Our Faculty

Injury prevention, soccer technology and talent identification, drawn from first-team spells at Lech Poznan, Legia Warszawa, Al Jazira and Al Ettifaq.

A practitioner-academic: a PhD from Pablo de Olavide, an associate professorship at Murcia, and years of coach education delivered through the Murcia Football Federation.

Brazilian coach-educator on tactical training and youth development, teaching at UFMG and instructing on the CBF Academy's coach-education programme.

Editor-in-Chief of Football Studies and scientific advisor to JOHAN Sports, working on training monitoring and how squads read the demands of a match.

Resilience and performing under pressure, from the academy side of the game: sport psychologist at Fulham, previously Chelsea, with a distinction MSc from Brunel.

Manchester United's academy psychology lead, after nearly a decade shaping psychological support and performance lifestyle across the club's age groups.

First-team data scientist at FC Porto, building the dashboards and pipelines that turn match and training data into decisions staff can act on the same day.

Two years inside Sevilla's performance optimisation department: strength work, conditioning support and GPS monitoring across the club's youth teams.

Data scouting and player profiling, learned as a data scout at Rosenborg - he lectures on identifying player roles and on using data in coach recruitment.

Came to football from machine learning: soccer analytics research at Uppsala, applied modelling at Twelve Football, and ML engineering at Bosch before that.

Professor of performance analysis at Liverpool John Moores, whose doctoral work measured styles of play in elite soccer and what makes them effective.

Fitness coach with the Spanish federation, formerly at Barcelona: how to build an evidence-informed training week and turn GPS output into coaching decisions.

Lead data scientist at Twenty First Group, modelling how leagues compare and what transfer spend really buys - work picked up by ESPN and The Athletic.

Leeds United's first-team data analyst, previously a sports scientist at Seattle Sounders, where he merged GPS and recovery data into injury-risk models.

Ten years as head of strength and conditioning at Dinamo Zagreb, with an associate lectureship at the University of Zagreb alongside it.

Head of performance at Bayer Leverkusen by way of Cádiz, Watford and Spain's youth national teams; training load monitoring is his subject.

Clinical psychologist with an HDR in mental health psychology - the French qualification for leading research - and a sport psychology practice alongside it.

Dutch UEFA Pro head coach who has led first teams and run football departments: Kerala Blasters, Al Safa and Al Seeb, plus technical director at Ettifaq.

Elite-end fitness coaching - Manchester City, then Real Madrid - and the faculty voice on tying conditioning work to the tactical demands of a match week.

On UEFA's fitness advisory group and a senior lecturer at Manchester Met, she researches the physical demands of the women's game.

Benfica's lead sport scientist and a UEFA A fitness coach, specialising in the women's game while finishing a doctorate in human kinetics.

Leads physical preparation at Etihad Club in Amman across both first teams and both youth pathways, after a performance career built in Olympic sport.

Sport psychology forged in women's football at Newcastle United - the routines and language that hold up under selection pressure and a congested week.

Arsenal Women's sport scientist and S&C coach until 2025, leading return-to-play and reconditioning through seasons with no room in the calendar.

Youth head coach and tactical analyst: currently U16 at FK Radnički 1923, previously U21 head coach at Paide Linnameeskond in Estonia.

Set-piece analyst for Liverpool's first team, and Southampton's before that - dead-ball moments treated as a repeatable source of goals.

Opposition analysis at international level: video and data analyst to the Czech national team through the EURO 2024 cycle, and coach-analyst at Slavia Praha.

Built analysis departments across four countries and now heads academy performance analysis at NEOM, from the U13s up, with UEFA tournament work behind him.

Talent identification and recruitment strategy - former head of academy recruitment at Queen's Park, with a PhD from Stirling and UEFA's management certificate.

Premier League performance analyst at Spurs, who helped establish Brentford's analysis culture in the early years of the Thomas Frank era.

Spent a decade in Benfica's academy - assistant coach from the U14s to the U17s, then analyst in Benfica LAB - with a later spell coaching in China.

Now head of football operations at an agency, previously head of recruitment at Derby County: scouting judgement from both sides of the transfer table.

Coach and analyst in one job - technical coach and head of analysis at Wycombe, after leading the analysis function at FC Cincinnati in MLS.

Former Football League midfielder at Hull City and Scunthorpe who took a PhD in sports coaching and now researches how coaches themselves learn.

Seattle Sounders' head of physical therapy, where return-to-play calls and prehab routines sit exactly where medicine meets performance.

Performance nutritionist to the Lidl-Trek cycling team, bringing fuelling, recovery and body-composition practice from endurance sport back into football.