Norway's national player development pathway on a single platform. The NFF will deploy the Operations & Pathway Management Solution within Kitman Labs' iP: Intelligence Platform, connecting 1,900 club nominations, 18 districts and every Boys' and Girls' youth national team in one shared development environment. The deployment will support Landslagsskolen, the NFF's national player development model that runs from age 12 through to senior international level. Across the pathway, the Operations & Pathway Management Solution in iP will give the federation a single environment for player nominations, training camp management, pre-camp data collection, post-camp coach evaluations and longitudinal tracking, replacing the multiple systems and manual workflows that have historically sat between the federation, its districts and its clubs. A Solution built for federations and leagues Within iP: Intelligence Platform, the Operations & Pathway Management Solution unifies Kitman Labs' League Operations and Coaching & Development capabilities into a single environment built for federations and leagues to manage both the running of the game and the development of players in one place. Competition management software has historically been built to administer fixtures, registrations and discipline. Operations & Pathway Management adds the structured player development workflows that federations need to track players, log evaluations, share coaching standards across districts and clubs, and maintain a longitudinal view of every athlete in the pathway. The Solution sits within iP: Intelligence Platform and is configurable to the structure, governance model and football philosophy of each federation or league deploying it. For the NFF, it provides the infrastructure to implement Landslagsskolen consistently across the country while accommodating district-specific adaptations. Implementing Landslagsskolen at scale On the new platform, clubs across Norway will nominate players directly into the system, generating initial player profiles without manual handling between organisations. Districts will manage their own players and activities. National team coaches will manage Norway's Boys (U15-U21) and Girls (U15-U23) youth squads. Granular permissions ensure each stakeholder works with the data appropriate to their role, while a single player record travels with each athlete as they progress through the pathway. Pre-camp information from clubs, including Individual Learning Objectives, training schedules and player contact information, will be collected through the same system. Coaches will write detailed evaluations after camps, with flexible sharing options that allow information to flow back to a player's club at the appropriate level. Activities such as UEFA Development Tournaments will be managed in the same environment, with the federation able to define what information clubs share, which players are included and how reporting flows after the event. As part of the deployment, Kitman Labs is also developing the NFF Player Pathway, a configuration of the platform tailored to the federation's coaching syllabus and development framework. The configuration is designed to give the NFF a consistent national framework that accommodates district-specific adaptations, while centralising the data needed to measure pathway effectiveness over time. "Norway is one of the most exciting stories in global football right now. The national team is succeeding, the clubs are improving, and the country is producing some of the most influential players in the world," said Stephen Smith, Founder & CEO Kitman Labs. "That kind of trajectory is the result of deliberate decisions about how to develop and connect players from grassroots to the senior national team. This partnership is the infrastructure that supports that ambition, and a clear signal from the NFF's leadership that the country's future as a force in international football is something they intend to build, not leave to chance. Operations & Pathway Management is the Solution we have built for exactly this kind of work, and with this deployment that infrastructure will run across the entirety of Norwegian football." "The objective is to remove the friction in how we identify, evaluate and develop players across Norway's clubs, districts and national teams," said Thomas Bock Brantsaeter, Head of Talent ID at the Norwegian Football Association. "On Kitman Labs' platform, our feedback will travel with the player back to their club. Coaches across the country will work from a shared framework. And we will have one continuous record for every player in the pathway from U12 age group through to the senior national team. Kitman Labs gives us the infrastructure to achieve this at the scale we need." The Norway deployment adds to Kitman Labs' work at the league and federation level globally. The Premier League's Elite Player Performance Plan partnership runs across all 92 Premier League and EFL academies in England. In the United States, Kitman Labs powers connected pathway operations across MLS, MLS NEXT Pro and MLS NEXT. More broadly, the company supports more than 2,000 teams, leagues, federations and high performance organisations across 26 countries, including clients in the Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, the NFL, MLS, NWSL and WSL Football. About