Pen pics of Brighton's coaching, science, medicine and analytics staff.
Pen pics of Brighton's coaching, science, medicine and analytics staff.
Seven staff have exited Brighton along with manager Roberto de Zerbi.
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.
Former Manchester United Head of Strength and Conditioning Gary Walker is returning to the UK after five years to become Head of Performance at Brighton.
Lincoln City’s Amy Kay has joined Brighton as their new Foundation Phase Lead. The former Lincoln City Women’s captain has coached full-time with the Imps Academy since 2018 and has been their Pre-Academy and Schoolboy Phase Lead Coach since January 2023.
Dominic May has left Arsenal after eight years to become First-Team Physical Performance Coach at Brighton.
SAM JEWELL has accepted a senior recruitment role at Chelsea and been placed on gardening leave by Brighton. Jewell, who is the son of former Wigan manager Paul Jewell, is expected to start work with Chelsea in November.
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.
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.
HEAD of Medical and Performance Adam Brett has left Brighton after a decade as the club revamps the department. Doctor Vicann During has also exited after less than a year.
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.
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.
CLUB and Federation experts will give insights into latest trends and best practice at our Youth Development Webinar on June 6th.
ON October 9&10, Training Ground Guru is holding its biggest and best event, with its biggest and best line-up of speakers!
BRIGHTON Technical Director David Weir has told BBC Radio 5 Live the secrets of his side's recent success.
VICANN DURING has taken over from long-standing club doctor Stephen Lewis at Brighton. Lewis, who had been with the Seagulls for eight-and-a-half years, left in January to take up the same role with Fulham.
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.
SAM JEWELL has been appointed Head of Recruitment at Brighton following Paul Winstanley’s move to Chelsea.
OUR Scouting and Recruitment Webinar is back for a second edition and again provides industry insights from leading experts in the game.
EVAN FERGUSON and Andy Moran both joined Brighton's Academy at the age of 16 from clubs in the League of Ireland. However, the way they were developed after that was completely different, as former Brighton Academy Manager John Morling tells TGG.
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.
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.
MIKE CAVE is leaving Fulham after almost nine years to become the Assistant Technical Director at Brighton.
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.
BRIGHTON have confirmed Roberto De Zerbi’s backroom staff after a trio of assistants were granted work permits.
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.
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.
IAN BUCKMAN has been promoted to Academy Manager by Brighton, replacing John Morling.
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.
DAVID WEIR has been appointed as Brighton’s new Technical Director, having held the job on an interim basis since Dan Ashworth resigned in February.
BRIGHTON are advertising for a new Academy Manager following the exit of John Morling after almost a decade.
HOW do you ensure each individual develops within your team environment? This is a big focus for clubs - and for this webinar.
PETE BULMER has left Blackburn Rovers after two-and-a-half years to become Senior Scouting Manager responsible for centre backs at Brighton.
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.
DAN ASHWORTH has resigned as Technical Director at Brighton and is now expected to take up the same position with Newcastle United.
GARY DICKER has been appointed as Brighton’s Under-18s coach after retiring as an over-aged player with the U23s.
FORMER Scotland international David Weir has been promoted from Pathway Development Manager to the new role of Assistant Technical Director by Brighton.
JACK STERN has joined Brighton as their new Assistant Goalkeeping Coach. He replaces Casper Ankergren, who left the Seagulls after 11 years as player and coach in October to become Head of Goalkeeping at Danish side Brondby.
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.
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.
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.
HUW JENNINGS and Dan Ashworth have received the 2021 Eamonn Dolan Award for their outstanding contribution to youth development.
BRIGHTON have announced a "strategic partnership" with Scottish Premiership outfit Hibernian that will see the two clubs sharing knowledge, playing and training opportunities, and friendly matches for their different age groups.
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.
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.
BRIGHTON Under-23s coach Simon Rusk has left the club after nine years to become manager of ambitious Conference Premier side Stockport County.
BRIGHTON Technical Director Dan Ashworth explains what the role involves and why he believes it’s so important.
BRIGHTON Technical Director Dan Ashworth says the club are fielding a 36-year-old in their Under-23s in an attempt to create a ‘hybrid’ of the old reserve team system.
OUR Big Data event, which examines how top teams are using data science, is back for a second year.
BRIGHTON are the first club to make wellbeing an explicit part of their performance department, with staff dedicated to promoting health and happiness. The club's Senior Performance Psychologist, Sarah Murray, explains more.
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.
JAMES BELL, UK Sport’s Head of Culture Development and Mental Health, is to lead a new Performance Psychology and Wellbeing department at Brighton.
TGG will be exploring Modern Leadership at our next live event, at Emirates Old Trafford on Thursday April 23rd.
JOSHUA HOOK has been promoted to the new position of Physical Performance Manager by Brighton.
BRIGHTON’S Dan Ashworth says clubs need Technical Directors in order to ensure they are travelling in the right direction over the medium to long term.
BRIGHTON’S lead first team strength and conditioning coach Tom Barnden has left the club after seven years to join Manchester City.
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.
ANDREW CROFTS has been appointed to an innovative Under-23 player-coach role by Brighton.
ASSISTANT manager Paul Trollope and first team coach Paul Nevin have been sacked along with Chris Hughton at Brighton.
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.
PREMIER LEAGUE footballers Tom Heaton and Ben Mee were among the attendees at TGG's second Cohesive Coaching event in Manchester.
BRIGHTON first-team coach Paul Nevin says he is delighted to be invited into the “inner sanctum” of the England team as part of a BAME placement set up by the Football Association.
BRIGHTON Chief Executive Paul Barber says the appointment of Technical Director Dan Ashworth will enable the club to reach the “next level”.
FOLLOWING the success of our first Cohesive Coaching event in June, we decided to put on a sequel.
DOZENS of clubs use GPS data. But how exactly is it gathered? And, most importantly of all, how does it impact a manager's decision-making? Will Abbott, Head of Academy Sports Science and S&C at Brighton, told us more.
Will Abbott, Head of Academy Strength and Conditioning at Brighton, gives us the lowdown on pre-season at the Premier League club.
JOHN BARNES does not believe Chris Hughton’s success at Brighton will help the plight of black managers, because he will be “elevated out of blackness”.