The German Football League has issued a statement with sharp criticism of the “massive technical problems” in the Video Assistant Referee system from service provider Hawk-Eye, calling the outages “unacceptable.” Use of the VAR system that was supposed to assist match officials on the field with game-changing decisions was either unavailable or temporarily unavailable at […]
New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton’s comments regarding the NFL’s sideline replay technology, or lack thereof, drew mild attention this week amid the news that the Oakland Raiders would become the first NFL team to call Las Vegas home. Payton touched on the idea of adding widely used video technology to determine if players […]
The 100-year installation of the Copa America, the Copa America Centenario, will feature a piece of technology that those playing in 1916 could only dream of. Hawk-eye’s famous goal-line technology will be making its debut this year in the tournament held in the United States starting on June 3rd. Goal-line technology made its major tournament […]
Hawk-Eye is probably best known for supplying the goal-line technology for the FIFA World Cup in 2014, but the sports technology company is responsible for much more across the wide spectrum of sports. Ranging from ball tracking to broadcasting graphics among more than 20 different sports, Hawk-Eye has their hands in about every sector of the […]
The use of goal-line technology in soccer has long been a contested subject. Perhaps the majority of fans have welcomed its growing application to create a fairer, less erroneous game. However, it has also been fiercely opposed. Similarly to how Roger Federer has been so famously hostile to Hawk-Eye’s introduction to tennis, ex- Manchester United […]
