Football Manager content creator with a special love for tactics, wonderkids and player development. Value €475K Here we must accredit the purchase of Erling Braut Haaaland, his goal scoring records and their fine achievements in Champions League and Europa League for the past two seasons. Benjamin Nygren – 08.07.2001 – AMC – Est. Bruno de Carvalho, President, Sporting Clube de Portugal, 20161. Lois Openda – 16.02.2000 – AMC/ST – Est. It can pride itself to develop Ballon D’Or winner Luka Modric. Finally, we find Sport Lisboa e Benfica – a Portuguese club with a long and proud history. Value €37.5K Dominik Yankov – 28.07.2000 – M/AMLC – Est. It was one of the odd, but historic moments of football. Value €23Mill One reason is their ineligibility to follow the rapid rising transfer fees. Value €1.1Mill. It’s now eight years since the historic moment happened; FC Barcelona fielded an entire line-up of home-grown players. Manchester City’s new City Football Academy is one of the newest football academies in top football. Value €2.9Mill With an explicit focus on playing the Anderlecht way, Jean Kindermans, the director of the Anderlecht academy and the clubs scouting network looks to the region of Brussel to track down the best talents within the region of Brussel between the age of 6 to 12. Now it’s starting to bear fruits. As you will discover, the list of best youth academies will perhaps give you some surprises. The summer of 2019 saw 7 new promising talents enter the gates of Aon Training Complex including youngsters from France and Holland, who where wanted by bigger clubs. Future is definitely looking bright for Chelsea and their youth development program. About Passion4FM’s Ranking of Best Youth Academies. Value €300K Value €3.8Mill Their records has managed to increase the interest for players in Scandinavia and outside Europe, such as African and South American players to use the club as their stepping stone for Premier League football or reaching the top level of football. The best talents of La Masia have left before turning 16 and being able to sign a professional contract. Odilon Kossounou – 04.01.2001 – DC (D/WBR) – Est. Just outside the top 10 we find Anderlecht, the most successful club in Belgium with five European competition trophies, 34 championship titles and 9 cup wins. Outside A.C Milan and Internazionale there are few Italian clubs which has been as productive and who have served as many players to the top flights of the Italian football leagues as the Giallorossi academy. While the list of Manchester City graduates who have taken the world stage is currently minimal the reality for us Football Manager fans will be quite different in the following seasons. Passion4FM’s ranking of best youth academy clubs in Football Manager 2020 is created with the help of the FM20 database [20.4.1]. Under the tutelage of youth recruitment director Aurelio Pereira he has overseen the development of Portuguese icons like Figo, Paulo Futre, Simão Sabrosa, João Moutinho, Cedric, Ricardo Quaresma and Nani. But it’s not only forwards they are most known to produce. Personally, I’ve always looked at Arsenal as the club developing some of the best defenders in England, perhaps due to Ashley Cole, Armand Traore, Martin Keown, Tony Adams, but they’ve also been the home for Andy Cole, Ray Parlour, Paul Merson and a large range of other notable international stars who entered the club at a young age like Cesc Fabregas, Wojciech Szczesny, Serge Gnabry, Nicklas Bendtner and Héctor Bellerín. Value €750K A club with exceptional Youth Recruitment is far more likely to find and bring in highly-rated Academy Players than a club in the same area who have low Youth Recruitment. Nikola Krstovic – 25.06.2003 – ST – Est. The players needs to get good grades in order to play matches for the Juvenile squads and follows a strict schedule to develop into future footballers. Paris SG and Barcelona). Value €275K, Yoo Ju-Ahn – 01.10.1998 – ST – Est. The Nerazzurri past records of producing talents can be rated similar to Southampton and PSV as they have frequently served the Italian National team and been the stepping stone for great Italian footballers. Value €6Mill Value €625K Eric Garcia – 09.01.2001 – DC – Est. Value €250K Ilaix Moriba – 