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Arnaud Depraetere, Sports Doctor at EVOLVE

Arnaud Depraetere

Sports Doctor

Sports medicine leader shaping methodology, player care, and return-to-play strategy.

Tim Pieters, Data & Integrations Lead at EVOLVE

Tim Pieters

Data & Integrations Lead

Data architecture, third-party integrations, and applied machine learning for predictive insights.

Arne De Doncker, Engineering & Security at EVOLVE

Arne De Doncker

Engineering & Security

Platform and mobile engineering, reliability, and security best practices across the stack.

Birth of EVOLVE

EVOLVE grew out of real work inside professional football.

After years working in football as a sports doctor, our man in the field kept hitting the same wall: chaotic files, scattered data, unstructured communication, and systems that simply weren't good enough.

We assumed elite clubs ran on a unified platform. The reality was the opposite. The industry needed something built from the inside, by people who understand football's reality.

When our sports doctor met two co-founders, one leading data and integrations, the other engineering and security, we had the exact combination to solve the missing puzzle.

This was the birth of EVOLVE: clarity, structure, and integration for football performance and medical care.

Why EVOLVE

Football doesn't just need more data. It needs connected data: clear, unified, and actionable. Less noise. More insight. Better decisions.

We give football organizations a single source of truth: performance, medical, wellness, and readiness connected in one secure platform.

In a market full of rigid performance platforms, EVOLVE stands apart on a simple philosophy: football staff deserve tools that adapt to them, not the other way around.

Roadmap

  1. 01

    Project kickoff

    November 2024

    Initial research with clubs and practitioners; integration groundwork for Catapult.

  2. 02

    MVP

    November 2025

    Unified dashboards, questionnaires, and core workflows for early partner clubs.

  3. 03

    Predictive modelling

    In development

    Applying machine learning to anticipate risk and support decisions.

  4. 04

    Continuous improvement

    Ongoing

    Ongoing refinements with practitioner feedback and measurable outcomes.

Built in Ghent. Support like no other.

EVOLVE is built and run from Ghent, Belgium, by people who know football from the inside, not a vendor an ocean away.

Wherever your club plays, support is direct and personal: you talk to the people who build EVOLVE, and the platform is shaped around your staff, your workflows, and your context. Your performance and medical data stays protected under European rules, GDPR by default.

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