ACM MMSports 2025

8^th International ACM Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports

Oct 27^th or 28^th, 2025 in Dublin, Ireland

at ACM Multimedia 2025

Oct 27 – Oct 31, 2025 in Dublin, Ireland

SoccerTrack Challenge 2025

Since 2022 MMSports hosts a competition. This years’s competition is

SoccerTrack Challenge 2025:
Tracking and Identifying Soccer Players in Fixed Viewpoint Video.

It is a competition designed to advance the tracking and identification of soccer players in fixed-viewpoint video footage. Participants will be provided with a dataset containing match footage annotated with bounding boxes and player IDs for training.

During the test phase and the final challenge phase, participants will be given unseen match footage, where they must perform player identification tracking and submit their results. The ranking will be determined based on the performance of their tracking models on this unseen data.

Prizes:

1st Place: 150,000 JPY
2nd Place: 60,000 JPY
3rd Place: 30,000 JPY

Additionally, travel support for one team member per team to attend ACM MM workshop will be provided.

Key differences to similar competitions are that while competitions such as SoccerNet Game State Reconstruction 2024/2025 and SoccerNet Tracking 2022/2023 focus on tracking from broadcast footage, the SoccerTrack Challenge 2025 utilizes fixed-viewpoint video. This introduces unique challenges, as players appear smaller, and the number of visible players is higher compared to broadcast footage. For this competition, we will use a dataset consisting of 10 soccer matches captured from a fixed viewpoint. This setup presents a new and more challenging task for participant teams, pushing the boundaries of player tracking and identification in non-broadcast soccer footage such as non-elite sports teams.

Organizer: Keisuke Fujii (Nagoya University), Li Yin (Nagoya University), Qingrui Hu (Nagoya University)
Sponsor: Red Dot Drone Japan, Hierarchical Bio-Navigation (A research project of The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)

SoccerTrack projects:

SoccerTrack (v1) [Scott et al. 2022, CVSports]
TeamTrack [Scott et al. 2024, CVSports]
SoccerTrack (v2: current data): TBD

Challenge Dates

Subject	Date
Competition starts	TBD
Competition ends	TBD
MMSport'25 Regular workshop papers submission	July 24, 2025
Extended paper submission deadline for winners	TBD
Camera ready version for winners	August 26, 2025

Note: The submission deadline is at 11:59 p.m. of the stated deadline date Anywhere on Earth.