Summary

Lenovo says it deployed more than 25,000 devices and a range of AI, broadcast and operational systems across FIFA World Cup 2026. Its recap describes tools for team analysis, referee-perspective video, officiating replays and tournament coordination.

Lenovo says it supplied and managed more than 25,000 Lenovo and Motorola devices for FIFA World Cup 2026, alongside infrastructure, services and AI systems. The company’s tournament recap says the deployment covered more than 600 FIFA sites across three host countries, with support from over 350 Lenovo engineers and operational specialists. Lenovo reported 99.99% uptime across its solutions.

The systems addressed several different parts of the event: providing match analysis to teams, processing referee-perspective video for broadcasts, supporting offside replays and bringing operational data together for FIFA staff. The figures and performance descriptions here are reported by Lenovo.

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A large, distributed deployment

The tournament spanned 16 cities, 48 teams and 104 matches, according to Lenovo. Its technology footprint included stadiums, broadcast centres, team base camps, command centres and other FIFA operational sites. The company described the deployment as a combination of devices, data-centre infrastructure, edge computing, managed services and operational support, rather than a single platform.

At the International Broadcast Centre in Dallas, Lenovo infrastructure supported live video data, IPTV distribution and AI-driven solutions. Lenovo also says it enabled near-real-time IPTV delivery, with an average latency of six seconds, to more than 1,000 screens across FIFA venues. Latency is the delay between a live event and its appearance on a screen; reducing it can help keep venue displays closer to the action as it happens.

AI for team analysis and live broadcasts

FIFA AI Pro, developed by Lenovo and FIFA, gave all 48 teams access to tournament data and analysis. Lenovo says the platform drew on millions of data points and more than 2,000 performance metrics, presenting insights through reports, graphs, video clips and 3D match recreations. Coaches and analysts could query official football data and match footage in natural language. During the tournament, it was used in 16 languages, with thousands of queries from more than 300 individual users, according to the company.

That design put a common analysis tool within reach of every participating team. Lenovo said the system was built using its AI Factory and enterprise AI capabilities; the announcement does not describe how individual teams used its outputs in their decisions.

Another AI application was Referee View, which processed footage captured from a referee’s body camera. Lenovo says its video analytics platform stabilized the fast-moving footage in real time and reduced camera jitter by up to 60%, producing a smoother broadcast view from the referee’s perspective. The company said broadcasters received thousands of minutes of additional broadcast-quality footage.

Officiating and tournament operations

For offside replays, Lenovo created 3D digital avatars of all 1,248 players in the tournament. The company says the individualized models were generated using player scans and AI processing, then used to support Semi-Automated Offside Technology replays. The avatars added player-specific visual models to the replays, helping show the positions involved in an offside decision.

Lenovo also supplied FIFA’s Intelligent Command Center, which operated as part of the Tournament Operations Center. The platform brought information from more than 40 FIFA functional areas into a shared operational view. Lenovo says this helped staff coordinate work involving areas such as security, ticketing, infrastructure, logistics and communications across the tournament’s locations.

Taken together, these deployments show how the technology role extended from team-facing analysis to broadcast production and behind-the-scenes coordination. Lenovo’s reported uptime and performance figures describe its own delivery; the company announcement does not provide the measurement methods for those figures.

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