19.01.2003 – MC (DM/AMC) – Est. Please use the comment field if you have something on your heart regarding the ranking of the clubs with best training facilities in Football Manager. Value €1.6Mill Value €4.6Mill A number of English legends has come through the Chelsea academy over the past 40 years. Since 2004, when they were given a FA ‘Centre of Excellence’ license, the club has taken much pride and effort to develop their own players within the Academy. Even though the club received a transfer ban in May 2019 for transferring and registering overseas players under 18, the transfer ban is now lifted by FIFA. Value €6.25K Luciano Arriagada – 20.04.2002 – ST – Est. For 4 decades, hundreds of children from all over the world including local Spanish footballers have been inaugurated into the La Masia Academy. Value €975K. Value €13.5Mill. Value €275K. The billionaire owner, Sheikh Mansour, have invested heavily to make the club the best in the world. We hope this shows you which clubs have a high focus on youth production and seeing a player’s progression all the way through to the first team. Faustino Anjorin – 23.11.2001 – AMC – Est. The best football academies in the UK or the football academy with the best chance of breaking through to the first team is Southampton FC Academy. To the East of Brussel close to the border of Germany we find the Limburg region with the former Jupiler Pro league champions KRC Genk. For certain clubs we have based this ranking on their level of youth facility and junior coaching compared to the level of youth recruitment. While the current squad only features three players coming through the academy, they can always trust their facilities to provide results for the future. Ranking Football Manager 2020 BEST YOUTH ACADEMIESWelcome to this years ranking of the clubs with best youth academies in Football Manager 2020. Krépin Diatta – 25.02.1999 – AMRLC – Est. The Feyenoord Academy (aka Varkenoord) has won the Rinus Michels award for the best academy in the nation multiple times, most recently in 2014. The recent star to have emerged from the La Masia academy is Ansu Fati, but we might not be too far away until the next crop of talents breaks through in the likes of Ilaix Moriba, Alejandro Balde and Pedri. Even though the biggest legends are John Terry, Graeme Le Saux and Ian Pearce, Chelsea have served the Premier League with some great players in recent years. From their ranks Dutch legends and fantastic players who have taken the world with storm has been pushed out on a regular basis. Paul Mitchell. Value €3.4Mill While PSV might not have developed the biggest wonderkids in Netherlands, at least within my knowledge, the club has started to reach the same level as Feyenoord in recent years. On the top of the list of world clubs where players have departed to reach the five major European leagues ranked by Football Observatory we find AFC Ajax ahead of Benfica and RB Salzburg. In their long and pride history players like Vincent Kompany, Romelu Lukaku, Dries Mertens, Youri Tielemens and Dennis Praet have emerged from the Belgium powerhouse, right in the outskirt of Brussel in the past years. Oliver Skipp – 16.09.2000 – DM/MC – Est. Value €91K, Loïc Mbe Soh – 13.06.2001 – DC – Est. It takes a lot of time and success to get good youth teams consistently! Value €250K Value €93K We’re talking about Argentina of course, the country who gave us Lionel Messi and Diego Armando Maradona. Charles de Ketelaere – 10.03.2001 – MC (D/WB/ML) – Est. Value €26K Value €24Mill. Marouan Azarkan – 08.12.2001 – AMRL – Est. From Rinus Michels, Johan Cruyff, Ruud Krol and the Total Football era, to Frank Rijkaard, Dennis Bergkamp, Marco van Basten, Frank de Boer, Edgar Davids and Patrick Kluivert, to more rising heroes in Matthijs de Ligt, Justin Kluivert and Donny van den Beek. Value €375K Value €17Mill. Tomás Tavares – 07.03.2001 – D/WBR – Est. Diogo Matos, Head of Youth academy, Sporting Clube de Portugal, 20121. Wouter Burger – 16.02.2001 – DM/MC – Est. Discover the top 70 football academies with best youth training facilities in FM20. The youth rating will influence on the amount of players with an average higher CA or PA level. Xavi Simons – 21.04.2003 – DM/MC – Est. Carlos Cuesta – 09.03.1999 – DC/DM – Est.