Ranking EVERY Premier League Academy From Worst to Best

[@neilgibbs3880]

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]

was one of them Mason Mount?

[@neilgibbs3880]

@@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]

It is a shame that they rarely give any of these players a chance to impress in the first team.

[@abiodun-b9]

Getting into Chelsea academy is one thing. Making 1st team is another!

[@a1d4n33]

@@neilgibbs3880 How good was Mason Mount when he was younger?

[@axEL-vn8uq]

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]

don't remind us :(

[@therealpvc2541]

There’s also John Terry lol how could he forget him?

[@StoutProper]

@@therealpvc2541 easily. Massively overrated

[@Three_Sword_Hokage]

@@StoutProper only just started watching football I see.

[@thinzookeeper]

@@therealpvc2541 He’s originally a West Ham academy player. Tho Chelsea probably help develop him further.

[@TylerAven10]

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]

He was shocking yesterday

[@itsytyt5192]

Hg

[@TheAuthorizedJay]

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]

Thank you

[@TheAuthorizedJay]

@@danielmulhern6085 No problem, mate.

[@abhinavpande2882]

Thank you king

[@chalmers1288]

We love you James, oh yes we do

[@antonydil7244]

I don't think man utd has a better academy than Arsenal.

[@dsuniverse132]

For arsenal, theres also Bennacer, Malen and Glen Kamara. Now all at top clubs

[@Jaybale3]

I wouldn’t personally count malen he only joined for a year before going back to psv.

[@TWW-zk9gw]

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.

[@muhdpeep]

alfie, can you cover indonesian football and their high level of hooliganism, and also the indonesia-malaysia rivalry

[@Diego-mk8xn]

Alfie please

[@sushankpokharel7634]

Just few days back, I read an article about it and nearly 174 people died

[@muhdpeep]

@@sushankpokharel7634 not few days back it was literally yesterday

[@boney__70]

Up!!!

[@yohanespaskal9352]

They not high lvl hooliganism. They just idiot, and frustrated with life in third world country.

[@Patrick61804]

Brentford got rid of the academy for the “Bee” team

[@maciejbala477]

get out haha

[@musagakou903]

😂😂

[@xkan395]

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]

Musiala played for the Southampton academy as well

[@xkan395]

@@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]

He forgot to mention John Terry lol

[@obaone]

La Cobham is undefeated

[@therealpvc2541]

He forgot John Terry as an academy graduate lol

[@Maj1794]

Hale end is unmatched.

[@faajose]

It's in the dust compared to Cobham, I swear that Chelsea Academy is something else.

[@robertburgess11]

The two are the two best around

[@jackdaniels4346]

Should’ve come second

[@silentobserver9418]

​@@faajosethat aged well

[@archielong1101]

id agree with this. chelseas academy is incredible. they have an ex academy player in every premier league team its mental

[@jr3624]

Spurs do not have one or have ever had one (from what I can recall)

[@MrMet777]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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.

[@bababababababa6124]

Congrats on 500k!

[@TristanCCFC]

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!

[@MegaDAli95]

22:48 Charly Musonda, Nathaniel Chalobah, and I guess you could also include Michael Olise

[@depekthegreat359]

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]

Luton are seriously good though

[@depekthegreat359]

@@Patrick61804 Indeed good friend,and I do see them challenging for a playoff spot in the later stage of the league!!!:-D

[@aryamanmani4025]

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]

but our u21 team is woeful rn

[@aryamanmani4025]

@@reborndiajack9612 That's why they're sent on loan lol

[@reborndiajack9612]

@@aryamanmani4025 yeah but it’s generally shit

[@aryamanmani4025]

@@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]

@@aryamanmani4025 Jamie Donley looks class too

[@ianmeland4320]

Lovely, have been waiting

[@ThreeRunHomer]

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]

I’d love a video on that

[@evanerys]

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]

Let me guess Mexico should be there somewhere. And maybe koreans

[@evanerys]

@@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]

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.

[@robertnettleship5467]

Congrats on 500k. 16th is harsh though.

[@DGAMINGDE]

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).

[@bensa9141]

you forgot madueke and marcus edwards as other tottenham graduates, also dane scarlett and alfie devine who look very promising

[@leemcdonald1342]

Video idea: 7 Great Football Clubs with Lackluster Academys.

[@saeed_05]

10:56 surprised you didn’t mention that Tom Davies is you look-a-like

[@Ryan-jk5xn]

Man utd have had at least one academy player in the matchday squad in every single game since the 1930s. A Guinness world record.

[@blaisea2652]

I haven’t seen the vid yet but if Chelsea is not first then forget everything you just watched

[@davymugs7291]

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]

Yes he did

[@rhysjackson2597]

I guess you watched Football Dreams: The Academy recently then? Was interesting to see the Palace academy behind closed doors.

[@KindredBrujah]

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.

[@fartingexplodingkirby3569]

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]

Patterson is from rangers mate

[@psyduckcrazy2043]

Tyrick Mitchell joined Crystal Palace's youth outfit only after Brentford closed their youth academy, but he has been great, so thanks Brentford!

[@DustyBrah]

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]

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

[@etaker203]

Do a full video on Chelsea’s Academy please

[@andreaswong8829]

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]

exactly what i was going to say, i feel we’re much better than 14th

[@conleytoby1547]

Lewis Bate came from Chelsea

[@jesuisunstroopwafel]

Happy 500k subscribers Alfie! Still waiting for the documentary on Turkey's Big Three.

[@reintaler6355]

18:46 dunno if it was deliberate but I do miss hearing that combination of number & club name

[@Synical16]

Wasn't sterling part of QPRs academy not Liverpool?

