The opportunity to work with the club’s recruitment teams and create customisations around their first team and academy processes has been a great experience and helped further enhance the Scout Hub platform. Feedback from those at the club has been overwhelmingly positive:

“Scout Hub is a very easy and fast platform to use,” says Davide Vagnati, Sporting Director at Torino Football Club. “The Scout Mission team’s ability to adapt the platform to our requests, to develop our scouting processes, has been excellent.”

Key to the platform’s success at the club, has been its ease of use for scouts to instantly get to grips with it, as well as the flexibility to tailor player reporting to the club’s own format. Speaking with Simone Narducci, an international scout at Torino, another important element was providing the club with a platform that could be used by both the academy and first team, reducing barriers and silos in the club’s player reporting processes.

“I appreciated Scout Mission’s commitment to adapt the platform to our needs by creating our own database that is able to merge reports from both the first team and academy,” says Simone Narducci. “It’s a very complete and fast platform, for both the scouts writing reports and the admin. I find it simple but at the same time very practical.”

We look forward to continuing to work together and further enhancing Scout Hub to become a vital tool for any club’s recruitment department.

If your club could benefit from the platform, please get in touch at scoutmission.com and see how Scout Mission can help.

About Scout Mission

Scout Mission is a UK startup reshaping the way football clubs and academies manage their talent ID and recruitment processes. With products like Scout Hub and the newly launched Academy Trialist Hub, the company is addressing the core challenges faced by football recruitment departments at both first team and academy level. For more details, visit scoutmission.com

“Following a reorganisation of the scouting cell’s operations, we needed a platform that would enable us to centralise all the reports from our various scouts. After studying the market, we chose Scout Hub”, says Laurent D’Affnay, Head of Scouting at Standard Liège.

“The Scout Hub platform offers a centralised and intuitive solution for collecting, organising and analysing match reports, as well as individual reports on potential recruits,” said Laurent D’Affnay. “Thanks to its user friendly interface, we are able to record our observations and evaluations in an efficient manner, promoting transparent and fluid communication.”

The opportunity for Scout Mission to work together with Laurent and the rest of the Standard Liège scouting team has been invaluable, helping us understand their processes and gather feedback to further enhance the platform. Laurent had more good things to say: “After six months of collaboration, we can draw up a very positive initial assessment:

• Data centralisation: All match and individual reports are securely stored and accessible on the platform.
  
• Advanced analysis: We have advanced analysis tools to help us make decisions. Thanks to in-depth classification and evaluation of players according to our criteria, we can quickly identify their level and search for specific profiles, according to the club’s needs.
  
• Personalised follow-up: We closely monitor the progress of prospects and adapt our recruitment strategies to their performance.
  
• Management of local scouts: All local scouts living abroad are managed and supervised via the platform. They receive their assignments in the Scout Hub calendar and use the platform to submit their reports.

Scout Hub simplifies the administrative management of our reports and allows us to devote more time to player analysis.”

Scout Mission co-founder Adam Philbin added, “the experience of working with Standard Liège has been great and we look forward to continuing on the path together. We think Scout Hub can offer a ton of value to any football club, and are always excited to bring new clubs on board to boost their processes as well as continuously improving the platform with their feedback”.

If your club could benefit from the platform, please get in touch at scoutmission.com and see how Scout Mission can help.

About Scout Mission

Scout Mission is a UK startup reshaping the way football clubs and academies manage their talent ID and recruitment processes. With products like Scout Hub and the newly launched Academy Trialist Hub, the company is addressing the core challenges faced by football recruitment departments at both first team and academy level. For more details, visit scoutmission.com

Maidstone’s commitment to scouting and player recruitment is impressive, with the results clear to see on the pitch this season. The club’s scouting coverage genuinely punches above its weight, and demonstrates how seriously the club takes talent ID.

Speaking with Zach Foster-Crouch, Maidstone’s Head of Recruitment, we might need to buy him a pint for the good words. “Scout Hub has been a fantastic addition to our scouting department this season and it is something which we will continue to use for the foreseeable future. It has been an excellent tool for the management team – it allows us to track not only potential players, it also allows us to monitor our scouts and give them additional feedback on their reports.”

