Academy Productivity Rankings 2016/17: Manchester United top first edition of TGG Rankings

When Mark Crane began to investigate the best Academy to send his son to, he struggled to find out which category each was in, let alone how successful it had been.

“A young player and their parents have little objective basis on which to judge whether it’s in their interests to join a club’s Academy,” he said.

When you consider that only 0.5% of eight-year-olds at Academies make it into professional football at all, it’s easy to understand why kids and their parents want as much information as possible before entering the system.