the Norway Football Federation The Norway Football Federation (Norges Fotballforbund) is the governing body for football in Norway and a member of UEFA and FIFA. The federation oversees Norway's senior and youth national teams across men's and women's football and supports the development of the game through 18 districts and more than 1,800 affiliated clubs. About Kitman Labs Kitman Labs is the global leader in performance intelligence. Its iP: Intelligence Platform unifies data, workflows, and decision-making across more than 2,000 teams, leagues, federations and high performance organizations in 26 countries, including the NFL, MLS, NWSL, Premier League, WSL Football, and national rugby unions and football federations. iP brings together Performance Medicine, Performance Optimization, Coaching & Development, League Operations, and Core Operations into a single environment, representing the industry's largest dataset of talent, performance, and medical intelligence across every stage of the athlete lifecycle. Kitman Labs is headquartered in Dublin and Silicon Valley. For more information, visit www.kitmanlabs.com. Media Contacts Kitman Labs The PHA Group Recent releases. United soccer league announces expanded partnership with performance intelligence company Kitman Labs. 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Kitman Labs and Google Cloud redefine sports analytics with My iP launch. Kitman Labs, the global leader in performance intelligence has announced the launch of My iP, a new reporting and visualization capability within its iP: Intelligence Platform. My iP integrates Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform's enterprise-grade analytics and business intelligence infrastructure directly into the new reporting and visualization suite. iP: Intelligence Platform itself is used by more than 2,000 elite sports organizations across 26 countries. My iP represents the most significant reporting and analytics advancement in Kitman Labs' history, transforming the Intelligence Platform from a system of record into a system of insight. The "My" in My iP reflects its defining principle: personalization. Every organization, department, and practitioner can now shape how data is accessed, visualized, and shared based on their specific needs, workflows, and objectives - drawing from the full breadth of data across every iP Solution, including Performance Optimization, Performance Medicine, Coaching & Development, and Core Operations. A Collaboration with Google Cloud Kitman Labs integrates Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform's enterprise-grade analytics and business intelligence capabilities within iP: Intelligence Platform, combining the scale, speed, and data governance of the Gemini Enterprise infrastructure with Kitman Labs' domain expertise in elite sport. The integration delivers: * Enterprise-grade performance - handling millions of data points across medical, performance, coaching, and operational datasets instantly and securely * A governed data layer - ensuring every metric, benchmark, and KPI remains accurate, consistent, and auditable * A fully integrated experience - no external tools, logins, or infrastructure required; all reporting lives within iP * Reporting for every level - from analyst to executive, from team-level metrics to league-wide intelligence * Continuous innovation - access to Google Cloud's evolving analytics and AI technology pipeline The collaboration also provides a foundation for the introduction of AI-powered capabilities within My iP. Kitman Labs is developing intelligent features that enhance the user experience - making it faster and easier for practitioners to build, customize, and interact with reports and visualizations, while also helping organizations surface patterns and identify emerging trends from complex, multi-dimensional datasets. These capabilities will be introduced progressively and built with the same data governance, security, and clinical responsibility that underpins the entire Intelligence Platform. A New Standard for Reporting and Visualization in Elite Sport My iP addresses the most-requested capability in the Intelligence Platform's history: the ability for organizations to define, build, and control how their data is reported, visualized, and shared across every department. It sets a new standard for what reporting and visualization should look like in high-performance environments - giving every user the power to tailor their experience to the questions that matter most to them and their organization. Users can now: * Build and customize dynamic dashboards with full control over chart types, axes, scales, color logic, and conditional formatting * Automate reporting workflows with scheduled, reusable reports delivered across teams, departments, or entire leagues * Filter and pivot across any variable - by player, session, competition, or time period - without rebuilding a report * Benchmark players, periods, or teams with configurable rolling comparisons and contextual analytics * Access live, interactive intelligence from any device - on the field, in the treatment room, or in the boardroom Purpose-Built for Every Role in a High-Performance Environment My iP was designed to serve every user within an elite sport organization: * Analysts access rich datasets and apply custom