Pen pics of Southampton's coaching, science, medicine and analytics staff.
Pen pics of Southampton's coaching, science, medicine and analytics staff.
Teamworks will be the Headline Sponsor of this year's TGG Live Conference at St George's Park. Our annual two-day event is returning on September 9 & 10 to shine a light on the best of the backroom in football and beyond.
Performance Director Mark Bitcon says Southampton have a 'start-up culture' under owners Sport Republic, which is why they are early adopters of Sportlight, which delivers hyper-accurate tracking and performance insights.
Natasha Patel is Assistant Academy Director at Southampton and one of the most experienced women working in men's professional football. In Episode #64 of the TGG Podcast, in association with Hudl, she outlined her journey in football, how analysis has evolved and her experiences on either side of the Atlantic.
MANCHESTER UNITED have made an official approach to Southampton for their Director of Football Jason Wilcox. The Old Trafford club want to make Wilcox their Technical Director and have offered to pay Saints the equivalent of a full year of his salary.
IN our Set Piece Masterclass, former Newcastle United First Team Analyst Billy Coulston will help to improve your understanding, preparation and delivery of Set Pieces.
SOUTHAMPTON have undertaken a huge restructure and restaffing of their Category One Academy aimed at building a “world-leading development programme for players and staff.”
SOUTHAMPTON will wait until the summer to appoint a new Set Piece Coach to replace Andreas Georgson, TGG understands.
HEAD of Tactical Analysis Scott Waters has left Southampton after 12 years and more than 500 competitive matches with the club.
R is a statistics-specific programming language that is excellent for data cleaning, manipulation and visualisations. In our R Masterclass, on Tuesday February 13th, Harsh Krishna will introduce you to R and RStudio (the interface for writing R code) and explain how they can be used with football event data.
LEE SKYRME has left Southampton after almost three years as the club abandon the model of Game Coach and Individual Development Coach introduced by Matt Crocker.
COLIN CALDERWOOD has been appointed First-Team Coach at Southampton following two-and-a-half years as Assistant Manager at Northampton Town.
ChatGPT and other Large Language models are changing how we write and read texts. In this Masterclass, Professor David Sumpter explains how to make the most of the new technology when writing scouting reports.
OUR Big Data Webinar is now available on-demand and brings you insights from leading practitioners in football and beyond.
STAFF from more than 100 clubs and federations from around the world - in football and beyond - were among those to gather in Manchester last week for two days of learning and networking at TGG Live.
TEAM Operations and Communications specialists Kairos will showcase their new product Kairos TV at TGG Live in Manchester on October 9th and 10th.
STAFF from dozens of leading clubs and federations will be attending TGG Live in Manchester on October 9th and 10th. This event, which is being held in the iconic Beetham Tower, will offer unparalleled opportunities to learn and network with some of the brightest minds in football and beyond.
SOUTHAMPTON have appointed new Under-21 and U18 coaches as part of a major revamp of roles in their Academy.
FORMER Arsenal set piece coach Andreas Georgson has joined Southampton in the same role.
SOUTHAMPTON have scrapped their B Team model following the exit of Dave Horseman to become Head Coach of Forest Green Rovers.
WE are delighted to reveal the agenda for our industry-leading TGG Live Conference in Manchester on October 9th and 10th. This two-day event at the iconic Beetham Tower in central Manchester will shine a light on the best of the backroom.
ANDY GOLDIE has been appointed Academy Director at Southampton in a move that reunites him with manager Russell Martin.
SOUTHAMPTON Head of Technical Development Iain Brunnschweiler has left the club after almost six years. His exit has cast doubt on the future of the club's unique Learning Lab.
MARK BITCON has been appointed Director of Performance at Southampton as the club begin their behind-the-scenes rebuild.
JOE FERRELLY îs leaving Everton after four years to become Head of Data and Research for Sport Republic, working for Southampton and Goztepe in Turkey.
SOUTHAMPTON Head of Sport Science and first-team fitness coach Alek Gross is leaving the club after a decade following their relegation from the Premier League.
MARK JARVIS is leaving his role as Southampton Director of Performance Support as owners Sport Republic continue their clean sweep behind the scenes. Jarvis was hired from the English Institute of Sport in August 2018 as strategic lead for their performance and medical department across men's, women's and Academy.
SAM STANTON is being promoted to replace Tom Stockwell as Head of Scouting Operations at Southampton. Stockwell is leaving the club after almost 12 years to join Nottingham Forest.
CLUB and Federation experts will give insights into latest trends and best practice at our Youth Development Webinar on June 6th.
SOUTHAMPTON Academy Director Matt Hale is leaving the club at the end of the season after a decade’s service.
SOUTHAMPTON B are “in the middle of something really really powerful” after being crowned Premier League 2 Division 2 champions, according to coach Dave Horseman.
ON October 9&10, Training Ground Guru is holding its biggest and best event, with its biggest and best line-up of speakers!
MATT CROCKER has been appointed as the new Sporting Director of US Soccer after three-and-a-half years as Southampton’s Director of Football Operations. He will be officially unveiled tomorrow.
