Atos to deliver critical IT services to UEFA Euro 2024
Aleksander Čeferin, UEFA president, and Nourdine Bihmane, deputy CEO Atos Group and CEO Tech Foundations, meeting in Nyon, Switzerland (Photo: Kristian Skeie, UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images)
As the Official Information Technology Partner of UEFA National Team Football until 2030, Atos will deliver key on-site and remote IT services for the UEFA Euro 2024 tournament, taking place from 14 June to 14 July 2024 in Germany.
To provide the best experience for all stakeholders, from the European football family to fans or media, Atos will be responsible for managing core IT planning and operations systems. This includes event management systems such as accreditation, access control solution, competitions solutions, venue parking, transportation, catering, guest management and cross venue IT management. It is also responsible for diffusion systems such as the football service platform, the mobile app and the website, including some embedded gaming functionalities such as match predictor and quizzes.
Atos will also offer additional support and operation services with printing, radio communication and service desk services.
Through the football service platform, Atos will store and distribute past and current UEFA football data to external (broadcasters, media, national associations, etc) and internal stakeholders (website, apps). The data includes fixtures, results, line-ups, live match events, standings, statistics, players status and ranking.
Atos will also provide on-site and remote support from different locations, starting with ICT venue managers, venue application co-ordinators and service desk operators present in the 10 tournament stadiums to ensure the efficiency and the reliability of its systems. A second group will be present at the International Broadcast Center located in Leipzig, which will host the IT Command Center of UEFA. Technical teams will also be mobilised from Nyon (Switzerland), Madrid, Barcelona (Spain) and other locations to provide remote assistance to any on-site posting and ensure the business continuity of the services delivered to UEFA.
“Atos is excited to work alongside UEFA to provide a seamless experience to all the people attending UEFA Euro 2024, the football fans, media and all the stakeholders involved. Our whole core expertise will serve this competition to successfully onboard all football fans worldwide,” said Patrick Adiba, CEO, Atos Major Events.
“We look forward to making UEFA Euro 2024 an extraordinary digital experience for all our football fans and the European football family. Benefitting from the extensive expertise acquired by Atos as an IT partner on major sporting events, we are delighted to be working together to deliver the most connected Euro ever,” added UEFA Events CEO Martin Kallen.
Since the announcement of this partnership at the end of 2022, Atos has helped UEFA manage and improve its systems and applications and supported major tournaments such as the UEFA Nations League Finals held in Rotterdam in June 2023.