What it is
Match Reports is the post-match record: the result and match details plus per-player performance — minutes, rating, goals and assists, cards, and GPS output — for a match on the calendar.
When you use it
After a match, to record the result and enter (or import) the players' stats, and later to review a match's per-player numbers and trends.
How it works
Pick the match. A selector lists your match sessions (most recent first). Selecting one loads its report or starts a new one.
Enter the match details. The report holds the score (for/against), competition, venue, home/away, opponent, formation, possession and notes.
Add the player stats. Per player you record minutes, rating, goals, assists, yellow/red cards and position — by hand or by importing a CSV/Excel file (e.g. a Wyscout or generic export), mapping its columns and matching rows to your players by name or number. GPS output (distance, sprint, top speed) is shown alongside from the session's GPS data. Ratings are color-coded by band.
Add the team stats. Wyscout's Team Stats export (an Excel file with one row per team) carries 53 metrics for both sides: possession, xG, PPDA, progressive passes, and recoveries and losses split by third of the pitch. Importing it fills two cards: the comparison against the opponent, and Team trend, which puts every match on one line so you can see how the team is developing across the season. No column mapping needed — the importer recognises the file by its headers and only asks you to confirm which of the two teams is yours. You don't need to fill in the match details first: the Excel itself carries the date, opponent, competition and score, so if that match doesn't exist yet it is created on import. And if it does exist, the file attaches to it on its own.
When the file carries several matchdays. Wyscout lets you request Team Stats for a date range, and that file looks just like a single-match one: same headers, more rows. The importer spots it and lists every match it carries instead of loading only one. Each row says whether it is already imported (it comes unticked), whether the match exists and will get its stats, or whether it has to be created — in which case the match is created with the date, opponent, competition and score the file itself carries. Untick whatever you don't want to touch and the rest goes in at once. No Wyscout: enter them by hand. The cards on this page fill from the team export, but you don't need one. In the importer, under the file field, “Enter the stats by hand” opens a grid with ten numbers per team: goals, shots, shots on target, corners, fouls, yellows, reds, offsides, penalties and possession. They are the ones you can count from the video or read off the match sheet. What you leave blank stays blank — an empty field is not a zero — and the opponent's possession fills itself in. They are stored in the same place as the export, so all three cards work the same, and a club that starts by hand and later buys Wyscout keeps everything it loaded.
Scouting the opponent. Wyscout lets you pull the Team Stats of any team in the competition, not just your own. Downloaded before you play them, that file is what to expect: their recent matchdays against other teams, with the same metrics. When you open the importer you pick what you came to do — load a match, scout an opponent or per-player stats — so the screen no longer has to work out whether the file is yours or someone else's, which is the one thing it cannot tell by looking (your club may be registered under a different name than Wyscout uses). No saved match is needed: an opponent's profile does not hang off any match. If you pick the wrong one, switch and the file you already chose is re-read on its own.
Expected vs actual. With scouting loaded, the report adds a card that puts what the opponent usually does next to what they did that day: the xG they had been creating against the xG they created and the goals they scored, and then their game metric by metric. The “±” is how much they vary from match to match — an opponent who always has 42% of the ball and one who swings between 30 and 55 share an average and have nothing in common. Highlighted rows are the ones that fell more than one deviation from their usual: that is where the match went off script. The profile only looks at matches before the one you are viewing, so you can download the opponent's full export after playing them without contaminating the prediction.
Key concepts
What a match report captures. Two layers: the match result (score, opponent, competition, venue, home/away, formation, possession, notes) and the per-player stats (minutes, rating, goals, assists, cards, position), with GPS metrics overlaid from the session.
Link to the calendar fixture. The picker lists every match the club has: the ones that already have a training session, and the ones that only exist on the calendar — a whole season's fixture list, for instance. Picking one fills in the date and, when the calendar carries them, the opponent, competition and home/away. A match that hasn't been played yet opens all the same: it shows the opponent and their crest, and it is where you look at the next opponent's scouting. GPS and per-player stats show up once the match has a session, which is what they are uploaded against.
Minutes and ratings. Minutes and ratings are entered or imported into the report. Ratings display on a color scale (roughly: green for high, neutral in the middle, red for low). These are stored on the report; they don't automatically feed the availability minutes or the player's season profile.
FAQ
How do I create a report for a match? Select the match session; a report is created against it (one per match session). Fill in the result and add the player stats.
Can I import stats instead of typing them? Yes — import a CSV/Excel export, map the columns, and match rows to players by name or number.
Where does the GPS in the report come from? From the session's GPS data, shown per player alongside the match stats (the full analysis lives in GPS Analysis).
Related
- Calendar — where the match session the report attaches to is scheduled.
- Lineup — the XI built for the same match.
- GPS Analysis — the full GPS breakdown behind the report's metrics.
- Player Profile — where a player's minutes and production surface.