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This review delivers two goals: a concise practitioner overview of machine learning analysis and a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis for implementing machine learning techniques in professional clubs. It clarifies differences between artificial intelligence and machine learning, and between machine learning and statistical analysis, then summarizes supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning approaches. The SWOT example highlights actions for medical and sport science staff across four dimensions. Machine learning supports injury risk assessment, physiological monitoring, physical fitness evaluation, training optimization, opponent-informed strategies, and talent identification.","Accepted author manuscript version reprinted, by permission, from International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance (IJSPP), 2024, [https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2024-0247](https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2024-0247). © Human Kinetics, Inc.  \n1 An educational review on machine learning: a SWOT analysis for implementing  \n2 machine learning techniques in football.  \n3  \n4 Marco Beato 1*, Mohamed Hisham Jaward2, George P. Nassis3,4, Pedro Figueiredo3,5, Filipe  \n5 Manuel Clemente6,7,8, Peter Krustrup4,9 6  \n7  \n8 Affiliations  \n9 1. School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, United Kingdom.  \n10 2. School of School of Technology, Business and Arts, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, 11 United Kingdom.  \n12 3. Physical Education Department, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United  \n13 Arab Emirates.  \n14 4. Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, Sport and Health  \n15 Sciences Cluster (SHSC), University of Southern Denmark, Denmark  \n16 5. Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health, Sciences and Human Development, 17 CIDESD, Vila Real, Portugal.  \n18 6. Escola Superior Desporto e Lazer, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Rua  \n19 Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun’Álvares, 4900-347 Viana do Castelo, 20 Portugal.  \n21 7. Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport, 80-336 Gdańsk, Poland.  \n22 8. Sport physical activity and health research innovation and technology center  \n23 (SPRINT), 4900-347 Viana do Castelo, Portugal.  \n24 9. Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS), University of Southern Denmark, 25 Odense, Denmark.  \n26  \n27  \n28 *Corresponding author  \n29 Marco Beato, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, United  \n30 Kingdom, [email: ](email: m.beato@uos.ac.uk)[m.beato@uos.ac.uk](email: m.beato@uos.ac.uk)  \n31  \n32 Short title/running head: A SWOT analysis on machine learning in football.  \n33  \n34  \n36 Abstract  \n37 Purpose: The abundance of data in football presents both opportunities and challenges for  \n38 decision-making. Consequently, this review has two primary objectives: first, to provide  \n39 practitioners with a concise overview of the characteristics of machine learning (ML) analysis;  \n40 and second, to conduct a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis  \n41 regarding the implementation of ML techniques in professional football clubs. This review  \n42 explains the difference between artificial intelligence and ML, and the difference between ML  \n43 and statistical analysis. Moreover, we summarize and explain the characteristics of ML  \n44 learning approaches such as supervised learning, unsupervised learning and reinforcement  \n45 learning. Finally, we present an example of SWOT analysis, which suggests some actions to  \n46 be considered in applying ML techniques by the medical and sport science staff working in  \n47 football. Specifically, four dimensions were presented namely the use of strengths to create  \n48 opportunities and make the most of them, the use of strengths to avoid threats, work on  \n49 weaknesses to take advantage of opportunities, and upgrade weaknesses to avoid threats.  \n50 Conclusion: ML analysis can be an invaluable ally for football clubs, sport science and medical  \n51 departments due to its ability to analyze vast amounts of data and extract meaningful insights.  \n52 Moreover, ML can enhance performance by assessing the risk of injury occurrence, 53 physiological parameters, physical fitness, and optimizing training, recommending strategies  \n54 based on opponent analysis, and identifying talent and assessing player suitability.  \n55  \n56 Key Points: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, decision-making, performance  \n57 prediction, injury risk assessment, Soccer 58  \n59  \n60  \n61  \n62  \n63  \n64  \n65  \n66  \n67 INTRODUCTION  \n68 The decision-making 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