Ranking EVERY Premier League Academy From Worst to Best
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From Arsenal, who have nurtured the likes of Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe into the professional game, to Everton, whose first team contains former youth team stars like Anthony Gordon and Tom Davies, HITC Sevens attempts to rank every academy in the Premier League from worst to best.
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There's also Jamal Musiala who came from Chelsea's academy and is undoubtedly one of the most talented players in the world. Great video btw
@TecioNogueira
Жыл бұрын
don't remind us :(
@therealpvc2541
Жыл бұрын
There’s also John Terry lol how could he forget him?
@GuinessOriginal
Жыл бұрын
@@therealpvc2541 easily. Massively overrated
@Three_Sword_Hokage
Жыл бұрын
@@GuinessOriginal only just started watching football I see.
@thinzookeeper
Жыл бұрын
@@therealpvc2541 He’s originally a West Ham academy player. Tho Chelsea probably help develop him further.
I spent over 10 years coaching in my local area from under 7s up to under 15s. I should say I live just north of Portsmouth on the south coast. With the league, cups and tournaments we played probably 50+ games a season. In all that time not once did we see any scouts or were contacted by any of our local teams ( Portsmouth, Southampton, Brighton, Bournemouth plus many lower and non league teams ). Despite winning many promotions, leagues and tournaments they seemed to only be interested in certain fashionable teams. But Chelsea were a completely different organisation absolutely class. We saw their scouts regularly we knew them by name and 7 of our players ended up in their academies.
@reintaler6355
Жыл бұрын
was one of them Mason Mount?
@neilgibbs3880
Жыл бұрын
@@reintaler6355 Oh I so wish it was. I watched him a couple of times though when he was younger. He went to the same school as both my sons same year as my eldest. ( Purbrook Park ).
@Bdbtg28691
Жыл бұрын
It is a shame that they rarely give any of these players a chance to impress in the first team.
@abiodunodeleye7984
Жыл бұрын
Getting into Chelsea academy is one thing. Making 1st team is another!
@a1d4n33
Жыл бұрын
@@neilgibbs3880 How good was Mason Mount when he was younger?
Don’t forget Calvin Bassey who spent 5 years at the LCFC academy. I think it is worth mentioning how 80% of the names he mentioned for Leicester were current first team members, which compared to the other teams is massive
@logiic8835
Жыл бұрын
He was shocking yesterday
@itsytyt5192
Жыл бұрын
Hg
For arsenal, theres also Bennacer, Malen and Glen Kamara. Now all at top clubs
@Jaybale3
Жыл бұрын
I wouldn’t personally count malen he only joined for a year before going back to psv.
@TWW-zk9gw
Жыл бұрын
You could add Sczesny, Joe Willock, Isaac Hayden, Maitland-Niles, Luke Ayling, Eze from crystal palace was at Hale End as well. And he forgot to mention Jack Wilshere and Andrew Cole.
Brentford got rid of the academy for the “Bee” team
@maciejbala477
Жыл бұрын
get out haha
@musagakou903
Жыл бұрын
😂😂
Alfie, here's timestamps for the video: 0:00 Introduction 2:11 20. Brentford 4:14 19. Bournemouth 5:14 18. Newcastle United 6:24 17. Wolves 7:09 16. Nottingham Forest 8:06 15. Brighton & Hove Albion 9:06 14. Leeds United 10:09 13. Everton 11:19 12. Fulham 12:10 11. Leicester City 13:00 10. West Ham 14:04 9. Crystal Palace 14:51 8. Tottenham Hotspur 15:49 7. Southampton 16:42 6. Aston Villa 17:46 5. Liverpool 18:46 4. Arsenal 19:46 3. Manchester United 20:53 2. Manchester City 22:03 1. Chelsea
@danielmulhern6085
Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@TheAuthorizedJay
Жыл бұрын
@@danielmulhern6085 No problem, mate.
@abhinavpande2882
Жыл бұрын
Thank you king
@chalmers1288
Жыл бұрын
We love you James, oh yes we do
@antonydil7244
Жыл бұрын
I don't think man utd has a better academy than Arsenal.
I think you forgot to mention Jamal Musiala for Chelsea, he didn't start his youth career at Chelsea but joined when he was 8 and left when he was 17.
