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Arsenal, Manchester United and Manchester City extend their partnerships with Prozone

The 2011/12 season will see Prozone working with a record number of clubs in the English Premier League and Championship, as well as a growing list of teams from Leagues One and Two.

Arsenal, Manchester United and Manchester City extend their partnerships with Prozone

This season will see us offer tactical and technical analysis across all four domestic leagues, as well as supporting our English teams in European competitions.

Our role as the performance analysis service of choice for English football has been further cemented with 15 Premier League teams choosing Prozone. These teams include 2010/11 Champions and Champions League finalists Manchester United, FA Cup Winners Manchester City, seven teams who are playing in Europe as well as two of the teams newly promoted from the Championship.

Arsenal, Manchester United, Manchester City, Stoke, Fulham and Wigan have all signed contract renewals that will see them continue to receive full Prozone performance analysis services for the season ahead. Prozone share our clubs' ambitions to be at the forefront of technology, turning data into unique valuable insights generating and maintaining the highest levels of performance across all levels of the club.

Arsenal Manager, Arsène Wenger, an advocate of the integration of sports science into the coaching process and one of Prozone’s longest standing clients, had this to say about his club’s relationship with Prozone;

“The extension of our long standing relationship with Prozone will allow us to continue the great work that is being done around performance analytics at the club. Prozone’s support and insights play a key role in our coaching process, as well as aiding in the education of our young players from the academy right through to the first team. This consistency gives us a great platform from which to develop and expand the ways in which analysis is delivered to our football department as a whole.”

Manchester United Fitness Coach, Tony Strudwick also commented;

“Information is the fuel that drives the coaching process. Planning, decision making, monitoring and performance analysis all depend on the availability of the necessary data. Prozone provide us with an appropriate platform to present, assimilate and deliver performance data.”

Last year Prozone provided performance analysis to both the clubs automatically promoted from the Championship. Both of these clubs, QPR and Norwich, have gone on to extend their service agreements in order to help them prepare for the season ahead in the Premier League. The 2011/2012 season will see us working alongside 21 of the 24 clubs in the Championship, including League One promoted team Southampton who have upgraded their Prozone service to become one of 11 Championship teams using the full PROZONE3 performance analysis service.

The summer has also seen Barnsley and Peterborough become our newest Championship teams, while Brighton, Crystal Palace, Doncaster, Ipswich, Millwall and Reading have all renewed their existing agreements.

Prozone's Managing Director Barry McNeill, commented on the service offered to clubs at all levels of the English game;

“With the strength and flexibility of the services that Prozone offer, we continue to provide a range of comprehensive performance analysis services across all levels of the domestic game and strengthen our position as the performance analysis service of choice for English football.”

There continues to be a growing importance for enhanced performance analysis even for the most successful teams in professional sport. Working with some of the leading coaches in football is part of Prozone’s DNA as we continue to develop new products and enhanced services to further advance the use of performance analysis in football.