calculations to build tailored charts, tables, and dashboards with full flexibility * Sports Scientists and Performance Coaches work with pre-configured templates for load monitoring, readiness, and player comparison with custom filters and KPIs * Medical Staff access integrated injury, rehabilitation, and return-to-play dashboards with cross-module correlation to workload and training data * Coaches and Practitioners receive concise daily and weekly summaries to inform session planning and in-game decisions * Executives and Leadership receive automated strategic dashboards summarizing club, academy, and league health across every metric that matters "Every organization we work with operates differently - different structures, different philosophies, different definitions of what matters most. The technology should reflect that, not fight it," said Stephen Smith, Founder & CEO of Kitman Labs. "My iP was built on that principle. A head of performance, a medical director, and a CEO should each be able to access the full depth of their data and see it in the way that is most meaningful to them and their role. That's what personalization at this level looks like. Our collaboration with Google Cloud has allowed us to deliver it at a pace and scale that reflects the ambition of the organizations we serve - and it gives us a foundation to responsibly introduce AI-enhanced capabilities over time, always with the data governance and security our customers expect. This is what the next era of performance intelligence looks like." The Scope of My iP My iP introduces a broad range of reporting and visualization capabilities that span the full breadth of data within iP: Intelligence Platform - across every Solution, every data source, and every level of the organization. The following represent a sample of what My iP delivers: Personalized, Self-Service Analytics: The defining capability of My iP. Every user - from analyst to executive - can build, customize, and control their own dashboards, reports, and visualizations within iP. Cross-Solution data blending draws from performance, medical, coaching, talent, and operations data simultaneously, enabling each individual and department to define the metrics, views, and formats that matter most to them. Pre-configured dashboards and smart templates provide immediate value from day one, while custom KPIs, dynamic calculations, and full authoring tools give advanced users the flexibility to go deeper. Cross-Platform Intelligence: For the first time, organizations can report and visualize data from across the entirety of iP: Intelligence Platform in a single environment - spanning Performance Optimization, Performance Medicine, Coaching & Development, Core Operations, and League Operations. This removes the barriers between departments and data silos, allowing organizations to combine workload, medical, tactical, wellness, and operational data into unified views that reflect how high-performance environments actually operate. League and Federation Intelligence: Cross-organization dashboards, secure anonymized benchmarking, multi-season and multi-competition analytics, and hierarchical access controls that enable governing bodies to generate collective intelligence across entire competitions while preserving individual club data ownership. Performance and Workload Intelligence: Dynamic workload dashboards featuring real-time match-to-training comparisons, automated load segmentation by season phase, drill-level analytics, and conditional formatting across GPS, physical testing, and session data. Medical and Rehabilitation Intelligence: Unified injury, illness, and availability dashboards across squad, position, and individual levels. Real-time squad availability tracking, custom rehabilitation views linked to workload and movement data, and injury-mechanism overlays that reveal risk patterns. Talent Development and Benchmarking: Integrated physical-testing intelligence, growth and maturation tracking, and benchmarking dashboards that compare players to positional and elite norms. Trajectory analysis enables organizations to visualize how emerging talent compares to players who have successfully progressed through the pathway. These capabilities will continue to expand as My iP evolves, with new pre-configured dashboards, integrations, and intelligence layers introduced on an ongoing basis. A Vertically Integrated Alternative to Generic BI Tools My iP is purpose-built for the workflows, data models, and decision frameworks that define elite sport. Unlike general-purpose business intelligence platforms, My iP operates within the same system that manages medical records, performance data, coaching insights, talent development, and league operations - eliminating the need for external tools, manual data exports, or cross-platform integrations that introduce latency and risk. Kitman Labs works with more than 2,000 elite teams and organizations across 26 countries, including the NFL, MLS, NWSL, Premier League, WSL Football, and national rugby unions and football federations. iP: Intelligence Platform unifies medical, performance, coaching, talent development, and operations data into a single operating system, representing the industry's largest dataset of talent, performance, and medical data across all stages of the athlete lifecycle. AI Kitman Labs sportsbiz