The Short Answer

Wyscout is a video-first scouting platform. If your work is watching players, it fits. If your work is querying event data, it is more platform than you need, at an enterprise price. Dribble sells the data itself: more than 57 million event rows with XY coordinates across 32 competitions, delivered through an API, BigQuery, or downloads, at published prices from $9.99 a month.

What Is Wyscout Built For?

Wyscout built its name on video. A scout logs in, searches a player, and watches clips of every action, backed by a large video library and scouting workflows used by clubs and agencies. The data layer supports that viewing experience. Access is sold through sales contracts, typically to clubs, agencies, and media companies, and pricing is quoted rather than published.

That model works when the deliverable is a scout's judgement on a player. It works less well when the deliverable is a dataset: a model, a dashboard, a research paper, or an app. For those jobs, you do not need a viewing platform. You need rows you can query, join, and ship.

What Changes When You Buy the Data Instead?

Buying the data itself changes three things.

First, the unit of work changes. Instead of clicking through clips, you write queries. Dribble event data carries the Opta event stream: shots, passes, carries, pressures, and duels, each with pitch coordinates, across 32 competitions including the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1, the Champions League, and MLS.

Second, the tooling changes. The same underlying data is reachable three ways: a REST API for apps, BigQuery tables for analysis at scale, and CSV downloads for one-off work. A scout building a recruitment shortlist and a modeller training a shot model can work off the same source.

Third, the contract changes. Prices are published, licences are stated per tier, and you can start on a card today rather than through a procurement cycle.

Wyscout or Dribble: Which Fits Your Work?

Question Wyscout Dribble
Primary job Video scouting platform Football event data product
Main deliverable Clips, reports, player pages Event data with XY coordinates
Access Web platform on a sales contract API, BigQuery, and CSV downloads
Published pricing No, quoted by sales Yes, from $9.99 a month
Event rows Data supports the video product 57 million plus event rows, 32 competitions
Commercial licence By contract Included on API Elite and Flite, BigQuery Pro and Max
Best for Watching and rating players Querying, modelling, and building

The honest line between them: Dribble is post-match data, not a video platform. If you need to watch a prospect's every touch on film, that is a video product's job. If you need to measure what those touches were worth, that is a data product's job.

What Does Dribble Cost?

Published monthly prices, in US dollars:

  • Data Downloads: $9.99 a month for monthly current-season updates, plus the Legacy Archive at $49 one-time for 6 completed seasons.
  • API: Lite $19, Elite $49, Flite $149 a month, with 1,000 to 50,000 calls a day depending on tier.
  • BigQuery: Starter $49, Pro $149, Max $499 a month, from personal and academic use on Starter to full commercial licences on Pro and Max.

Coverage runs from 2020 to the present as standard, with 90,582 players, 8,054 teams, and 41,017 matches in the core tables. Every plan can be cancelled anytime, and there is a 24-hour refund guarantee.

Who Should Choose Which?

Choose the video platform if your staff's daily work is watching players and writing reports from film, and your club already runs its recruitment meetings inside it.

Choose the data product if your questions sound like these: which under-21 fullbacks progress the ball most per 90, how does this striker's shot map look against league average, can we feed event data into our own model or product. Those are queries, not viewing sessions, and they are priced like queries here: see plans and pricing.

For a deeper comparison of data routes, read our guide to Opta data alternatives.