Brighton

English

Jason Ayto

Sporting Director

Appointed in September 2025 and oversees “all footballing areas of the club”, including player recruitment, performance and medical, for men’s, women’s teams and Academies. Had previously worked for Arsenal for more than a decade, becoming their Assistant Sporting Director. 

English

Mike Cave

Technical Director

Promoted from Assistant Technical Director to Technical Director in September 2025. Originally hired three years earlier from Fulham, where he had worked for almost nine years, eventually becoming their Academy Director.

English

Paul Mullen

Chief Operating Officer

Appointed in March 2015 and has responsibility for ‘football administration’, involving the day-to-day running of the Elite Performance Centre, education, welfare player services, women’s football, kit and equipment. Promoted from Head of Football Administration in August 2019.

German

Fabian Hurzeler

Head Coach

Premier League’s youngest ever full-time manager when he took the job aged 31. Arrived at the Amex after a successful spell in charge of German club St Pauli, guiding the club from near the bottom of Bundesliga 2 to division winners in 2024. Initially joined St Pauli in 2020 as Assistant and was appointed Head Coach in December 2022 on an interim basis, before taking over permanently later that month. Came through the youth ranks with Bayern Munich, representing their second team, as well as having stints with 1899 Hoffenheim II and FC Pippensreid.

German

Jonas Scheuermann

Assistant

Arrived with Hurzeler in July 2024, having previously been assistant at Augsburg since 2017. Before that was manager of German lower-league side SV Waldeck-Obermenzing.

German

Daniel Niedzkowski

Assistant

Previously led provision of the Pro Licence for the German FA (DFB) – which is how he knows Hurzeler (who was one of his students). Prior to joining DFB in 2016 he was Head Coach of Germany’s U21s and Assistant at Bayer Leverkusen. 

English

Andrew Crofts

First-Team Coach

Re-joined club in July 2019 as an over-aged U23 player. Then became U21s Head Coach and was interim first-team manager when Graham Potter left for Chelsea (although he didn’t actually take charge of a game). Stayed on staff under De Zerbi and is a “conduit” between U21s and first team.

Belgian

Yannick Euvrard

Set Piece Coach

Arrived in the summer of 2025 after two seasons doing the same job for Belgian top flight club Anderlecht as part of the club’s data analysis and performance team. He had a short playing career as a right-back with Cercle Brugge, Waregem, Leuven and Roeselare and started his coaching career by joining the Belgian Football Association as a Senior Performance and Data Analyst in January 2019. 

Dutch

Jelle ten Rouwelaar

Goalkeeping Coach

Joined in July 2025 after working for half a season under Ruud van Nistelrooy at Leicester as Assistant Manager and Goalkeeping Coach. Spent two seasons at Burnley and then had short spells at both Ajax and Manchester United before joining the Foxes. Was also with Anderlecht and NAC Breda, where he worked with now Brighton goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen. Made nearly 500 senior appearances as a goalkeeper – nearly all of them for clubs in the Netherlands.

German

Max Lesser

Tactical Analyst

Was an analyst at Stuttgart for three years before a brief three-month spell as Head of Match Analysis at Ajax from July to September 2023. Joined Brighton with Hurzeler in July 2024.

English

Gary Walker

Head of Performance

Worked for Manchester United for 11 years, latterly as Head of Strength and Conditioning, before moving to the United States as Director of Sports Performance for FC Cincinnati in March 2019. Joined Brighton in summer of 2024. Took on responsibility for a unified performance and medical department after departure of Florian Pfab in December 2025.

English

Joshua Hook

Physical Performance Manager

Joined as an inter in July 2010. Made permanent a year later and worked for the Academy until being promoted to the first team in November 2015. Appointed to this new role in September 2019.

New Zealand

Mike Anthony

Head of Player Development and High Performance

English

Dominic May

Physical Performance Coach

Worked for Arsenal’s Academy for eight years (latterly with the U21s) before joining Brighton in April 2024.

Venezuelan

Paola Rodríguez-Giustiniani

Lead Performance Nutritionist

Worked for Hibernian for five years before joining the Seagulls in 2022.

English

Sophie Grimson

Performance Data Scientist

Joined club on a PhD Studentship in 2019 and appointed to current role in 2022.

English

Tim Buck

Doctor

Full-time role is as a GP and has worked for Brighton on a part-time basis since June 2008.

Scottish

Fraser Young

Physio Manager

Was First Team Physio for Brighton for a short spell in 2015 and returned in 2020 as Physio Manager. Has also worked for Blackburn, West Ham, Rangers and more.

Spanish

Esteban Perez

First Team Physiotherapist

Joined Brighton in the summer of 2025 from Schalke, where he was First Team Physiotherapist last season. Had the same role for Watford from 2022 to 2024, while before that he had a season as First Team Head Physiotherapist at Hamilton Academical. Started his football coaching career with Cadiz as Under-23 Rehabilitation Coach/Physiotherapist.

Irish

Jack O'Doherty

Physio

Joined from Nottingham Forest as an Academy physio in 2017. Promoted to first-team duties in July 2021.

English

Mark Vine

Soft Tissue Therapist

Worked at Crystal Palace from August 2017 until leaving in January 2024 to join Brighton. 

English

Mark Kehoe

Osteopath

Started with the club as a soft tissue specialist in 2015 and appointed osteopath four years later.

English

Eoin Bradford

Performance Analysis Manager

With Derby for five years before joining Brighton in July 2015.

English

Sam Hudson

Coach-Analyst

Lead performance analyst in the Academy for almost three years before being promoted to the first team in November 2018. Took on the new role of coach-analyst following Jordan Tribe’s move to Newcastle at the start of 2023/24.

English

Jake Sheard

Performance Analyst

Joined from Hearts in Scotland in September 2023.

English

Jack Pugh

Performance Analyst

Joined the club in August 2015 from West Brom. Initially worked with the Academy before being promoted to first-team duties in August 2022.

English

Calum Johnson

Performance Analyst

Worked for Tottenham for six years before joining Brighton in July 2023.