🔍 Scouting Guide

How to Scout Players with
PitchStats Pro

A complete guide to the scouting tools inside PitchStats Pro — from structured evaluation forms and radar charts to professional PDF reports and visual scout cards. Includes a live demo report for a fictional player.

📅 April 22, 2026·⏱ 6 min read·PitchStats Team

Whether you're a club scout tracking prospects across multiple leagues, a head coach building a transfer shortlist, or a youth team director evaluating your own academy players — PitchStats Pro gives you a structured, data-driven scouting system that fits in your pocket.

This guide walks you through every scouting feature, explains the rating system, and ends with a live demo of a scout report and a visual PNG scout card — generated from the same tools available inside the app.

Step 1

Structured Evaluation Forms

Every player in PitchStats Pro has a dedicated scout evaluation form divided into four categories: Technical, Tactical, Physical, and Mental.

Each individual skill is rated on a 1–100 scale with optional written notes per attribute. You can also add free-text strengths and weaknesses, a projected role, and a final recommendation: Sign, Monitor, or Reject.

Technical

  • First Touch
  • Passing
  • Dribbling
  • Shooting
  • Crossing

Tactical

  • Positioning
  • Decision Making
  • Off-ball Movement
  • Team Structure

Physical

  • Pace
  • Strength
  • Agility
  • Stamina

Mental

  • Concentration
  • Competitiveness
  • Coachability

Step 2

Radar Charts — Visualise Every Attribute

Once you've filled in the evaluation form, PitchStats Pro automatically generates four radar charts — one per category. These give you an instant visual fingerprint of the player's profile. At a glance you can see which areas are strong, where development is needed, and whether the player fits the role you're recruiting for.

The radar charts are generated from your own entered data — no algorithms, no black boxes. What you rate is what you see.

📊 Demo Radar Charts — Marcus Lindström

Technical

First TouchPassingDribblingShootingCrossing

Tactical

PositioningDecision MakingOff Ball MovementTeam Structure

Physical

PaceStrengthAgilityStamina

Mental

ConcentrationCompetitivenessCoachability

Step 3

Watchlist & Recruitment Recommendations

Add any scouted player to your Watchlist with a priority level — High Priority or To Track. The Scouting Dashboard gives you a searchable, filterable database of all your prospects, sorted by rating or recommendation status.

Sign

Player is ready — recommend signing immediately.

Monitor

Promising but needs more observation. Keep watching.

Reject

Does not meet the criteria for this role or club.

Step 4

Export PDF Reports & PNG Scout Cards

With one tap you can export a full, professional PDF Scout Report — including all radar charts, attribute bars, strengths/weaknesses, notes, and recommendation. Perfect for sharing with a sporting director or board.

You can also export a compact PNG Scout Card — a visual summary card with the player's scores, radar, and key info. Ideal for quick sharing via WhatsApp, email or presentations.

  • Full radar charts for all four categories
  • Attribute bars with colour-coded scores
  • Strengths, weaknesses and projected role
  • Scout notes and match observation details
  • Recommendation badge (Sign / Monitor / Reject)
  • PNG card fits any presentation or message thread
🎯 Live Demo — Fictional Player

Demo Scout Report

This is what a real scout report looks like inside PitchStats Pro. Player and club are fictional.

Scout Report✓ Sign

Marcus Lindström

Central Midfielder · IFK Göteborg U21

78

Overall

Age: 19
Nationality: 🇸🇪 Sweden
Height: 183 cm
Foot: Right
Potential: B+

Skill Radar Charts

Technical

First TouchPassingDribblingShootingCrossing

Tactical

PositioningDecision MakingOff Ball MovementTeam Structure

Physical

PaceStrengthAgilityStamina

Mental

ConcentrationCompetitivenessCoachability

Attribute Ratings

Technical

first touch80
passing85
dribbling72
shooting65
crossing68

Tactical

positioning82
decision making78
off ball movement75
team structure80

Physical

pace74
strength70
agility76
stamina82

Mental

concentration79
competitiveness83
coachability88

Strengths

  • Vision & passing range
  • Press resistance
  • High work rate
  • Excellent coachability

Areas to Improve

  • ✕ Shooting technique needs work
  • ✕ Aerial duels

Projected Role

Box-to-box midfielder / Deep-lying playmaker

Scout Notes

Outstanding attitude in training. Reads the game well for his age. Has the profile to develop into a top-level CM with proper coaching. Recommend signing on a 2-year contract.

Match observed: IFK Göteborg U21 vs Djurgårdens IF U21 — March 2026

🃏 PNG Scout Card Preview

Visual Scout Card

Export a compact visual card to share via WhatsApp, email or a presentation.

PitchStats Pro · Scout Card

Marcus Lindström

Central Midfielder · IFK Göteborg U21

78

OVERALL

74
Technical
79
Tactical
76
Physical
83
Mental
First TouchPassingDribblingShootingCrossingPositioningDecision MakingOff Ball MovementTeam Structure

Key Strengths

Vision & passing rangePress resistanceHigh work rateExcellent coachability

🇸🇪 Sweden · 19 yrs · Right foot

✓ Sign

Why Structured Scouting Matters

Gut feeling has its place in football. But when you're recommending to a board, justifying a signing budget, or comparing two players for the same role, you need data to back up your opinion. PitchStats Pro gives you a repeatable, objective framework for every player you evaluate — so your decisions are defensible, sharable, and trackable over time.

And because everything lives in the same app as your live match stats, training sessions, and tactical boards — your scouting data connects naturally to everything else you know about a player.

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