IN October we'll be holding our biggest ever event. The TGG Live Conference, at the iconic Beetham Tower in central Manchester, spans two days and will be a window into the world of high performance in professional football, featuring dozens of expert speakers from leading clubs and federations.
OUR Scouting and Recruitment Webinar is back for a second edition and again provides industry insights from leading experts in the game.
JASON WILCOX will leave Manchester City after more than a decade in the summer to become Director of Football at Southampton.
NATASHA PATEL has returned to Southampton as Assistant Academy Director after more than three years with New York Red Bulls in the MLS.
MATT CROCKER is to leave his position as Director of Football Operations at Southampton at the end of the season.
LEARN how xG - the most important machine learning model in football - works during our follow-along Masterclass with Professor David Sumpter on Tuesday January 24th.
RASMUS ANKERSEN has said that clubs and fans are wrong to discount managers who have failed - and that he actually favours those who have. There's plenty of evidence from outside football that backs him up, too.
NATHAN JONES has said that Southampton’s strategy of “developing” players rather than getting them in “ready-made” is what attracted him to become their new manager.
TGG's Big Data event is back for its fourth edition and will once again give top insights into how leading football clubs and federations are using data science.
EDD WEBSTER is a data scientist for LEGO who previously worked for Manchester City and West Ham. On October 25th, he will be hosting an SQL Masterclass for TGG. Here is some background on SQL and what the Masterclass will involve.
COACHES from the four home nations as well as from Belgium, Holland, Germany, Portugal and the United States came together at TGG’s Youth Development Conference for a day of learning and sharing ideas.
SOUTHAMPTON have hired Pete Haynes from Cheltenham Town in a revamp of their coaching set-up at Under-18 level. The 28-year-old, who was Senior Professional Development Phase Coach at Cheltenham, has been appointed U18s Individual Coach by the Premier League side.
DATA is valuable and SQL makes navigating it a lot easier. Our SQL for Data Analysis Masterclass will provide an introduction to accessing and manipulating datasets in a football context.
ALEX CLAPHAM has left his role as Southampton set-piece coach after three months due to personal reasons.
ASSISTANT Academy Director Edd Vahid is leaving Southampton after eight seasons to join the Premier League.
JOE SHIELDS has left Manchester City after nine years to become Head of Senior Recruitment at Southampton.
RALPH HASSENHUTTL has finalised his backroom staff for the coming season, with Alex Clapham joining from Notts County as set piece coach and Carl Martin moving up from the Under-18s to become an in-possession specialist.
ON September 20th, TGG will be holding its first in-person event for three years. The Youth Development Conference will feature top speakers giving insights into the latest innovations and best practice in Academies - from both England and beyond.
RUBEN SELLES has been appointed First Team Lead Coach at Southampton after long-serving trio Kelvin Davis, Dave Watson and Craig Fleming were sacked by the club.
IN April, Southampton announced that they were launching a “unique” Learning Lab that would embed a “research culture focused on modern Ecological Approaches” in their club and Academy. TGG decided to find out more by welcoming two members of the Learning Lab Board onto our podcast.
SOUTHAMPTON Head of Technical Development Iain Brunnschweiler has revealed that the club use a former SAS solider to help train their young players to become elite.
HOW do you ensure each individual develops within your team environment? This is a big focus for clubs - and for this webinar.
SOUTHAMPTON have taken the highly unusual move of loaning their B team goalkeeper coach Ryan Flood to Dundee United for the remainder of the season.
SOUTHAMPTON have launched a “unique” Learning Lab that will embed a “research culture focused on modern ecological approaches” in both their club and Academy.
OUR Python Match Analysis Masterclass is a follow-along interactive session that takes you through the match analysis process, from processing a real match JSON file through to data visualisation and communication.
Our Power BI Masterclass, delivered by Southampton FC Performance Data Analyst Harriet Eastham, helps you to connect multiple data sources to generate interactive insights.
OUR Scouting and Recruitment webinar features insights from leading clubs and professionals.
IAIN BRUNNSCHWEILER is to head up a ‘pioneering’ new Technical Development Department that Southampton hope will support their intention to be "the most productive Academy in the country on a consistent basis.”
FORMER Brentford Co-Director of Football Rasmus Ankersen is one of the men behind Sport Republic’s takeover of Southampton.
OUR Youth Development event, which delivered insights from leading Academies, is now available on-demand.
TGG's Big Data 2021 Webinar, shedding light on how top individuals and organisations are using data science in football, is now available on-demand.
SOUTHAMPTON Director of Football Matt Crocker has explained why the club have introduced a system of Game Coach and Individual Development Coach, rather than the traditional Head Coach and assistant model.
OUR Python Masterclass, which gives an introduction to the football capabilities of one of the world's most popular programming languages, is now available on-demand.
OLLY LANCASHIRE has returned to Southampton as a player and mentor for their B team. The 32-year-old centre-back, who has played more than 300 senior games, made 17 appearances for Saints at the start of his career.
