MORE than 150 delegates from countries including France, Denmark, Russia and the United States attended TGG’s first Big Data Conference at Emirates Old Trafford on Friday.

TGG has five partners for the Big Data Conference on November 22nd - Hudl, OptaPro, Sport Logiq, Playermaker and IMeasureU. All are leaders in data collection and analysis in elite football. Read more about them here.

LIVERPOOL’S Director of Research, Ian Graham, says the club have developed a metric called ‘goal probability added’ to assess players.

MANCHESTER CITY’S most senior data scientist, Lee Mooney, has left the club after six years to launch a start-up.

TGG's upcoming conference, 'Big Data: The Future of Football', has sold out with almost three weeks to go.

PAUL BALSOM, Leicester City’s highly-experienced Head of Performance Innovation, says a rare alchemy has taken the side to heady heights in the Premier League this season.

GARY ROWETT'S trusted lieutenant Joe Carnall will take on a new Technical Coach role at Millwall, which will see him relay statistical and video analysis from the bench on matchday.

WYSCOUT founder Matteo Campodonico explains how he came up with the idea for the scouting and analysis platform, how clubs use it and why he believes Big Data will transform the way it is used.

DATA SCIENCE is the growth area in football, yet also one of the least understood. At this special event, we will be finding out what the top Premier League and international teams are doing, from the experts who are doing it.

MLADEN SORMAZ has been appointed as Leicester City’s first Head of Football Analytics.

SEVILLA Sporting Director Monchi says “Big Data is the future of football” and that engineers and physicists are more in demand than scouts.

MANAGERS are supported by an unseen network of tactical analysts on matchday. Derby County's Joe Carnall gives us an insight into this often secret world.