[@kevink01639]

Brewster came from Chelsea’s academy

[@sammay1972]

Arsenal 4th is a violation

[@Ninja-gt3zi]

Yes Arsenal easily top 2 and im not biased

[@danniwilder2198]

@@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?

[@martintemelkov]

Hell yeah, it's Chelsea! Well done, Alfie! Fantastic video as always!

[@Ninja-gt3zi]

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

[@kieransteers]

Ivan Toney, Fraser Forster and Freddie Woodman all Newcastle too I believe

[@llamarolled3843]

16:15 The GOAT carrying Southampton's standing

[@derrick1767]

I am a city fan, but I undoubtedly agree with you that Chelsea's academy is pretty impressive. Fair ranking as well👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@danniwilder2198]

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.

[@50pence59]

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) 👍

[@IlyaasZaki]

nice vid🔥

[@cbarclay99]

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.

[@nickycustus963]

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

[@nif3869]

You should talk about United’s shortcomings with the Glazers again

[@ezrameko7911]

Hale End at 4th position! You're having a laughing, innit?

[@ClitPizza]

Exactly

[@thegloriouspyrocheems2277]

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!

[@timothynetza8936]

Hey. Can you do a video with each premier league team's best academy 11 and rank them???

[@man4437]

I can finally subscribe now that I'm not one of the people who got you to 500K

[@anglesmcmuffin1260]

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 ????

[@robbutterill1426]

how was sterling included in liverpool’s academy, i thought he came thru at QPR?

[@DefinitelyNotPaperCup]

I have a friend whose cousin plays for the Brighton 2nd team.

[@BALHAM69]

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

[@wagwanbennydj6003]

The demon voice at the end tripped Me out 🤣

[@bhuvanbeniwal2308]

JAMAL MUSIALA FROM CHELSEA

[@FLORIDA_MAN_813]

Is it only modern academies? Because I don’t think you mentioned Fabregas, Adams, Keown, and Andy Cole. Of course I’m biased

[@jackbrownio3]

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?

[@KindredBrujah]

What are your criteria for this? Dembélé signed for Fulham when he was 16. Hardly an academy product from a young age.

[@danielmcdivitt3467]

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]

Wrong

[@anguslees9939]

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.

[@Will-gg1zr]

How many other players who came through an English clubs academy have won the ballon d’or besides Michael Owen?

[@BALHAM69]

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.

[@BrunoSantos-li7jz]

you missed Marcus Edwards in the Spurs tab. He s being amazing in Sporting

[@Midnight-ot3oi]

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]

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]

@@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.

[@MissSnowFire]

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.

[@iTzBeNjI1]

I knew Vitesse was a lock for #1 before I opened up the video.

[@SOCKIEtheMONSTER]

Why are Bellerin and Fabregas mentioned for Arsenal. Both are from the Barca youth academy not Arsenal's

[@Jaybale3]

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.

[@jackkineke]

Dane scarlett!!! He’s killing it at Portsmouth on Loan from Spurs

[@isaacwoodroff8756]

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

[@buckokid5930]

It looks very odd seeing Ederson in the outfield kit in the very first image in this

[@scodo45]

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.

[@strasbourgsteve]

Day 3: You should make a video about Kardemir Karabükspor 🇹🇷 (they've won 5 games in the past 6 seasons)

[@mattheendpod2659]

Chilwell was signed from Milton Keynes.

[@footballchannel8430]

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

[@BenBen-yx6ug]

Ivan tony came from newcastles acadmay

[@Conker66]

Chelsea let go of Jamal Musiala too 😭😭😭

[@sanishshrestha6454]

So Newcastle Utd., where the great Santiago Mùnez had a rise are in the relegation zone in this list. 🤔

[@deepakpandey8240]

City’s rise just doesn’t stop. They have invested heavily but at correct places. I have to give them that. I wouldn’t be surprised if they surpasses Chelsea in the next few years at the top.

[@mythix5906]

True as a City fan i am excited to see the talent in the next few years with the likes of Palmer, Delap, Esbrand, Lewis, O'Reilly. We are in good hands with these kids ready to step up in the next 2-4 years, i mean people like Rico Lews, Esbrand and Palmer have already made a claim to be in the first squad

[@spackyjacky97]

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

[@panamabananaman]

Can you do an all time list

[@Roundholesinsquarepegs]

Middlesbrough and Charlton’s must be up there for championship

[@riwinger1118]

Time to rank all-time academy graduates of current EPL teams

[@robertspencer2516]

If you were.going to mention West Hams World Cup winners and the likes of Barmby at Spurs can’t see how you could not mention Lineker Shilton and Banks at the old Filberts.

[@Flava2Sava1]

what is happening at Furth????

[@laurendilario4777]

Make a video 📹 about the best young English players

[@seaniekay]

Mbappe wanted to join Chelsea's academy but they rejected him cause he couldn't defend lol

[@blueexpresstv5401]

Chelsea coming in at no.1 is as predictable as climate change leading to colder winters and Hotter summers 😂😂😅

[@RyuzakiTaiyou]

Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 390) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.

[@boney__70]

We all know who's will be the first before watching the video, right?

[@odity2076]

Forgot to mention Djed Spence for Fulham

[@Imillusion14]

My Man snuck in Jesse Lingard like we wouldn’t notice 😭

[@Yashiv88]

Well we don't talk about He Who Must Not Be Named

[@Sarcaman]

He meant to say Dane Scarlett, not Troy Parrott 😅

[@letsgo8814]

The Chelsea army baby 🥳

[@arta1575]

Jamal Musiala !