We pride ourselves on making Scout Hub accessible and easy to use for every scout, so it’s great to see that reflected in the feedback from Maidstone:

“Scout Hub is an incredibly easy to use system which ensures everything is in one place on one platform saving hours of time on admin tasks,” remarked Zach. “We are hugely thankful to the team at Scout Mission, using Scout Hub has allowed us to take our recruitment to a new level and we can’t speak highly enough of the Scout Mission team.”

So, there you have it – we can’t take any credit for Maidstone United’s amazing FA Cup run this season or their David vs Goliath 4th round victory, but it was brilliant cheering them on from the side-lines!

About Scout Mission

Scout Mission is a UK sports technology startup reshaping the way football clubs and academies manage their talent ID and recruitment processes. With products like Scout Hub and the newly launched Academy Trialist Hub, the company is addressing the core challenges faced by football recruitment departments. The team behind Scout Mission brings together expertise in product design, software engineering, data & analytics, and insights into football recruitment operations. For more details, visit scoutmission.com

This season Barrow were one of the latest clubs to sign up with Scout Mission, adopting our Scout Hub platform to sit at the heart of the scouting and recruitment department’s processes. We spoke with Joe Harvey, a recruitment analyst at Barrow who has been instrumental in the club’s scouting operations.

Scout Mission: What does your scouting and recruitment workflow look like at Barrow?

Joe Harvey: We believe in the quality of the data that we use. We partner with the guys at Statsbomb and we power our own personalised recruitment search tool using their raw data. The first step is often that custom system. We call it the Barrow Index. It allows us to quantify players based on who we are, how we play and focus in on what it means to be a Barrow player. From there, I’m personally out at live games roughly 3 times a week, and several members of the coaching staff will try and get out to games where they can too. Our Sporting Director Iain Wood gets out to lots of games where he can, and that allows us to build a real portfolio of live work. We couple together our data and live work and complement it with video work from Wyscout.

From here I’ll put together presentations to provide insight, firstly into the Sporting Director, then into the first team manager and then potentially into the ownership group who ultimately hold the keys. Our Sporting Director is the decision maker and that process works really well for the club.

Our workflow probably isn’t a million miles away from the way that most clubs around our level do things. We do still put a huge emphasis on live scouting. Anyone who’s seen Barrow play will know that we have a hard-working group of players, everyone pitches in and it’s about the team not individuals. I think when you’re analysing for recruitment you need to see first-hand how a player fits into his current team’s environment. During warm ups, throughout the game and even on the bench. I firmly believe this emphasis is a huge part of the clubs recent success on the field under the management of Pete Wild.

Scout Mission: What are your biggest challenges in scouting?

Joe Harvey: The biggest challenge for me comes in trusting your own eye. In a world where data recruitment is so easy to lean on, you can find yourself second guessing what you see. It’s far easier to fall back on the “well the data says he’s good at this” adage if something goes wrong. This removes personal responsibility. But it’s not the way to get positive results. Focusing on live scouting, trusting what your eye sees and allowing yourself to second guess what the data says is vital. Adding context to data is really important. “Player X is only doing well in this area of the game because he’s playing for Club Y who are super focused on that particular trait.” It’s going deeper and deeper, not just falling back on what the computer tells you.

It’s a far riskier endeavour, where you’re putting your neck on the line to back a certain player or not, but football is a game of risk on and off the field.

Scout Mission: How has Scout Hub helped your recruitment team?

Joe Harvey: Scout Hub has been a great addition to our software repertoire. We needed a focal point for all of our information that everyone could get to grips with using quickly. Not everyone can use complicated, intricate systems. Coaches want information as quickly as possible and they want to use software that feels familiar and isn’t clunky. The Scout Hub platform ticks those boxes for us.

