01689nas a2200193   4500008004100000245007700041210006900118300001100187490000600198520109400204100002101298700001801319700001901337700002301356700002101379700002001400700002101420856005401441       2019                        eng d00aA public data set of spatio-temporal match events in soccer competitions0 apublic data set of spatiotemporal match events in soccer competi  a1–150 v63 aSoccer analytics is attracting increasing interest in academia and industry, thanks to the availability of sensing technologies that provide high-fidelity data streams for every match. Unfortunately, these detailed data are owned by specialized companies and hence are rarely publicly available for scientific research. To fill this gap, this paper describes the largest open collection of soccer-logs ever released, containing all the spatio-temporal events (passes, shots, fouls, etc.) that occured during each match for an entire season of seven prominent soccer competitions. Each match event contains information about its position, time, outcome, player and characteristics. The nature of team sports like soccer, halfway between the abstraction of a game and the reality of complex social systems, combined with the unique size and composition of this dataset, provide an ideal ground for tackling a wide range of data science problems, including the measurement and evaluation of performance, both at individual and at collective level, and the determinants of success and failure.1 aPappalardo, Luca1 aCintia, Paolo1 aRossi, Alessio1 aMassucco, Emanuele1 aFerragina, Paolo1 aPedreschi, Dino1 aGiannotti, Fosca  uhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0247-7