BARRY LEWTAS has been promoted to Under-23 boss at Liverpool, while Marc Bridge-Wilkinson steps up to take charge of the U18s.

LEICESTER CITY Under-18 coach Trevor Peake, who is retiring after 17 years at the club, looks back on his four decades in professional football.

DR PERRY WALTERS says new Development Coach roles are prescient, because they chime with the latest findings from developmental neuroscience.

THE Premier League will begin regulating pre-Academy football for the first time from next season, but there will be no minimum age at which players can train with clubs.

THE Premier League has announced that its games programme from Under-9s to U23s is being cancelled for this season, meaning there will be no conclusion to Premier League 2 or the U18 Premier League.

BAYERN MUNICH have announced they are scraping their Under-9 and U10 teams, meaning entry level to their Academy will be at U11s from the summer of 2022.

FOR the fifth consecutive season, Chelsea have topped Youth Hawk's table for call-ups to England youth sides. However, for the first time, they share top billing with another team.

BENFICA Technical Director Pedro Marques explains the four pillars of their famed youth Academy.

NEWCASTLE UNITED have become the first Premier League club to put their staff on furlough.

BURNLEY, Crystal Palace and Leeds United will almost certainly have to wait another season to be elevated to Category 1 status, as all audits have been delayed indefinitely as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

CRYSTAL PALACE’S plans to develop their Academy into a Category 1 site have been supported by Bromley Council’s planning committee.

BARNET have put all their staff on notice of redundancy following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.