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Traditionally speaking, the term football player database was taken to refer to a compilation of information on football players. Every league was expected to have such a database. Many football federations also kept such databases: where people with interest in the players under their jurisdiction (for instance clubs looking to sign them up) could easily find information on the footballers in question.

The definition of the database as a ‘compilation’ of information still holds to this day. What has changed though, is who keeps such databases. This is a situation where the leagues and football federations find that they are no longer the only custodians of such databases. For there are individuals who, capitalizing on the huge wealth of information and freedom that the Internet has placed at our fingertips, have gone ahead to create bigger and better databases of footballer information.

The beauty of the individual-controlled footballer databases is that they tend to be freely accessible. This is very unlike the league and federation-controlled databases, to which access tended to be very conditional: never mind the fact that they hardly contained any personal player information that could be misused in any way. Most of these individual-controlled databases have also been automated, and made available for any one who wants the information in them over the Internet.

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