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Player intelligence
Explore player profiles, performance data and comparisons to build informed shortlists.
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Discover tomorrow's football talent.
Today.
Explore emerging players across European football. Compare performance, identify recruitment opportunities and plan your club's future with Next XI.
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494Clubs
42Competitions
47Seasons
30,808Player metrics
SCOUTING & RECRUITMENT INTELLIGENCE
From discovery to decision.
One platform to help clubs and scouts identify emerging talent, evaluate players and plan ahead.
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Recruitment workflow
Organise recruitment targets and follow prospects through your club's evaluation process.
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Squad planning
Visualise squad depth and consider how emerging players could fit into your plans.
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Built for: Clubs & academies Recruitment teams Independent scouts
One connected scouting and recruitment system.
Move from the first live observation to an evidence-backed recruitment decision without losing the context, ownership or history behind it.
Structured Scouting Reports
Assess technical, athletic, game-intelligence, mentality and potential attributes using a consistent club framework.
Live Match & Voice Notes
Watch multiple players, capture timestamped notes and retain voice observations with their written evidence.
Player Intelligence
Bring performance data, reports, consensus, video and development history together in one player view.
Assignments & Scout Management
Allocate players, priorities and deadlines while monitoring workload, progress and report completion.
Shortlists & Weighted Scoring
Compare candidates against position-specific criteria and clearly identify gaps in the available evidence.
Recruitment Workflow
Progress players through monitoring, priority, trial, decision and acquisition with accountable next actions.
Meetings & Decision Packs
Prepare agendas, record outcomes and create professional, private recruitment dossiers and meeting minutes.
Squad Planning & Analytics
Connect positional needs to live shortlists and measure movement, conversion, workload and stalled cases.
Secure Club Workspaces
Keep every club’s reports, notes, shortlists and decisions isolated to its authorised members.
From observation to decision.
Observe
Capture live match notes, voice evidence and structured assessments.
Evaluate
Build the player record and understand agreement, trends and evidence gaps.
Compare
Use role-based shortlists, squad needs and independent scout opinions.
Decide
Run recruitment meetings, assign actions and retain an auditable decision history.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Your club’s intelligence stays with your club.
Private records are permanently assigned to their originating workspace. Access is membership-based, direct links are checked server-side, and controlled external sharing can be revoked or allowed to expire.
- Club-isolated evidence
- Role-based access
- Auditable activity
- Secure expiring decision packs
Give your recruitment team one complete picture.
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TRANSFER INTELLIGENCE
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Latest moves & rumours
Fresh football transfer headlines, matched with Next XI player intelligence where available.
Celtic target rejects new deal - Monday's gossip
Celtic are on high alert for the January transfer window with summer target Balazs Toth resisting a new deal at Blackburn Rovers.
Euro Leagues
Mikey Moore is on loan at Cologne from Spurs - and loving life in the Bundesliga.
Free-scoring Brighton & Man Utd settle for a point
Paul Robinson joins to discuss Brighton and Lloyd making history, and Leeds v Man United.
Sage feels 'shame' at Palace thrashing with future in doubt
Crystal Palace manage Pierre Sage says he feels "shame" at the Eagles' performance during their 5-0 thrashing by Brighton and does not know if…
Sage feels 'shame' at Palace thrashing with future in doubt
Crystal Palace manage Pierre Sage says he feels "shame" at the Eagles' performance during their 5-0 thrashing by Brighton and does not know if…
Bournemouth pick up first league victory with win over Sunderland
Bournemouth beat Sunderland 2-0 at the Vitality Stadium to pick up their first league victory of the season and move out of the relegation…
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◎ RISING STARSTop Breakout Scores · age 23 and under
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⬡ RISING ACADEMIES
Clubs with the strongest usable scouting data
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⬡ CLUB INTELLIGENCE
Academies with the strongest usable dataset
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Aston Villa U21
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62Players
47With data
21,199Minutes
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Top Breakout—
Breakout 70+0
Avg age 21.2
Data quality 64/100
Stoke City U21
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65Players
42With data
15,477Minutes
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Top Next XI—
Top Breakout—
Breakout 70+0
Avg age 21.4
Data quality 56/100
Leeds United U21
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74Players
41With data
19,018Minutes
Avg Next XI—
Top Next XI—
Top Breakout—
Breakout 70+0
Avg age 21.1
Data quality 63/100
Norwich City U21
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77Players
41With data
17,929Minutes
Avg Next XI—
Top Next XI—
Top Breakout—
Breakout 70+0
Avg age 21.1
Data quality 60/100
DISCOVER
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Emerging players currently in the Next XI database.
CENTRAL MIDFIELD
lucas Barnes
Harrogate Town
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CENTRE FORWARD
Leon Chiwome
Colchester United
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CENTRE BACK
James Debayo
Leeds United U21
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DEFENSIVE MIDFIELD
Darren Robinson
Derby County U21
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CENTRE BACK
Tommy Dobson-Ventura
Eastleigh
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LEFT BACK
Sean Stewart
Norwich City U21
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LATEST INSIGHTS
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Analysis & scouting intelligence
Fresh analysis, scouting reports and data-led stories from Next XI.
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PLAYER WATCH
Five emerging players to keep on the radar
A sample Next XI view of young players whose development profiles could make them worth monitoring.
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U21FOCUS
ACADEMY INTELLIGENCE
Which academies are producing the strongest next generation?
A preview of how Next XI can combine player coverage, age profiles and performance data to compare academies.
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SCOUTING ANALYSIS
When scout opinion and performance data disagree
Human assessment and data do not always point in the same direction — and that can be where the interesting players are.
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RECRUITMENT INTELLIGENCE
Finding opportunities before they become obvious
Squad needs, contract context and emerging performance can help turn a long player list into a clearer recruitment picture.
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SCOUT SMARTER
Find the player you're looking for.
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MORE THAN STATS
Context for the
Context for the
next generation.
Traditional football databases tell you what happened. Next XI is being built to make emerging talent easier to discover, analyse and track.
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Discover
Find emerging players before everyone knows their names.
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Analyse
Put performance into age, position and competition context.
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Develop
Track the progression of the next generation over time.
The next name is already out there.
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