The Science of Football: Inside the 2026 World Cup

足球科学：揭秘2026年世界杯

New Scientist Podcasts

2026-07-02

47 分钟
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Episode 381 Advances in sports science, data analysis and AI are having a huge impact on the way football is played. With England rated highly in this year’s World Cup, and teams such as Paraguay causing upsets - how will science help give teams an edge? In the past there was very little data available to help assess player performance - and diet and training were much more rudimentary. But now we can analyse information in an incredibly sophisticated way, which is changing what players can achieve on the pitch. In this special World Cup episode recorded at the Royal Society in London, we explore the emerging role of data and AI in football, the neuroscience of penalty shootouts, the impact of extreme heat on player performance, differences between the men’s and women’s game - and much more. Rowan Hooper is joined by a panel of expert guests, including: Dr Charlotte Cowie, Chief Medical Officer of the British Olympic Association Dr Ian Graham, Founder of sports advisory business Ludonautics Holly Bridge, Professor of Neuroscience at University of Oxford To read more about these stories, visit https://www.newscientist.com/ Image credit: Ank Kumar, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • How can advances in medicine and sports science, data analysis and AI give football teams an edge?

  • In short, can science win the World Cup?

  • That's what we're getting into on today's special episode of The World, the Universe

  • and Us from New Scientist, recorded live at the Royal Society in London.

  • I'm Rowan Hooper, I'm a journalist at New Scientist

  • and we've got some fantastic guests on today's show and I'm going to introduce them now.

  • Dr Charlotte Cowie is Chief Medical Officer at the British Olympic Association

  • and from 2016 to 2026 she was Chief Medical Officer for the British Football Association.

  • Professor Holly Bridge.

  • Holly is Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford

  • and is part of the Football on the Brain team exploring the connections between neuroscience and football.

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