Manchester United top academy productivity 2020/21 rankings

[Hoof the ball]

https://trainingground.guru/articles/manchester-united-top-2020/21-academy-productivity-rankings

For this year’s rankings I followed the same methodology used by Mark Crane for his previous editions.

A list was compiled of male English players (ie players eligible in the 2020/21 season to play for the England men’s national team) who played in at least one match for any team in the top five English leagues, based on data from the www.fbref.com website.

Information on the Academy, or Academies, attended by each English player who had made at least one league appearance was then collated and cross-referenced from information in Wikipedia, club biographies, news sources and www.transfermarkt.co.uk

An Academy, Centre of Excellence, or other club training structure was counted as having contributed to a player’s development if he was in attendance there at any point up to the age of 18.

There are players who may have been produced by these Academies who for various reasons may not be included in the research. Players who are not listed as English on www.fbref.com were not included. So players like Wilfried Zaha, who was developed by Crystal Palace but is listed as from the Ivory Coast, were excluded.

Furthermore, Welsh teams like Swansea and Cardiff City suffered tremendously in these rankings as most of their graduates are Welsh and not English. Players who were signed or on loan in other countries did not count towards the rankings either.

 

[Tyrion]

Honestly the academy has been the one part of the club that's been consistently good since SAF left. Almost everything dropped off apart from that. Januzaj (under Moyes), Rashford, McTominay and Greenwood have all been big helps and have often outperformed flop signings.

Some people act like the academy has failed because the first 11 isn't half academy graduates. That only happens once in a generation (us in the 90's, Barca in 2010). Our academy is as good as any imo.

 

[TheReligion]

@Adnan

 

[Adnan]

@Adnan

I tried creating the thread myself, but kept getting a error message.

But this further vindicates the good work that has been going on behind the scenes over the years, with John Murtough, Nick Cox and the team doing a very good job in raising the floor when it comes to developing youth and identifying talent home and abroad.

 

[elmo]

Academies have plenty of international players as well now, doesn't make sense to just judge based on English players.

Would be interesting to see if we're still top once you add in international academy players.

 

[Siezard]

Yeah man utd academy is the best. Even won the conference league title or something.