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Coaching &
development

From individual player progression to holistic, organization-wide assessment, turn your coaching and talent development strategy into consistent, repeatable success.

FIND YOUR FORMULA FOR SUCCESS

Leagues and teams deal with vast, disconnected data about coach and player development, potential, training, game performance and organizational depth.

Kitman Labs provides the infrastructure and insights that unify data sets, systemize your talent development pipeline and optimize coaching and talent strategies that lead to repeatable success over time.

Core Capabilities

Seen & Heard

SBJ Live

Integrating Data and Philosophy from Academy to First Team

Ian Buckman, Academy Manager at Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., highlights the club's integrated approach to player development, aligning the academy's philosophy with the first teams. The club effectively tracks player progress by sharing profiles and data between coaching and recruitment. Their Football Intelligence Platform ensures coaching consistency and evidence-based player development, reinforcing the club's commitment to data-driven practices.

ADU

Strategic Technology Adoption for Holistic Student-Athlete Care

Mark Coberley, Associate Athletics Director for Sports Medicine at Iowa State University, emphasizes the importance of a question-first approach when adopting new technology in athletic program development. He argues against the common mistake of purchasing technology without a clear purpose. Instead, he advocates for identifying key questions that need answers before choosing the appropriate technology.

Sky Sports

Impact of Growing Fixture Schedule and Congestion on Injury - or Not

As footballers face an increasing number of fixtures across club and international competitions, concerns about rising injury levels are growing. Stephen Smith, CEO of Kitman Labs, addresses the potential impact of fixture congestion on player injuries on SkyNews, emphasizing that it's not just about the number of games but also how teams train, prepare for congestion, and manage player rotation. While some speculate that more games might increase risks, Stephen stresses the importance of data-driven analysis.

Michigan State University

Unified Data Platforms, Streamline Workflows

On the Game Changer Podcast, Renee Kleszczynski from Michigan State University, discusses consolidating the efforts of performance coaches, athletic trainers, and strength coaches by integrating their data in one unified platform. This allows them to focus solely on their roles without additional tasks. This allows for the maintenance of accurate records and enables advanced capabilities and insights, which ultimately enhances their contributions and the overall performance management of athletes.

University of Georgia

Mobilizing Data for Different Users

On the Game Changer podcast, Joshua Rucci from the University of Georgia, shares insights about using flexible, configurable reporting to mobilize data and support various sports and their unique user needs. He explains how coaches can track metrics such as daily jump performance and compare them to historical data. Additionally, he implemented customizable, alarmed dashboards using a simple color-coded system based on rolling averages, allowing coaches to identify areas needing attention quickly.

Sky Sports

Inside Tactics: The technology that helped Ipswich reach the Premier League

Sky News and Sam Blitz visited the Ipswich Town Training Grounds to interview Director of Performance Andrew Rolls and Kitman Labs Founder & CEO Stephen Smith. They discussed the club's multifaceted partnership with the high-performance technology company and its role in its successful bid for promotion to the Premier League.

Leaders Performance Institute

Why Player Pathway is critical today?

Watch part one of the Leaders Performance Institute Podcast Series, where industry leaders discuss establishing productive talent development pipelines, creating player pathways, and leveraging data and analytics to cultivate talent for the home team and the commercial market.

Leaders Performance Institute

Aarhus Positioning on Talent Development Processes

Leaders Performance Institute

Priorities for teams starting out

Watch part two of the Leaders Performance Institute Podcast Series, where industry leaders explore the transformative growth of women’s football, its economic impact and the need for expanded research to help inform player development, player welfare and performance.

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This partnership represents a significant development in how clubs and the Premier League can use data to support elite player development and personal growth across all club academies.

We have been able to combine data sets from multiple disciplines and data streams to calculate, measure and evaluate impact for the purpose of player development. Furthermore, the platform has supported key stakeholders from across the ecology of the club to reason, reflect and strategise as a consequence of these data-led insights.

Tony Scholes

Chief Football Officer

Tom Hounsell

Academy Insights Manager, PDP Coach

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