Our ability to customise the workflow, the report structure and the notification system has been key too. We’ve got a specific way we want to do things and the team at Scout Mission have been great about aiding our ability to maintain that whilst switching over to their system.

Our output of written reporting has seen an upturn as more people at the club have bought in. Over time we’re using it more and more. Of course, the cost of the software was one of its huge selling points. As so many platforms pricing is going up exponentially, the offering from Scout Hub was reasonable and workable for us as a League Two club where every penny matters.

Scout Mission: What Scout Hub feature have you found most useful?

Joe Harvey: Being able to upload documents, images and videos to players profiles and player reports has allowed us to maintain our workflow of keeping players data scouting information tied in to their live scouting information. Because Scout Hub allows us to pull over information from our other tools, it’s become our central hub and that’s all we can ask for really.

Thank you Joe for taking the time to talk to us.

If you’re a club or organisation that want to know more about Scout Mission and how we can help your scouting and recruitment operations, please get in touch and contact us.

By integrating Scout Hub, QPR’s Academy scouting team will be able to systematically record and review player and match analyses. In addition to establishing a consolidated database for the scouts, Scout Hub ensures that the QPR scouting team can streamline their work and promptly identify emerging talents deserving further attention.

QPR have also collaborated closely with Scout Mission in the development process of their new academy trialist platform, Trial Hub, ensuring the platform adheres to the processes of the EFL’s youth development and Premier League’s professional development league standards. By using Scout Hub and Trial Hub in combination, QPR are able to level up their youth recruitment processes.

“Scout Hub has provided our scouting team with a powerful and user friendly platform,” remarked Gary Karsa, QPR’s Head of Academy Recruitment. “Teaming up with Scout Mission, their commitment to tailor the platform to our needs, ensuring we maximise its potential is commendable. Our scouts and coaches all get on well with the app, and we hope to keep building on its success going forward.”

Football clubs and scouts keen on experiencing the capabilities of Scout Mission firsthand are welcome to request a demo at scoutmission.com

About Scout Mission

Scout Mission is a UK startup reshaping the way football clubs and academies manage their talent ID and recruitment processes. With products like Scout Hub and the newly launched Trial Hub, the company is addressing the core challenges faced by football recruitment departments. The team behind Scout Mission brings together expertise in product design, user experience, software engineering, data & analytics, and insights into football recruitment operations. For more details, visit scoutmission.com

Through Trial Hub academies can:

• Recommend and invite players for trial
• Handle communication and document submission with parents through a secure Parent Portal
• Communicate with players’ clubs and schools in accordance with guidelines such as the 7 Day Approach rule
• Manage coaches’ trialist evaluations
• Adhere to EFL and other league registration processes and regulations

Developed in collaboration with EFL football academies, Trial Hub has been designed to ensure that every step of the trialist journey is digitised and made as efficient as possible, with a user-friendly interface that reduces hassle and paperwork and saves recruitment department’s crucial time. Using Trial Hub gives academies full oversight whilst streamlining day to day operations.

As the collaboration with more academies grows, Trial Hub’s features and roadmap are set to continually evolve, ensuring it remains at the forefront of the industry and continues to make life easier for recruitment departments that make use of it.

Football academies keen on optimising their Trialist management processes can request a demo at scoutmission.com

About Scout Mission

Scout Mission is a UK startup reshaping the way football clubs and academies manage their talent ID and recruitment processes. With products like Scout Hub and the newly launched Trial Hub, the company is addressing the core challenges faced by football recruitment departments. The team behind Scout Mission brings together expertise in product design, user experience, software engineering, data & analytics, and insights into football recruitment operations. For more details, visit scoutmission.com

Using Scout Hub, the Academy scouting team at Crystal Palace F.C. can capture and analyse player and match reports with much greater efficiency. Besides creating a single source of truth for the scouting team, Scout Hub helps Crystal Palace’s scouts co-ordinate their match calendars and alerts the team to high potential targets that warrant a closer look. The scouting team see Scout Hub as integral to the continued development of the Crystal Palace F.C. Academy and its recruitment of elite youth prospects.