@masonmcallister3185
Жыл бұрын
Musiala played for the Southampton academy as well
@xkan395
Жыл бұрын
@@masonmcallister3185 wasnt that only for a year between 7-8 years old? pretty sure he was at the chelsea academy for 8-9 years
@therealpvc2541
Жыл бұрын
He forgot to mention John Terry lol
alfie, can you cover indonesian football and their high level of hooliganism, and also the indonesia-malaysia rivalry
@Diego-mk8xn
Жыл бұрын
Alfie please
@sushankpokharel7634
Жыл бұрын
Just few days back, I read an article about it and nearly 174 people died
@muhdpeep
Жыл бұрын
@@sushankpokharel7634 not few days back it was literally yesterday
@boney__70
Жыл бұрын
Up!!!
@yohanespaskal9352
Жыл бұрын
They not high lvl hooliganism. They just idiot, and frustrated with life in third world country.
La Cobham is undefeated
@therealpvc2541
Жыл бұрын
He forgot John Terry as an academy graduate lol
id agree with this. chelseas academy is incredible. they have an ex academy player in every premier league team its mental
@jr3624
Жыл бұрын
Spurs do not have one or have ever had one (from what I can recall)
Hale end is unmatched.
@frdjse
Жыл бұрын
It's in the dust compared to Cobham, I swear that Chelsea Academy is something else.
@robertburgess11
Жыл бұрын
The two are the two best around
@jackdaniels4346
Жыл бұрын
Should’ve come second
@silentobserver9418
8 ай бұрын
@@frdjsethat aged well
Kelechi Iheanacho being a product of Manchester City should come with massive asterisk next to his name, he joined after turning 18, and barely played in their Academy.
@mjc8281
Жыл бұрын
In fairness though he didn't mention Mee, Trippier, Sturridge who have all had outstanding careers in the top flight of English Football and played extensively for the Academy teams Mee(captained them to the Youth Cup win)
@MrMet777
Жыл бұрын
@@mjc8281 Yeah I agree that they should have been mentioned and I’m not trying to take anything away from the point that City has a great academy, just pointing out that Iheanacho is hardly a product of City’s Academy.
@mjc8281
Жыл бұрын
@@MrMet777 As I recall there was a bunch of strange stuff going on with the Iheanacho signing and the reason he didn't play more at youth level was he had to wait 8 months after making his debut in a pre-season tour before his visa came through... one theory is that those issues resulted in the CFB model being introduced.
Clapton CFC just played our first game at the oldest ground in London. It's fan owned and totally volunteer run! Such an inspirational journey since forming as a fan run splinter team (of Clapton FC) in 2018. Would be a great topic for a video!
22:48 Charly Musonda, Nathaniel Chalobah, and I guess you could also include Michael Olise
By the way,I am extremely so sad to see your beloved Hull City losing again by 2-0 at home to Luton Town yesterday to be going to 20th in the standings with just 11 points,good friend Alfie Potts Hammer!!!I hope you did attend the match which ended in a tear from your side,good friend!!!🙏
@Patrick61804
Жыл бұрын
Luton are seriously good though
@depekthegreat359
Жыл бұрын
@@Patrick61804 Indeed good friend,and I do see them challenging for a playoff spot in the later stage of the league!!!:-D
I haven’t seen the vid yet but if Chelsea is not first then forget everything you just watched
Congrats on 500k. 16th is harsh though.
As a Spurs fan, more so than Troy you’ve gotta keep an eye on Dane Scarlett. José, Nuno and now Conte all love him and he’s playing really well for Portsmouth in League 1.
@reborndiajack9612
Жыл бұрын
but our u21 team is woeful rn
@aryamanmani4025
Жыл бұрын
@@reborndiajack9612 That's why they're sent on loan lol
@reborndiajack9612
Жыл бұрын
@@aryamanmani4025 yeah but it’s generally shit
@aryamanmani4025
Жыл бұрын
@@reborndiajack9612 True lol. All my hopes on Dane, Lankashire and Devine. The rest look abysmal, even the young players we sign barely get a chance in the side.
@odity2076
Жыл бұрын
@@aryamanmani4025 Jamie Donley looks class too
Congrats on 500k!
You mentioned the IMG academy in connection with Freddy Adu. A good video could be made about that place. Not only have they turned out some soccer/football players, they’ve also trained loads of tennis, baseball and American football players who went professional. Their facilities are very impressive for an academy that isn’t sponsored by a single club.
@Not_Sal
Жыл бұрын
I’d love a video on that
Lovely, have been waiting
you forgot madueke and marcus edwards as other tottenham graduates, also dane scarlett and alfie devine who look very promising
Happy 500k subscribers Alfie! Still waiting for the documentary on Turkey's Big Three.