OUR Individual Development Coaching Webinar, which gave in-depth insights into the approach of top clubs and federations in this crucial area of the game, is now available to watch on-demand.
FORMER England in-possession coach Mikey Harris has been appointed to the new position of Under-18s individual coach by Southampton.
SOUTHAMPTON have hired Lee Skyrme from the Football Association to become their B team Individual Player Coach.
RECOVERY is more important now than ever, because unprecedented fixture congestion is leaving so little time between matches. In this event, expert practitioners from elite clubs will be telling you how they monitor recovery and about the methods and tools they use to promote it.
A PLAYER'S position only tells us so much about them - as a comparison of Roberto Firmino and Robert Lewandowski shows. Paul Power of Stats Perform explains how we can carry out some more sophisticated analysis of a player.
RADHI JAIDI has left Southampton after more than a decade to become assistant manager at Belgian side Cercle Brugge.
TELESTRATION elevates the storytelling power of video, which is why TGG have teamed up with Tracab to bring you a Coach Paint Masterclass delivered by Benfica U23 assistant manager João Nuno Fonseca.
SAM STANTON, who was Head of Analysis at Bristol City for seven years, has joined the new Player Insights team at Southampton.
SOUTHAMPTON'S Lead Data Scientist, Alex Kleyn, explains how the club use data to ensure the new B team is tactically aligned with Ralph Hasenhuttl’s first team.
STEVE SPARKS has left Southampton after a decade to become first-team physio at Manchester City.
SOUTHAMPTON Director of Football Operations Matt Crocker says the club have ‘moved away’ from the loans system and will rarely send young players to other clubs.
OUR Big Data event, which examines how top teams are using data science, is back for a second year.
MO GIMPEL, one of the longest-serving medical practitioners in the Premier League, has left Southampton after 23 years.
ENGLAND rugby coach Eddie Jones and England Women’s goalkeeper Karen Bardsley were among the superb speakers at TGG’s The Future Game webinar on Wednesday.
ENGLAND rugby coach Eddie Jones will be among the speakers at an online event exploring the future of elite sport post pandemic and beyond.
TGG will be exploring Modern Leadership at our next live event, at Emirates Old Trafford on Thursday April 23rd.
ROSS WILSON, Southampton’s Director of Football Operations, has left the club to become Rangers’ new Sporting Director.
NATASHA PATEL, Southampton’s Head of Performance Analysis, has left the club after eight years to join the New York Red Bulls.
DATA SCIENCE is the growth area in football, yet also one of the least understood. At this special event, we will be finding out what the top Premier League and international teams are doing, from the experts who are doing it.
SOUTHAMPTON manager Ralph Hassenhuttl has lost the only member of staff he brought with him to the club in December 2018.
ASTON VILLA Under-18 coach David Hughes is leaving the club to become Southampton’s first Head of Academy Player Development.
SOUTHAMPTON have made a number of changes to their coaching and performance teams ahead of Ralph Hasenhüttl’s first full season in charge of the club.
SOUTHAMPTON are poised to announce a new Head of Player Development after splitting the traditional Head of Coaching role in two as part of an Academy revamp.
KRIS VAN DER HAEGEN, the Director of Coach Education for the Belgian Football Association, will head a special TGG conference on youth development in June.
A THREE-YEAR Southampton research project has found that sudden spikes in training load dramatically increase injury risk - but that building load over a longer period protects against this.
LES REED’S final legacy to Southampton was a complete revamp of their performance department focusing on “innovation and collaboration”.
PREMIER LEAGUE footballers Tom Heaton and Ben Mee were among the attendees at TGG's second Cohesive Coaching event in Manchester.
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Martin Hunter has followed Vice Chairman Les Reed through the exit door at Southampton.
LES REED, Southampton's most senior football figure, has been sacked after eight years at the club.
FOLLOWING the success of our first Cohesive Coaching event in June, we decided to put on a sequel.
HOW did a 27-year-old Englishman end up working with Denmark at the World Cup - as well as with Malmo in Sweden? Fitness coach Ben Rosen explained all - as well as giving the lowdown on stars including Christian Eriksen.
THIS is the seventh job of Mark Hughes' managerial career - and the seventh time he's appointed the same assistants. Is a fear of the unfamiliar holding him back?
SOUTHAMPTON have lost the lowest number of days to injury so far this season, while Watford have experienced the most.
SOUTHAMPTON have brought in an expert to try and discover why their players are losing so many days to hamstring injuries.
SOUTHAMPTON have announced the death of their chief scout, Bill Green, at the age of 66.
SOUTHAMPTON first team data scientist Laura Bowen gives a fascinating insight into her role during pre-season - saying her purpose is to give players 'no place to hide'.
MANY players are back at their training grounds this week. The first thing they do is testing. But what exactly does it involve?
WEST BROM won the Premier League fitness title in 2016/17, with the lowest number of significant injuries and days lost to injury.
JONATHAN WOODHOUSE (above), Southampton academy data scientist, tells us why a work placement was so important for him and gives advice to current students.
US SOCCER's new director of high performance told TGG about his journey from sports science graduate to one of the key jobs in football.