Android Mobile Application: UTP Football League Verification

Football or commonly known as soccer, can be said as the most popular sport in many countries including Malaysia. It is a sport that people often talk about and play the whole time. However, scandal such as cheating has become one of the common issues in sport like football. Even at the professional levels, there were many scandals reported regarding the cheating issues in football. For instance, using an illegal players or performing the rolling substitution between the players without the knowledge of higher authorities can be said as the main concerns of cheating issues in the world of football nowadays. There-fore, for that reason, the objectives of this project is to provide a solution to the above mentioned issue by using the technology of mobile application as well as the barcode scanner. This project will be specifically focused on developing the mobile application that has the ability to verify the identity of players involved. With this solution, the man-agement will be able to store, update and verify each of the player’s information, who have been registered or participate in any football league or tournament. Hence, it will help the management to reduce the cheating issues in football as well as increasing the efficiency of management in handling a sport event or competition. As a result, several of preliminary studies and analysis have been performed throughout this paper in order to achieve the project objectives.