Case Study: United Soccer League achieves fast, scalable analytics with AWS Glue

How the United Soccer League and Data Elephant built a modern data platform on AWS, driving confidence in data and enabling growth of the league

United Soccer League (USL), the largest and fastest-growing pre-professional and professional soccer organization in North America, needed a more modern way to manage and use its data. Its existing CSV and Excel-based processes couldn’t deliver timely, reliable, or deep business insights to help clubs make better decisions and support league growth. AWS Glue was part of the AWS-based analytics stack used to help address this challenge.

AWS Glue, together with Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, AWS Amplify, AWS Step Functions, and AWS Lambda, helped power a scalable cloud data platform for USL. The new solution integrated 17 data domains, cut time to insights from days to hours, and raised data accuracy from 55% to over 90%. With more complete and trusted data, USL clubs gained actionable insights that supported revenue growth and laid the groundwork for future machine learning and generative AI initiatives.

United Soccer League

Adam Satz

SVP, Tech & Data Strategy