
AgenticAI.Football
Safe Football AI For Clubs and Their Communities. Part of an IBM Partner Programme
Safely Connecting Football, Regional Team namespaces (England.Community, Scotland.Community, Wales.Community), earning revenue, Cancer Research fundraising
Overview & Core Concept
EthicallySourced™.AI is AI whose identity, provenance, authority, operational controls, and accountable operator can be established through verifiable evidence, and whose authority can be withdrawn through a defined and tested revocation process.
TAER (Team Agent Emergency Revocation) is an important element of EthicallySourced™.AI. It addresses a fundamental requirement of production Agentic AI: an organisation must not only be able to identify and authorise an AI Agent, but also be able to stop it, isolate it, revoke its authority, and preserve evidence of what happened.
Ethically Sourced™ Passport & Monitoring Architecture
An Ethically Sourced™ Identity/Passport makes TAER addressable, while a separate monitoring layer makes TAER detectable and actionable.
An Ethically Sourced™ Identity or AI Agent makes TAER much easier to invoke. AgenticAI.Football provides Ethically Sourced™ Identities for Football Related AI Agents.
SafeAI.Football — The Football AI Safety & Assurance Layer
SafeAI.Football is the dedicated safety and assurance layer within the AgenticAI.Football Programme. It applies the EthicallySourced™.AI framework to football AI Agents through Agent Safety Passports, defined authority levels, a Safety Sandbox, Agent-to-Agent Trust Protocol, continuous monitoring, and TAER emergency revocation.
Programme Architecture
One framework spanning national, regional, and club layers. The programme uses AgenticAI.Football as the identity, governance, and Agent infrastructure; professional clubs as regional anchors; national .Community / .1 dual stacks as coordination and discovery layers; and regional Team sites as local-context intelligence layers.
SafeAI.Football operates across every layer
SafeAI.Football does not replace the club, community, or namespace layers. It provides a common safety and assurance framework across them: identity verification, Agent Safety Passport status, authority and permission checks, monitored interaction, human escalation, and emergency revocation.
Operational Model
Useful activity across four core pillars:
Agent Safety & Certification
Registration, governance reviews, and recurring certification administration for programme Agents, including the proposed Ethically Sourced™ certification requirement.
Ethically Sourced™ Agent-in-a-Box
Packages for grassroots clubs, foundations, and community organisations covering administration, grants, sponsors, volunteers, and engagement.
Cancer Research Fundraising
Building giving directly into the programme transparently and verifiably.
Regional Agent Teams
Disclaimer. All AI agents hosted on the Regional Teams platform are independent, community-developed tools created solely for local civic and community utility. They are not affiliated with, associated with, authorized by, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with any professional sports team, football club, league, or commercial entity. All product, brand, and company names mentioned remain registered trademarks™ of their respective holders; their mention does not imply any affiliation or endorsement. AI Agents featured in the community section of this platform platform are meant for the benefit of the community, and are not used for sports, sports analytics, athletic entertainment, or fan merchandise.The “team” is used in the sense of “AI Agents for the community” team.
SafeAI.Football Safety & Assurance Framework
SafeAI.Football provides the programme-wide controls through which football and community AI Agents can establish identity, demonstrate permitted authority, interact with other Agents, and be monitored or stopped when necessary.
Agent Safety Passport
Each participating Agent can carry a machine-verifiable Safety Passport recording its identity, accountable operator, purpose, capabilities, permissions, approved tools, permitted data access, authority level, governance status, human owner, escalation route, monitoring status, review date, and TAER status.
Authority Levels
| Level | Authority | Operating Principle |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Discovery | Discover permitted public or programme information. |
| L1 | Read | Access authorised information without changing systems or records. |
| L2 | Recommend | Analyse information and prepare recommendations for people. |
| L3 | Human-Approved Execution | Perform an action only after approval by an authorised person. |
| L4 | Delegated Execution | Execute narrowly defined actions autonomously within pre-agreed limits and monitoring. |
Materially consequential programme activity can be configured to require appropriate human authority, with higher levels granted only for clearly bounded use cases.
SafeAI.Football Safety Sandbox
Before production participation, new or materially changed Agents can be tested in a controlled environment for identity, permissions, tool access, Agent-to-Agent interaction, human approval, logging, monitoring, incident handling, and TAER response.
Agent-to-Agent Trust Protocol
Before an Agent interaction is permitted, the programme can verify both identity and current authority. This allows professional-club, football-industry, regional Team, and Community Agents to interact through a common trust handshake.
Monitoring & TAER
A separate monitoring layer observes relevant Agent activity and makes TAER detectable and actionable. Where required, an authorised operator can restrict, suspend, isolate, or revoke an Agent while preserving evidence for review.
TAER response: stop the Agent; revoke credentials and authority; remove approved tool access; block programme Agent-to-Agent interaction where applicable; quarantine pending actions; notify the accountable human owner; preserve logs; investigate; and require human approval before reinstatement.
