Catapult Signs New Multi-Year Deal with the Rugby Football Union,
Premiership Rugby, and Premiership Women’s Rugby
Boston, MA, Oct. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Catapult (ASX:
CAT), the global leader in sports technology solutions for
professional teams, today announced a new deal with the Rugby
Football Union, Premiership Rugby, and Premiership Women’s Rugby
that will bring Catapult’s innovative athlete monitoring technology
and video integration to rugby union in England. The strategic
partnership marks a significant milestone in advancing athlete
performance with the national England men’s and women’s rugby
teams, Premiership Rugby, and Premiership Women’s Rugby.
As the preferred provider of athlete monitoring technology,
Catapult will make available to the men’s and women’s national
teams, Premiership Rugby, and Premiership Women’s Rugby teams its
full performance analysis suite, including the Catapult Vector
System, offering a comprehensive understanding of both team and
individual performance. The integration of Catapult Vector with
MatchTracker gives coaches a detailed visualization of on-field
dynamics, allowing them to sort, filter, and rapidly access
insights enabling practitioners and coaching staff to identify
patterns and trends in player performance. Additionally, Focus
captures multi-angle video and data during games and practices,
enhancing decision-making and tactical adjustments. Together, these
tools will empower the Rugby Football Union, Premiership Rugby, and
Premiership Women’s Rugby practitioners and coaches to make
informed choices on strategy, athlete performance, and injury
management.
The agreement also includes the Catapult Vector Rugby Analytics
Suite, Elite Vests with integrated heart rate, and ClearSky Local
Positioning System (LPS) to further enhance player performance
tracking and analysis. The Catapult Vector Rugby Analytics Suite is
specifically designed for rugby, employing advanced algorithms to
monitor key actions such as scrums, kicks, lineout jumps, and
contact involvements. The Elite Vest for women athletes optimizes
sensor placement for improved heart rate signal quality, while the
Elite Vest for men athletes enhances fit and data accuracy with an
inlaid chest band that stabilizes sensors during intense movement.
ClearSky LPS will be installed in national team venues including
the Allianz Stadium and Honda England Rugby Performance Centre in
addition to a number of domestic training venues including for
teams such as Bristol Bears and Gloucester Rugby providing
low-latency, real-time data during training and matches.
“We are excited to begin this new partnership with three of the
world’s most respected rugby organizations, the Rugby Football
Union, Premiership Rugby, and Premiership Women’s Rugby,” said
Kieran Dannatt, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and
Development of Catapult. “By investing in Catapult’s technology,
the Rugby Football Union, Premiership Rugby, and Premiership
Women’s Rugby are building a sustainable model for the future of
rugby. This partnership ensures that the Rugby Football Union,
Premiership Rugby, and Premiership Women’s Rugby teams have
cutting-edge technology that enhances both team and individual
athlete performance and player care, further solidifying English
rugby’s position as a leader in rugby innovation.”
With Catapult, the Rugby Football Union, Premiership Rugby, and
Premiership Women’s Rugby will gain significant advantages in data
management and sharing across club, league, and game levels. Each
national and domestic team using Catapult will establish its own
performance thresholds and operational zones, enabling tailored
training strategies throughout the season. This data will
seamlessly synchronize with the league’s and domestic team’s
overall data architecture, enhancing information flow and improving
insights across all levels of rugby. Additionally, Rugby Football
Union, Premiership Rugby, and Premiership Women’s Rugby players
will benefit from consolidating their performance data directly to
Catapult OpenField Cloud. This integration will enable enhanced
performance analysis, strategic planning, and collaboration across
teams, leagues and the National Governing Body.
“It has been a long-time objective to align player tracking
technology across all areas of the professional game,” said Duncan
Locke, Head of Technical Performance at the Rugby Football Union.
“The partnership between the Rugby Football Union, Premiership
Rugby, Premiership Women’s Rugby and Catapult will provide players
and practitioners access to a range of best in class products to
optimize how players are managed and drive game-wide insights
through standardized data capture and integrated data and video
analysis. Utilizing Catapult ClearSky technology we can now monitor
performance with unprecedented precision. This not only elevates
individual and team performance understanding, but also supports
player management through consistently and efficiently capturing
and monitoring player workloads and movement patterns across all
club and international environments, aligning with the Rugby
Football Union’s commitment to player welfare and safety.”
”Premiership Rugby is excited to partner with Catapult Sports,
making available the latest player tracking technology to our
teams,” said Matt Cross, Head of Science and Medical Operations at
Premiership Rugby. “By providing practitioners with comprehensive
and individualized data using Catapult technology, we empower them
to make informed decisions to prioritize player performance and
safety. It has been a long-term ambition to align player-tracking
technology across the elite game in England, and this partnership
provides the opportunity to make this technology available to
clubs, allowing for seamless data sharing to support players
transitioning across different environments from both a performance
and welfare perspective.”
“As a player, having access to detailed performance insights
like this is a game-changer for us and ensures every player in
Premiership Women's Rugby can operate at the highest level," said
Marlie Packer, Co-Captain for the Saracens Women. “Catapult athlete
monitoring technology will allow us to track our progress, manage
our workload, and refine our skills in ways we couldn’t before as
we play in the best women's league in the world. It’s exciting to
know that we’re supported by tools designed to prioritize both our
performance and our long-term health. This partnership is helping
us elevate our game and align with the highest standards in
rugby.”
To learn more about Catapult’s solutions for Rugby, visit
https://www.catapult.com/sports/rugby.
About Catapult
Catapult exists to unleash the potential of every athlete and
team on earth. Operating at the intersection of sports science and
analytics, Catapult products are designed to optimize performance,
avoid injury, and improve return to play. Catapult works with more
than 4,200 elite teams in over 40 sports across more than 100
countries globally. To learn more about Catapult or to inquire
about accessing performance analytics for a team or athlete, visit
us at catapult.com. Follow us at @CatapultSports on social media
for daily updates.
About Rugby Football
Union
The RFU is the national
governing body for rugby union in England. The organisation
aims to enrich lives, introduce more people to rugby union and
develop the sport for future generations. The goal is to achieve
this by strengthening and uniting rugby union in England and
producing consistently winning England teams.
The RFU is a members’ organisation of professional and amateur
rugby clubs, referee societies and Constituent Bodies (geographic
or national unions of clubs) that reinvests all profits back into
the sport.
About Premiership
Rugby
Premiership Rugby is the
organisation that manages the top league in English club rugby –
Gallagher Premiership Rugby.
It acts for its shareholder clubs in all major commercial and
strategic negotiations with media and sponsorship partners of the
league, as well as with other rugby governing bodies.
About Premiership Women’s
Rugby
Premiership Women's Rugby has
been established to deliver a ten-year strategy for women’s rugby
in England. As part of that strategy a new, nine-team, Premiership
Women's Rugby league has been launched as a partnership with the
Rugby Football Union (RFU) and the clubs.
The ambition for Premiership Women's Rugby is built on a new
vision and mission to carry the organisation through the next
decade and create a generation of players and fans inspired by
world-class club competition.
In the first, historic, season Gloucester-Hartpury were crowned
champions, beating Bristol Bears 36-24 in an unforgettable Final at
Sandy Park.
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