The Arena
The measurement system.
A 12m × 12m enclosed environment. Six automated phases. The only space in football where every rep becomes certified data. Hardware deployed at licensed sites worldwide.
Explore the Arena → Why this exists
The 0.3-second blind spot.
The fastest separating skill in football — the ability to perceive, process, and act under real match pressure — happens in under 0.3 seconds. It is the primary determinant of performance at elite level, and it is almost entirely absent from organised training.
82% of coaches still evaluate players with the eye test. There is no standardised protocol for cognitive-technical load. No cross-platform database. No certified benchmark that travels with a player as they develop.
Evolver was built to close that loop. Not incrementally — completely. The Arena trains it. The EVO Score measures it. EPIC validates it. The EDAC network scales it.
Reference: Faubert (2013), Ericsson (2008), Seifert et al. (2013). Available at /epic.
Where every rep becomes data.
Every session in the Arena generates a certified, comparable EVO Score. Every player in EDAC contributes to a global benchmark. Every data point makes the next one more valuable.
The company
Rising Match Lda.
Rising Match Lda is a Portuguese company incorporated and headquartered in Lisbon. We operate the Evolver 360 brand and commercialise the full ecosystem — the Arena hardware, the platform and data stack, the EDAC community, and the EPIC scientific institution.
Lisbon was a deliberate choice. A city at the intersection of Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Home to one of the world's most football-dense cultures. A reference site close to the top-flight academies and clubs that will shape how the Evolver Certified Benchmark scales globally.
We are a small team with a precise mandate: build the objective standard for football performance that does not yet exist. Everything in the business — commercial model, scientific governance, community architecture — is designed to serve that one goal.
Entity Rising Match Lda
Incorporated Lisbon, Portugal
Brand Evolver 360
Reference site Lisbon, Portugal
The ecosystem
Five pillars. One compounding standard.
Each component reinforces the others. The more players train, the more accurate the benchmark. The more certified sites contribute, the more valuable every score becomes.
EDAC
The digital academy.
Evolver Digital Athletic Club. Free membership for any footballer. Progressive training protocols, SAC assessments, and the global EVO Score leaderboard — open to all.
Join Now →EVO Score
The universal standard.
A single 0–100 composite of technical execution, cognitive speed, physical output, and perceptual accuracy. Objective. Repeatable. Comparable across players, sites, and seasons.
How scoring works →EPIC
The scientific institution.
Evolver Performance Intelligence Centre. The credibility anchor for everything we claim. EPIC validates the protocol, publishes findings, and convenes the global research community.
Inside EPIC →Clubs & Academies
The certified network.
Licensed operators. Certified benchmarks. A growing network of sites that contribute to a global percentile standard — the only cross-site, objective football metric that exists.
For clubs → Science, not marketing
EPIC. Certified, not claimed.
The Evolver Performance Intelligence Centre is the independent scientific institution that anchors everything Evolver claims. Based in Lisbon, EPIC validates the training protocol, governs the benchmark methodology, publishes peer-reviewed findings, and convenes the international research community behind the standard.
Without EPIC, the EVO Score is a product claim. With EPIC, it is a certified scientific standard.
The research foundation
Prof. Jocelyn Faubert 3D Multiple Object Tracking and
perceptual-cognitive training under load (2013).
The foundational evidence for cognitive training
in elite football.
Prof. K. Anders Ericsson Deliberate practice theory (2008). The
framework for structured, feedback-driven skill
acquisition that underpins the EDAC protocol
design.
Seifert et al. Ecological dynamics and adaptive skill
acquisition (2013). The theoretical basis for
coupling perception and action in the Arena
environment.
"Professional athletes who received perceptual-cognitive training showed significantly better performance improvements than those who did not."
— Faubert, J. (2013). Scientific Reports