FOCUS SBS and Comparisonator will combine recruitment analytics with football leadership and strategy expertise to develop joint analyses through FOCUS Intelligence Hub, with dedicated attention to women’s football.
Dan Ashworth explains how sport leaders turn strategic vision into clear expectations, supported decisions, and a culture that holds under pressure.
FOCUS Sports Business School is partnering with SquadAssist to examine one of football’s most persistent management challenges: how clubs can make better recruitment decisions when information is incomplete, outcomes are uncertain and mistakes carry consequences well beyond the transfer fee.
As football organisations become more specialised, greater capability can also create greater fragmentation. Drawing on Vincent Mannaert’s executive experience, this framework examines four organisational disciplines that help hold strategy together: culture, people and structure, dynamic stability, and the fan ecosystem.
A club can identify a good player and still make a poor recruitment decision. The reason may sit upstream: in the sporting, financial and organisational decisions that define what the club is recruiting for.
A career after professional football requires preparation. We look at how players can use their experience, build new capabilities and prepare for leadership roles in football.
Anna Edwards (Elite Performance Partners) and Claire Bloomfield (World Sevens Football) conversation in the Women's Football Strategy Forum, focusing on the critical need for specialized governance, the distinction between figurehead and operational leadership, and the cultural shifts required to sustain the sport's commercial trajectory.
This article examines how Club Brugge and FC Dallas balance immediate sporting demands with long-term financial sustainability through disciplined, club-driven squad building. It explores Devy’s structured squad segmentation and 24–36 month Asset Realization Window, alongside André’s collaborative transfer process and his insights into the human side of player adaptation.
Transfer windows represent one of the clearest stress tests of organizational quality in football. Drawing on FIFA and CIES data, this article examines how leadership alignment, squad stability, recruitment processes, and decision-making structures influence transfer outcomes and reveal the health of the system behind them.
Results fluctuate in football. Strong leaders protect culture, decision-making and long-term direction without burning out their people. Learn how football organisations sustain performance under pressure.
