Veřejná webová platforma pro integraci dat a poskytování statistik fotbalových hráčů

The diploma thesis deals with the analysis, design and implementation of a public web platform, which integrates data and provides statistics of all football players playing in the Czech Republic. The main goal is to provide useful and interesting data about any player using a public web platform. Thanks to secondary research and questionnaire surveys, player's requirements are identified, coaches, scouts and other persons from the football environment. The research focuses on how the data is used and its content. A review of a selected six existing football data systems shows, that there is a lack of required data on Czech players playing at different levels and categories of competitions. Based on the analysis, a web-based platform is designed and implemented, that extracts, transforms and stores data on football players of all levels in the Czech Republic. Due to the lack of automatic access to match data, web scraping was used for data extraction. Finally, a public API is created that publishes data and statistics of Czech players. The created platform is not optimized for processing all members and matches, including history older than two years, and then handling tens of thousands of requests per minute. However, it is used to verify the possibility of creating and operating such a web platform, which can be further developed. With further development and optimization, it is able to offer real-time statistics and player development over time at all football levels.