One in 200 children who sign for an Academy at age 9 will make it to professional football [Source: Guardian, 2015]. What do these statistics tell us? For me, ...

So many talented players are being given false hope of becoming a professional football player. Find out why only 0,012% of them succeed in 21st century.

10 янв. 2024 г. · Outside Europe, the clubs with the most profitable academies are Brazil's Flamengo (thirteenth) and Argentina's River Plate (fourteenth).

Of the 1.5 million boys who play organized youth football (soccer) in England, only ~180 will be signed professionally by a Premier League club, a success rate ...

27 июн. 2024 г. · Just four per cent of talented teen academy prospects make it to the top tier of professional football, a new study has shown.

... League club, a success rate of 0.012% (Calvin, 2017). In 2011, 13,612 boys made up the professional football academy system in England. Despite this, 50% of ...

7 янв. 2022 г. · Ninety-seven per cent of the former elite academy players now aged 21 to 26 years old failed to make a single Premier League appearance, official statistics ...

15 сент. 2022 г. · Recent data on former elite academy players has shown that 97% did not go on to play Premier League football. Vast numbers of boys are released ...

21 авг. 2023 г. · This approach allows players to progress from academy to first team in a strategic and calculated way, while also increasing the rate of homegrown players.

22 окт. 2024 г. · Only 53 (10%) of players were successful in obtaining a professional contract, with 68% of players who became professional being recruited at 12 ...