10:56 surprised you didn’t mention that Tom Davies is you look-a-like
Hey Alfie, with the World Cup Finals coming up, a video of the top 7 most inspirational non-winning WC teams is in order. Teams that over-performed to even qualify for the finals, or teams that were expected to be dogmeat in the group (or first group) stage and tuned out to be anything but, or even teams whose behavior during the WC final endeared them to fans and locals alike.
@aniketprasad3128
Жыл бұрын
Let me guess Mexico should be there somewhere. And maybe koreans
@evanerys
Жыл бұрын
@@aniketprasad3128 Not sure Mexico's perpetual round of 16 woes is "inspirational" and the dodgy officiating mars the S Korean story a bit. (although there have been DPRK entries that were inspirational) Croatia in the final round would be more an example of what I was talking about. USA making the quarters in 02 was similarly above expectations.
@SKa-tt9nm
Жыл бұрын
Bulgaria finishing 4th in 1994. They had never won a match at the WC prior to this tournament. Needed a last second goal in the last qualifier vs. France to make it to the WC. Beat the last two champions - Germany and Argentina - on the way to the semis.
Video idea: 7 Great Football Clubs with Lackluster Academys.
Brewster came from Chelsea’s academy
With my grand total of 0 days in a Premier League academy, I am very interested how they are seen by others. Further it has inspired me to continue this suggestion. Day 15: The biggest wins in every european top flight (Athletic Bilbio 12-1 FC Barcelona; Gladbach 12-0 Dortmund; Ajax 13-0 VVV Venlo).
I guess you watched Football Dreams: The Academy recently then? Was interesting to see the Palace academy behind closed doors.
nice vid🔥
Man utd have had at least one academy player in the matchday squad in every single game since the 1930s. A Guinness world record.
Tyrick Mitchell joined Crystal Palace's youth outfit only after Brentford closed their youth academy, but he has been great, so thanks Brentford!
Do a full video on Chelsea’s Academy please
Arsenal 4th is a violation
@Ninja-gt3zi
Жыл бұрын
Yes Arsenal easily top 2 and im not biased
@dansouthlondon9873
Жыл бұрын
@@Ninja-gt3zi Over Chelsea and City? Not sure about that one ngl
@danniwilder2198
Жыл бұрын
@@Ninja-gt3zi Why has Arsenal's academy been one of the best two academies in recent years? Has it achieved what the Chelsea & Man City academies have achieved. Has it provided as many England internationals across all the age groups? Has Arsenal's academy produced as many youngsters with a career in the professional game as the two academies I mentioned have?
Would love a follow up from the EFL. Definitely think some teams would make the top 10 above other prem teams. Perhaps could just pick 7 of the best ones from the EFL?
Hell yeah, it's Chelsea! Well done, Alfie! Fantastic video as always!
So Newcastle is a bit of a funny one because Wallsend Boys Club is actually responsible for a lot of the development of quality players in the Newcastle area (including the aforementioned Shearer, alongside Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Steve Bruce and many others) and they operate well past the usual academy player ages for other clubs.
Was Raheem Sterling not signed from QPR's academy? He wasn't too young before be moved if he was appearing on skill school-soccer am
@conleytoby1547
Жыл бұрын
Yes he did
The demon voice at the end tripped Me out 🤣
In terms of recent output (homegrown talent) I'd agree with Leeds in 14th but if you factor in recruitment we would be much higher, Victor Orta has helped sign so many gems for the academy in the last few years. Gelhardt, (Sam) Greenwood, Summerville, Gnonto, Lewis Bate, Sonny Perkins, Mateo Joseph, Gyabi, Hjelde, Drameh e.t.c
@davidaylott550
Жыл бұрын
exactly what i was going to say, i feel we’re much better than 14th
@conleytoby1547
Жыл бұрын
Lewis Bate came from Chelsea
JAMAL MUSIALA FROM CHELSEA
I am a city fan, but I undoubtedly agree with you that Chelsea's academy is pretty impressive. Fair ranking as well👍👍👍👍👍👍
@danniwilder2198
Жыл бұрын
Derrick Ombass. I'm a Chelsea fan who likes to follow the academy teams as much as possible. Yes, Chelsea's academy over the last decade has been very impressive but so too has Man.City's academy & their development of young players. In fact there was a good rivalry between Chelsea's & City's academies for a few years. For three seasons in a row, 14/15, 15/16, 16/17, Chelsea & City contested the FA Youth Cup final. Chelsea managed to win all three times but City eventually got some revenge when defeating Chelsea in the 19/20 final to finally get their hands on the most prestigious non-first team competition that we have in England. Chelsea's dominance has dropped off a bit in the last 2/3 years. It had to at some point, it's not realistic to think one club can remain dominant indefinitely. It's incredible that Chelsea's academy was able to keep the conveyor