SoccerNet 2026 Challenges Results
Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Håkan Ardö, Mohamad Dalal, Jan Held, Jérémie Ochin, Jiayuan Rao, Karen Sanchez, Renaud Vandeghen, Artur Xarles, Olivier Barnich, Albert Clapés, Mathieu Delvaux, Sergio Escalera, Bernard Ghanem, Cédric Hons, Antoine Houet, Sotiris Manitsaris, Tom Michel, Pierre Miralles, Thomas B. Moeslund, Mikael Nilsson, Bogdan Stanciulescu, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Yanfeng Wang, Weidi Xie, Faisal Altawijri, Mohamed Atef, Semen Budennyy, Vasiliy Chelpanov, Puhua Chen, Yixin Chen, Lechao Cheng, Jianling Chu, Ju-Seong Do, Oleg Durygin, Omar Fetouh, Mirco Fuchs, Youssef Ghallab, Falguni Ghosh, Wonjun Heo, Yufeng Hu, Weixuan Huang, Phuong-Linh Huynh-Ha, Matvey Isupov, Yangguang Ji, Siyuan Jiang, Zhenxiang Jiang, Wonyong Jo, Ho-Young Jung, SeongHeon Kang, MinJae Kim, Youngseon Kim, Jakub Komosa, Artem Konshin, Trung-Hoang Le, Jongmin Lee, Lingling Li, Litao Li, Vadim Linkov, Fang Liu, Haoxuan Ma, Shun Makino, Ismail Mathkour, Konstantin Mitin, Mikhail Moiseev, Takumi Nagaya, Yuki Nakamura, Thanh-Khoi Nguyen, Hoang-Phuc Nguyen, Trong-Thuan Nguyen, Christian Orduz, Kwanyong Park, Fabian Perez, Parthsarthi Rawat, SuHyun Rim, Hoover Rueda-Chacón, Atom Scott, Minori Sugimura, Yuyang Sun, Shengeng Tang, Minh-Triet Tran, Ikuma Uchida, Juan Vanegas, Thanh-Nhan Vo, Jiangtao Wang, Yaxiong Wang, Xiaogang Wang, Ruifeng Wang, Rio Watanabe, Jiali Wen, Yongliang Wu, Di Yang, Xu Yang, Zhuo Yang, Xinyu Ye, Yibo Yu, Zihan Zhai, Yu Zhang, Zhenyu Zhao, Zhun Zhong, Yixi Zhou, Xingyu Zhu, Wenbo Zhu, Julian Ziegler
The SoccerNet 2026 Challenges constitute the sixth annual edition of the SoccerNet open benchmarking effort, dedicated to advancing computer vision research in sports video understanding. This year's challenges span five vision-based tasks: (1) Ball Action Anticipation, predicting the timing and class of ball-related actions within a short future window from a preceding observation window; (2) Player-Centric Ball Action Spotting, temporally localizing and classifying ball-related actions while assigning each action to the acting player through team affiliation and jersey number; (3) Novel View Synthesis, rendering images from unobserved camera poses in multi-view football scenes; (4) Spiideo SoccerNet Synloc, localizing athletes in real-world pitch coordinates from a single calibrated static-camera image; and (5) Visual Question Answering, answering multiple-choice questions about football broadcasts across text, image, and video inputs. For each task, participants were provided with annotated data, a unified evaluation protocol, and a public baseline. This edition saw broad participation, with 427 teams submitting 1,129 entries across the five tasks and 28 teams contributing reviewed technical reports. This paper describes each task and its evaluation protocol, presents the challenge leaderboards, and summarizes the leading submissions, with the aim of documenting the current state of each task as measured on held-out challenge data.