Grounded on the touchline
Our workflows are built around how Nigerian turf venues, referees, and coaches actually operate on Saturday mornings.
About us
We exist so no matchday or prospect is lost to administrative chaos.
Sportdesk is a Nigerian sports operations company turning touchline match sheets and 10Hz wearable telemetry into pitch-level intelligence for football academies and regional leagues.
Our story
An operational gap hiding in plain sight.
Across every youth academy and metropolitan league we worked with, avoidable season disruptions traced back to three things: double-booked turf pitches, unverified player records on paper sheets, and overloaded prospects breaking down after midweek tournaments.
For years, professional scheduling solvers and 10Hz biometric workload tracking were priced strictly for foreign top-flight clubs. Grassroots and academy directors were left stitching together WhatsApp threads and Excel sheets every Friday night.
Sportdesk sits in that gap. We pair local football operations know-how with offline-first touchline tools and automated telemetry so every Saturday fixture runs on time and every athlete builds a verifiable career record.
What we believe
Good matchday operations come first; telemetry serves them.
Auditable records
Every lineup, substitution, and sprint metric is timestamped and signed rather than reconstructed days later.
Academy-first ownership
Your squad rosters, biometric data, and scouting dossiers belong to your academy. We earn renewal by keeping your season running cleanly.
Our mission
Help every football organisation run punctual, safer seasons.
Our team
Founders building Sportdesk.
A focused operations and engineering team based in Yaba, Lagos.
Tunde Balogun
Co-founder & CEO
Ten years directing youth football operations, multi-venue tournament scheduling, and scouting logistics across Nigeria. Works directly with academy directors and league secretaries to keep Sportdesk grounded in how matchdays are actually run.
Kelechi Nwosu
Co-founder & CTO
Distributed systems and sports telemetry architect. Leads the constraint-based fixture engine, offline-first touchline sync, and the 10Hz biometric ingestion pipeline that powers player workload alerts.
Where we work
Live and pilot markets.
NigeriaGhanaCôte d’IvoireSenegalKenya
We list only markets where we operate live deployments or run active tournament pilots.