2026 Regional Workshops Event Schedule
Initial schedule of regional workshops launching national endpoints and Community.Team sites and their Discovery and Interaction. They will also introduce Partner capabilities, and include optional Industry Vertical Sessions for participating clubs.
| Date & Gateway | Root Namespace(s) & Clubs | Optional Industry Sessions | IBM Product Possibles |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 Scottish.Team Aberdeen |
Scottish.Team · GlasgowFeatured: Celtic, Hibernian, Rangers |
Joint Industry Session & Dedicated Football Workshop | IBM watsonx routing models, OpenShift hosting, supply chain risk management consulting. |
| 16th Nov 2026 GreaterLondon.Team London |
Premiership: Arsenal, Brentford, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur Championship: Charlton Athletic, Millwall, QPR, West Ham United |
Bringing Safe AI To Football | IBM Security, identity management integration, automated compliance framework setup. |
| 23rd Nov 2026 SouthEast.Team Brighton |
Premiership: Brighton & Hove Albion Championship: Portsmouth, Southampton, Watford |
Facilitating Football Supply Chains | IBM Blockchain / Transparent Supply integration, data provenance consulting, trade gateway audit. |
| 30th Nov 2026 Wales.1 Wales |
Championship: Cardiff City, Swansea City, Wrexham | Machine-readable identities for procurement agents operating in restricted environments. | Hybrid cloud orchestration, sovereign data compliance, watsonx Orchestrate deployment. |
| 14th Dec 2026 Yorkshire.Team Yorkshire Region |
Yorkshire.Team · BarnsleyPremiership: Leeds United, Hull City Championship: Sheffield United |
AI Adoption & AI Infrastructure: Regional adoption environment discovering and interacting with an AI infrastructure ecosystem. | watsonx Orchestrate; agent governance; hybrid-cloud architecture; Red Hat OpenShift. |
2027 Workshops Event Schedule
| Date & Gateway | Featured Endpoints & Clubs | Optional Industry Sessions | IBM Product Possibles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 18 Jan 2027 EastEngland.Team |
Suffolk.Team · East of EnglandPremiership: Ipswich Town Championship: Norwich City |
Skeletal-Motion Rights as a new Asset Class and as a Revenue Generator. | watsonx; AI governance; data integration; security; OpenShift. |
| Mon 25 Jan 2027 EastMidlands.Team |
Nottinghamshire.Team · NottinghamPremiership: Nottingham Forest Championship: Derby County, Lincoln City |
Machine-readable supplier identities, parts/product discovery, asset lifecycle, and export supply-chain workflows. | Maximo Application Suite; watsonx; OpenShift; AI-agent orchestration. |
| Mon 1 Feb 2027 NorthEast.Team |
North East · Newcastle Premiership: Newcastle United, Sunderland Championship: Middlesbrough |
Supplier discovery, provenance, carbon data, and commercial/offtake workflows. | Envizi ESG Suite; watsonx; Maximo; hybrid-cloud/data integration. |
| Mon 8 Feb 2027 NorthWestEngland.Team |
GreaterManchester.Team (Man Utd, Man City)Merseyside.Team (Liverpool, Everton)WestYorkshire.Team (Leeds Utd)Championship: Blackburn, Bolton, Burnley, Preston |
GTIN-enabled product discovery, distributor/wholesaler workflows, logistics, inventory. | watsonx Orchestrate; data integration; AI automation; supply-chain architecture. |
| Mon 15 Feb 2027 SouthWest.Team |
Premiership: Bristol | Trusted agent discovery, multi-agent orchestration, computer-use environments, and governed enterprise AI. | watsonx Orchestrate Agentic Control Plane; watsonx.ai/data; OpenShift; security/governance. |
| Mon 22 Feb 2027 WestMidlands.Team |
Birmingham.Team (Aston Villa)Championship: Birmingham City, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers |
Regional intelligence layer & community AI integration. | Hybrid cloud, AI Agent governance, and watsonx integration. |
Football as an Anchor for Community AI
Regional Teams act as local-context intelligence layers with responsibility for knowledge that is genuinely regional with regards to helping football clubs outside the top leagues, using football for community support, and raising money for cancer research.
Core Principle
England.Community, Scotland.Community and Wales.Community provide an AI coordination, discovery and trust layer over the existing ecosystem.
“AI Agents make the connections. People make the decisions.”
Ecosystem Agent Families
- Grassroots Football Agent: Helps grassroots clubs find facilities, coaches, volunteers, fixtures, equipment, funding, and professional-club community programmes.
- Community Concierge Agent: Provides residents with a simple conversational interface: “What football, training, volunteering or community opportunities are available for my family in this area?”
- Grassroots AI-in-a-Box: Governed AI Agent assisting small clubs with membership administration, communications, volunteer coordination, grant & sponsor discovery, facilities, fixtures, and community engagement.
National Network Implementations
Scotland.Community: Leverages the SPFL Trust network of 46 community trusts across the men’s and women’s game, and the Scottish FA’s Extra Time programme delivering activity across 27 local authorities.
Wales.Community: Developed around Welsh football’s specific geography and community structures.
England.Community, Scotland.Community, and Wales.Community use a common Agent protocol while retaining distinct national identities.
Complete End-to-End Delivery Architecture
The complete hierarchical flow from infrastructure layer down to tangible community results:
SafeAI.Football (Safety, Assurance, Monitoring & TAER)
Namespace Steward (Trusted Identities)
Premiership.Team / Professional Football (Club & Football Agents)
Agent Safety Passport / Ethically Sourced™ Passport (Trust, Capability, Permissions & Authority)
England.Community | Scotland.Community | Wales.Community (National Community Networks)
Community AI Agents (Discovery, Matching & Coordination)
Human Decision & Delivery
Measurable Community Outcomes
Agent Teams Provisioning
AI Agents Discovery and Interaction and Naming Conventions
AgenticAI.Football is a space where Authorized AI Agents of Football Clubs, can discover and interact with the AI Agents in the Football Industry, as well as Community “Team” AI Agents. The Authorized AI Agent Team namespaces for featured football clubs, will follow the naming format below:
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Commercial & Social Impact Metrics
The programme measures combined financial sustainability and real-world social contribution:
Agent-in-a-Box SubscriptionsSponsor Income AgenticAI.Football • SafeAI.Football • EthicallySourced™.AI • England.Community • Scotland.Community • Wales.Community
