Football Performance Consulting for Clubs and Academies
External sport science support that helps your staff plan, monitor and report training load — so performance data becomes a weekly decision, not a spreadsheet nobody opens.
A performance department without the full-time headcount
Many football clubs now collect more performance data than their staff can use. GPS units are worn every session, players fill in wellness questionnaires and session-RPE, and strength tests are run a few times a season. But with one fitness coach and a busy technical staff, that data rarely turns into a clear decision on Monday morning.
Football performance consulting closes that gap. As an external sport science partner, V High Performance designs and runs the performance process with your staff: what to measure, how to read it, how to report it and how it should influence the training week.
The approach is practical rather than academic. Every metric has to answer a question the coaches actually ask — who needs to be managed today, was the week delivered as planned, and is each player ready for the next match.
What the consulting covers
Each club starts from a different place, so the scope is agreed after a first audit. These are the areas most engagements combine.
Performance process audit
A review of how the club currently plans, monitors and reports training load, and where the process breaks down between staff members.
Sport science workflow design
A simple weekly routine for data collection, quality control and reporting that fits your microcycle and the tools you already have.
GPS & load monitoring
External and internal load analysis with individual references and match-day context. More about GPS & load monitoring.
Dashboards & staff reports
Coach-ready reporting in Power BI, Tableau or Excel. More about performance dashboards.
Strength & conditioning for football
Gym and conditioning programming aligned with the match calendar, plus testing (jumps, sprints, strength) to track the squad over the season.
Football performance analysis
Match physical-demand profiles by position, competition benchmarks and individual player profiling to inform training design and recruitment conversations.
From first call to weekly support
Intro call
We talk about the squad, the staff structure, the data you already collect and what the head coach needs from the performance department.
Audit
I review your current data, reports and weekly routine, and deliver a short written plan with priorities — what to keep, what to drop and what to build.
Implementation
Monitoring templates, thresholds, individual references and a first version of the weekly staff report are built and tested with your staff.
Weekly support & review
Ongoing processing, reporting and staff meetings, with a monthly review of what is working and what needs adjusting.
A third-tier club has GPS units and one fitness coach, but the data is only exported after matches. In the first month, the staff agree on six key metrics, every session is processed the same day, and the coach receives a one-page report before the Tuesday planning meeting with the players to review flagged against their own four-week reference.
Field experience and data, in the same person
V High Performance is run by Jordi Verdaguer, a football fitness coach who moved into sport science and performance data. He has worked as Fitness Coach in Spanish professional football (Real Unión Club, Primera Federación), inside the Sport Science structure of Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia, and with professional footballers and ATP/WTA tennis players on an individual basis.
- MSc in Big Data applied to Physical Preparation in Football (UCAM / Sports Data Campus)
- UEFA B coaching licence and STATSports certification
- Hands-on experience with STATSports, Catapult, WIMU and Sonra data
- Reporting in Power BI, Tableau, Excel, Python and R
The value is not in the tools. It is in knowing which numbers matter to a coach on a Tuesday, and how to present them so they are actually used. See full experience.
Frequently asked questions
Do you work remotely or on site?
Both. Most of the weekly work (data processing, reports and staff meetings) is done remotely. On-site visits are planned for the audit phase, key moments of the season or staff workshops. I am based in the UK and work with clubs across Europe.
Do you replace our fitness coach or sport scientist?
No. The aim is to support your existing staff, not to replace them. I take on the parts of the process your staff do not have time for — data cleaning, reporting, monitoring design — so the coaches can focus on the pitch.
What size of club do you work with?
Mostly professional and semi-professional clubs and academies that already collect performance data (GPS, RPE, wellness or testing) but do not have a full-time sport scientist, or need a second pair of hands in the performance department.
How long does an engagement last?
A process audit usually takes two to four weeks. Ongoing support is normally agreed per season or half-season, with a monthly review so both sides can adjust the scope.
Which languages do you work in?
English and Spanish. Reports can be delivered in either English or Spanish.
Other ways V High Performance can help
Want to talk about your club's performance process?
Tell me how your staff currently plans, monitors and reports — I'll reply with a practical first step.
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