“Scout Hub has been a great addition to our scouting process, really levelling up the way we manage academy scouting”, says Craig Armstrong, Academy National Recruitment Manager at Crystal Palace F.C. “Working with Scout Mission to create useful new features we needed and helping us get the most out of the platform has been excellent. We’ve been using Scout Hub throughout the season and the response has been great, all of our scouts find it really easy to use.”

Football clubs and scouts who are interested can request a demo at scoutmission.com

About Scout Mission

Scout Mission is a UK startup redesigning the way football clubs and scouts collect, report and access player data and insights. It has built and launched a new product: Scout Hub which enables scouts to overcome common challenges in football scouting. Scout Hub is built and designed with inputs from football scouts from various football clubs. Scout Mission is founded by a team combining decades of experience in product design, user experience, software engineering, API development, data & analytics, and of course football scouting. For more information, visit scoutmission.com

With Scout Hub, the scouting team at Cardiff City F.C. will capture, store and analyse players in an easier and more structured method. Besides addressing the common challenges in player data capture, the use of the platform also allows the team at Cardiff City F.C. to create a structured single source of player truth. With Scout Hub, Cardiff City F.C. will have a tool in place that facilitates the scouting process. It also enables scouting teams to manage their work flows more easily by allowing them to assign members of the team to best next actions such as reviewing particular players during a next match or creating insights to support decision making.

“Scout Hub offers us the best platform to meet our scouting needs for our First and U23 teams today”, says Kevin Beadell, Head of U23 and First Team Scouting at Cardiff City F.C. “Its ease of use to capture player reports, intuitive interface and ability to adapt features for our own use, made it an easy decision for us to start using Scout Hub. The feedback from our scouts has been extremely positive after a few months of use, all of our scouts have seen this as a massive improvement.””

Football clubs and scouts who are interested can request a demo at scoutmission.com

About Scout Mission

Scout Mission is a UK startup redesigning the way football clubs and scouts collect, report and access player data and insights. It has built and launched a new product: Scout Hub which enables scouts to overcome common challenges in football scouting. Scout Hub is built and designed with inputs from football scouts from various football clubs. Scout Mission is founded by a team combining decades of experience in product design, user experience, software engineering, API development, data & analytics, and of course football scouting. For more information, visit scoutmission.com

The team at Scout Mission has been working closely with football scouts to redesign and build a new way of managing the end to end process of football scouting. The result of this is a new cloud based platform that offers scouts the ability to capture player data at any time via any device. It stores all player information securely in one easily accessible place, making it easier to compare players and prepare player reports to drive decision making. Its intuitive interface helps scouts effortlessly capture player insights in the field, eliminating the need for taking notes on phones or notepads. Scout Hub lets scouts and scouting departments manage their process, by coordinating scouts with shared fixture calendars, assigning scouts to target players, and creating a range of next step actions with automated reminders and follow-ups to help keep the scouting team on focus.

The team at Scout Mission is determined to help scouts move their process into the digital age. Over time it has become clear that there are a ton of improvements to be made to the way football scouts capture, store and deliver player data. We will keep on pushing new improvements on a continuous basis and have a solid roadmap in place working alongside clubs from the top flights of British & European football. Latest updates to the platform include tactics boards, automated shadow teams, scouting team calendars, and a range of planning tools to ensure clubs don’t let talent fall off the radar. As we continue to collaborate with more clubs and scouts the Scout Hub features and roadmap will continue to evolve to stay relevant and truly meet our customers needs.

Football clubs and scouts who are interested can request a demo at scoutmission.com

About Scout Mission

Scout Mission is a UK startup redesigning the way football clubs and scouts collect, report and access player data and insights. It has built and launched a new product: Scout Hub which enables scouts to overcome common challenges in football scouting. Scout Hub is built and designed with inputs from football scouts from various football clubs. Scout Mission is founded by a team combining decades of experience in product design, user experience, software engineering, API development, data & analytics, and of course football scouting. For more information, visit scoutmission.com