SportTechie · Jan 25, 2018
Bayern Munich’s HackDays Another Step On Club’s Digitization Mission
MUNICH — While U.S. sports have embraced the hackathon, with the NBA hosting its own hack, European sports and their teams by contrast have been much slower to jump into this space.
While English soccer team Manchester City held a hackathon for the past two years, compared to the NBA’s and others in the U.S., these events have tended to be smaller in size.
FC Bayern Munich, one of the most storied clubs in European soccer, decided to hold its own inaugural hackathon this past weekend and took inspiration from U.S. sports organizations in doing so.
FC Bayern HackDays invited 220 participants from over 40 countries to take part in a hackathon, which was held at the club’s iconic Allianz Arena.