Opta Sports is a sports data company with headquarters in London

London

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 and other offices in Leeds, Munich, Bassano del Grappa, Milan, Paris and Madrid.

Formed in 1996 from a merger between Opta Sportsdata and SportingStatz, Opta analyses, stores and distributes live sports data on a wide variety of sports across the world.

Opta data is used in the betting industry, the print and online media, sponsorship, broadcasting and professional performance analysis. Clients include Sky Sports

Sky Sports

Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK and Ireland's main satellite pay-TV company, British Sky Broadcasting. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland...

, ESPN

ESPN

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, Chelsea F.C.

Chelsea F.C.

Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...

, Manchester City F.C.

Manchester City F.C.

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, William Hill

William Hill

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, Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer

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, The Guardian

The Guardian

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 and Castrol

Castrol

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Opta's management team includes Aidan Cooney (CEO), David Johnson (CFO) and Florian Diederichsen (COO)

Opta runs a Twitter

Twitter

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feed which pushes out sports stats trivia.

External links

• Opta Sports
• Optajoe on Twitter