belt going for as long as they did. Four times Chelsea's U19's have reached the finals week of the Uefa Youth Cup that is held next to Uefa's headquarters in Switzerland every Easter time. The two semi-finals on the Friday & the final on the Monday. Chelsea have reached the final 4 times, winning the tournament twice & coming R/U twice. No other English academy has managed to reach the semi's or the final as of yet. I'm expecting Man City's academy to do so in the near future though. The one big negative regarding Chelsea's academy for quite a few years was how none of their academy players was being given a decent enough opportunity to become established in the first team. Thankfully though this eventually changed & in the last few years several youngsters from the academy have become established in the first team. Against AC Milan in the CL last week half the outfield players were from the academy (& it would have been 6 players if Mount hadn't been subbed off). Unfortunately though the club can't keep all of them at home. The summer before last, for example, the club sold 4 academy players for transfer fees totalling £80 million. There's no doubt a few gems have gotten away over the years. In the summer of 2019 the club lost 16 year old Jamal Musiala to Bayern Munich. To rub salt into the wounds he decided shortly after leaving Chelsea that he would represent Germany & not England (he has a German grandfather). He's still only 19 but already has 17 caps for Germany & has played over 100 games for Bayern's first team. As if losing De Bruyne & Salah some years back when we didn't need to wasn't bad enough.
Ivan Toney, Fraser Forster and Freddie Woodman all Newcastle too I believe
Gordon, Welch, Onyango, Dobbin, Simms, Patterson are just the immediate names who cane to mind when thinking of players that came through the Everton youth teams (ik it’s not the same as the academy but very similar
@leylannfitzgerald8473
Жыл бұрын
Patterson is from rangers mate
You should talk about United’s shortcomings with the Glazers again
West Ham players have been key in Luton Town’s rise (one of those then pulled up trees in Wrexham’s promotion) and they are current FA Cup Youth holders. Also Glen Johnson, Alvin Martin and Jamaine Defoe. Not bad for a park team (better than pub team level) 👍
Hey. Can you do a video with each premier league team's best academy 11 and rank them???
I can finally subscribe now that I'm not one of the people who got you to 500K
I really don’t know if I rate Chelsea’s academy, on the one hand, they win heaps of youth team trophies and accolades, but on the other hand, that’s arguably because none of those so called “talented youngsters” actually get an opportunity in the first, so are they really at the level they’re portrayed at?
@DustyBrah
Жыл бұрын
The transfer ban that Frank had to steer the ship through really helped them realise they can give the young players a chance and they will be good as we’ve seen with the likes that are in their first team now. Before that they never got the opportunity
Don't know if you have Done a what's happened at Skenderbeu. They are Albanian and won many many consecutive top flights but are declining rapidly resulting in relegation last season. Congrats on 500000
Day 3: You should make a video about Kardemir Karabükspor 🇹🇷 (they've won 5 games in the past 6 seasons)
18:46 dunno if it was deliberate but I do miss hearing that combination of number & club name
Wasn't sterling part of QPRs academy not Liverpool?
16:15 The GOAT carrying Southampton's standing
The issue of Newcastle developing players goes a long way back. Back in the 90s when Keegan was manager, he got rid of the reserve team and wanted to get rid of the youth team as well.
can you do a video about arsenio erico? He ist top ever goalscorer of the Argentinian league and one of the greatest pre World War 2 footballer. Di Stefano has called him the greatest player ever P.S. Great Video of course
Southampton did good with players such as Sam lightning McQueen Leicester city supporters like hamza choudhury because he is a academy player Liverpool have Trent Curtis Jones and Rhian Brewster who is now at Sheffield. Manchester have Phil Foden and harwood bellis a young centre back who Manchester City fans like. Fulham have had Harvey Elliot and Fabio Carvalho, good mention there. Aston Villa do have good young players such as Cameron Archer.
you missed Marcus Edwards in the Spurs tab. He s being amazing in Sporting
a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel
I have a friend whose cousin plays for the Brighton 2nd team.
How are Crystal Palace 9th? They are top of the u21s league, just beat psg u21 7-3 and have many players in the first team from the academy
11th for Leicester is criminal. Not only do they have one of the best academy facilities in the league, but every single player you mentioned is at the very least competing for a place in the squad.
