SoccerNet 2026 Challenges Results
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: The SoccerNet 2026 Challenges constitute the sixth annual edition of the SoccerNet open benchmarking effort, dedicated to advancing computer vision research in sports video understanding. This year's challenges span five vision-based tasks: (1) Ball Action Anticipation, predicting the timing and class of ball-related actions within a short future window from a preceding observation window; (2) Player-Centric Ball Action Spotting, temporally localizing and classifying ball-related actions while assigning each action to the acting player through team affiliation and jersey number; (3) Novel View Synthesis, rendering images from unobserved camera poses in multi-view football scenes; (4) Spiideo SoccerNet Synloc, localizing athletes in real-world pitch coordinates from a single calibrated static-camera image; and (5) Visual Question Answering, answering multiple-choice questions about football broadcasts across text, image, and video inputs. For each task, participants were provided with annotated data, a unified evaluation protocol, and a public baseline. This edition saw broad participation, with 427 teams submitting 1,129 entries across the five tasks and 28 teams contributing reviewed technical reports. This paper describes each task and its evaluation protocol, presents the challenge leaderboards, and summarizes the leading submissions, with the aim of documenting the current state of each task as measured on held-out challenge data.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Cioppa, Anthony, Giancola, Silvio, Ardö, Håkan, Dalal, Mohamad, Held, Jan, Ochin, Jérémie, Rao, Jiayuan, Sanchez, Karen, Vandeghen, Renaud, Xarles, Artur, Barnich, Olivier, Clapés, Albert, Delvaux, Mathieu, Escalera, Sergio, Ghanem, Bernard, Hons, Cédric, Houet, Antoine, Manitsaris, Sotiris, Michel, Tom, Miralles, Pierre, Moeslund, Thomas B., Nilsson, Mikael, Stanciulescu, Bogdan, Van Droogenbroeck, Marc, Wang, Yanfeng, Xie, Weidi, Altawijri, Faisal, Atef, Mohamed, Budennyy, Semen, Chelpanov, Vasiliy, Chen, Puhua, Chen, Yixin, Cheng, Lechao, Chu, Jianling, Do, Ju-Seong, Durygin, Oleg, Fetouh, Omar, Fuchs, Mirco, Ghallab, Youssef, Ghosh, Falguni, Heo, Wonjun, Hu, Yufeng, Huang, Weixuan, Huynh-Ha, Phuong-Linh, Isupov, Matvey, Ji, Yangguang, Jiang, Siyuan, Jiang, Zhenxiang, Jo, Wonyong, Jung, Ho-Young, Kang, SeongHeon, Kim, MinJae, Kim, Youngseon, Komosa, Jakub, Konshin, Artem, Le, Trung-Hoang, Lee, Jongmin, Li, Lingling, Li, Litao, Linkov, Vadim, Liu, Fang, Ma, Haoxuan, Makino, Shun, Mathkour, Ismail, Mitin, Konstantin, Moiseev, Mikhail, Nagaya, Takumi, Nakamura, Yuki, Nguyen, Thanh-Khoi, Nguyen, Hoang-Phuc, Nguyen, Trong-Thuan, Orduz, Christian, Park, Kwanyong, Perez, Fabian, Rawat, Parthsarthi, Rim, SuHyun, Rueda-Chacón, Hoover, Scott, Atom, Sugimura, Minori, Sun, Yuyang, Tang, Shengeng, Tran, Minh-Triet, Uchida, Ikuma, Vanegas, Juan, Vo, Thanh-Nhan, Wang, Jiangtao, Wang, Yaxiong, Wang, Xiaogang, Wang, Ruifeng, Watanabe, Rio, Wen, Jiali, Wu, Yongliang, Yang, Di, Yang, Xu, Yang, Zhuo, Ye, Xinyu, Yu, Yibo, Zhai, Zihan, Zhang, Yu, Zhao, Zhenyu, Zhong, Zhun, Zhou, Yixi, Zhu, Xingyu, Zhu, Wenbo, Ziegler, Julian
Institutions: University of Liège, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Centre de Robotique, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Computer Vision Center, Universitat de Barcelona, Lund University, Hefei University of Technology, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, South China University of Technology, Kyungpook National University, Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, University of Seoul, Nanjing University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Science, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, Chung-Ang University, Warsaw University of Technology, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, University of Tsukuba, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Nagoya University, Southeast University, University of Science and Technology of China, Southwest University, Peking University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins University, University of California, Berkeley
Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7167801573