Welcome to Pro Player, Yorkshire’s fastest growing youth football academy. Founded in 2014, Pro Player has been bridging the gap between professional academies and local grassroots football through our extensive range of weekly sessions designed to nurture and develop young players.

Our Academy model is designed to cater for players aged 4-16 and is structured around our Player Performance Pyramid that provides a clear development pathway for all our players, which is bespoke at each performance tier.

What makes Pro Player Football Academy unique is that all of our coaches are current or ex professional footballers who are FA/UEFA qualified, CRB checked, fully insured and first aid certified. In addition to this, many of our coaches have academic qualifications in areas such as sports science or strength and conditioning. We feel this allows us to provide a high standard of coaching that is on a level with any professional football academy. In order to maintain this high level of coaching we have a maximum coach to player ratio of 1:12. This allows each coach to work with a small group of players and ensures that the high standard of players in each age group is maintained.

The academy is based at Kettlethorpe High School, Wakefield, which offers 1st class 3G facilities and premier league standard training equipment that provides the best training & development experience around.