Dane scarlett!!! He’s killing it at Portsmouth on Loan from Spurs
I knew Vitesse was a lock for #1 before I opened up the video.
Is it only modern academies? Because I don’t think you mentioned Fabregas, Adams, Keown, and Andy Cole. Of course I’m biased
A few players you left out for spurs that should’ve been mentioned are Marcus edwards (currently at sporting), noni madueke (currently at psv), Dennis cirkin (Sunderland) and a slightly older player who came through our academy is Ryan fredericks (Bournemouth). This may be cheating but armando broja, he played in our academy but the majority of his youth years were spent with Chelsea, he left us when he was 8 or 9.
I disagree about everton they were constant winners of the under 23 league plus the output in the past 5 years has been decent also Manchester city sign alot from them in terms of youth ...
@mancuniangamecat8288
Жыл бұрын
Wrong
Day 66 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing comeback to European competitions in 2021 seeing the early exit of Greek giants AEK Athens in a sensational win in Athens!
We the best
@mjstreak4804
Жыл бұрын
Bros sounding like DJ Khaled
To be fair, Mitchell actually came through Brentford's academy. Having said that, our U21s are currently top of the table and the U18s are second.
Chelsea let go of Jamal Musiala too 😭😭😭
Middlesbrough and Charlton’s must be up there for championship
Hale End at 4th position! You're having a laughing, innit?
@ClitPizza
Жыл бұрын
Exactly
Can you do an all time list
Time to rank all-time academy graduates of current EPL teams
Alfie don't agree with forest 16 , 12 more fitting , Brighton ahead u mentioned one player played for a top 6 club Barry , forest have had 8 in 15 years ????
Alfie, we all know that England, Germany, Spain, Italy are the leagues with the most talent. Leagues such as France or Portugal are below that. Assuming those are the top 6 leagues around the world, how would you rank the rest of the leagues from 7-20? As an American we always hear that the MLS is about the level of league 1 or the Greek leagues. I’m interested in your unbiased world opinions on world football.
Chilwell was signed from Milton Keynes.
What are your criteria for this? Dembélé signed for Fulham when he was 16. Hardly an academy product from a young age.
Jamal Musiala !
It looks very odd seeing Ederson in the outfield kit in the very first image in this
Make a video 📹 about the best young English players
Alfie, didn't Sterling and Fabregas get bought while they were young and pushed into first teams? I could be wrong but Sterling was a Super hot prospect at QPR and I'm sure so was fabregas. I think overall your assessment of these academy isn't going to be affected much but I think these players I mentioned would have been super stars anyway...
@ajb2759
Жыл бұрын
Sterling came through at qpr so he’s wrong there, but fabregas was a part of a previous deal arsenal made and he did in fact come through Arsenals academy before signing professionally
@Midnight-ot3oi
Жыл бұрын
@@ajb2759 thanks, it's just my opinion that Fabregas learned most of his abilities at Barcelona but I see what you mean because he didn't play for the first team until his return to Barcelona.
how was sterling included in liverpool’s academy, i thought he came thru at QPR?
This guy put UTD 3rd right now... wow
How many other players who came through an English clubs academy have won the ballon d’or besides Michael Owen?
So Newcastle Utd., where the great Santiago Mùnez had a rise are in the relegation zone in this list. 🤔
He meant to say Dane Scarlett, not Troy Parrott 😅
My Man snuck in Jesse Lingard like we wouldn’t notice 😭
@Yashiv88
Жыл бұрын
Well we don't talk about He Who Must Not Be Named
Why are Bellerin and Fabregas mentioned for Arsenal. Both are from the Barca youth academy not Arsenal's
Could you please rate the Women's Welsh Premier league this would include the North and South. So all the teams playing thier aren't that many.
Sonny Perkins remember the name
Forgot to mention Djed Spence for Fulham
We all know who's will be the first before watching the video, right?
The Chelsea army baby 🥳
You forgot to mention Marcus Edwards, Noni Madueke and Dane Scarlett all from Tottenhams academy who will no doubt be great players in a few years time
What on earth is going on at akhisarspor video? In the super lig in Turkey in 2018/19 but are now playing in the 4th tier of Turkish football
Mbappe wanted to join Chelsea's academy but they rejected him cause he couldn't defend lol
Chelsea coming in at no.1 is as predictable as climate change leading to colder winters and Hotter summers 😂😂😅
Man Utd over arsenal based on current academy is crazy