Panini BEcomes Supplier Of The Official Serie A Tim And Serie B Tim Statistics

The Licensing Machine - September 2008

 
Italian National League "Lega Calcio" announced the signing of a five year agreement starting from the 2008/2009 season

As of now the official statistics of the Serie A TIM, Serie B TIM and TIM Cup are at the disposal of all fans and professionals on the official Lega Calcio website (www.lega-calcio.it).

The agreement reached between the Lega Calcio and the Panini Group will allow football fans to obtain the main statistics of every match immediately after the final whistle including official goal scorer ranking, information about the recordmen of the day and the players who made the most goals or ball recoveries.

The official data worked by Panini Digital - including match presentation reports on every Friday and match analysis available 30 minutes after every match - will be available for all interested media and for Lega Calcio football teams that will be able to distribute them in the stadia during their matches or at the press conferences in the Serie A TIM and Serie B TIM stadia.

On the official Lega Calcio website football fans can also follow the update of the match results including goal scorers and tables in real time after every score.

"Thanks to Panini we were eventually able to realize an important data collection and distribution tool, which so far hasn’t existed in Italy and which brings us on a level with the main sports organizations world-wide. These are only the first steps that the Lega Calcio will take together with the Panini Group and this cooperation in the next months will lead to great innovations regarding our multimedia communication", said Antonio Matarrese, president of Lega Calcio.

Aldo Hugo Sallustro, president of the Panini Group, declared: "Panini is very proud of this agreement with Lega Calcio as it confirms and underlines our role in the international football world also with regard to the innovative activities we have been developing in the last years. Naturally Panini will provide maximum support to the implementation of the new communication projects that Lega Calcio is going to develop in the next years."

Panini, world leader in the collectibles market, has extended its activity also on the statistics and multimedia market and has been specializing in football match data collection thanks to an exclusive voice recognition system under the brand "Panini Digital".

From today all the official statistics related to the Championships of Serie A TIM, Serie B TIM and TIM Cup will be available for the industry and the fans on the official website of the Lega Calcio (www.lega-calcio.it)