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What Football Training Equipment Do Coaches Actually Need? A Guide from the Training Ground
What Football Training Equipment Do Coaches Actually Need? A Guide from the Training Ground
The right football training equipment does not just fill a bag or tick a kit list. It shapes the sessions your players remember, the habits they build and the standards... Read more...
Why 3v3 Football Is the Best Thing to Happen to Young Players and What You Need to Play It
Why 3v3 Football Is the Best Thing to Happen to Young Players and What You Need to Play It
The FA's new 3v3 format is transforming youth football for Under 7s, giving every player more touches, more decisions and more development time. Mike Phelan explains why this is the... Read more...
Careers opportunities for the sports mad school and college child
Careers opportunities for the sports mad school and college child
Mike Phelan Coaching and PEAK4 hold education close to their hearts in all the work they deliver across communities, schools and in the grassroots sectors. In modern professional sport there is... Read more...
The Harvard of Football: Inside the Manchester United Blueprint for Elite Talent Development
The Harvard of Football: Inside the Manchester United Blueprint for Elite Talent Development
The 2026 United Soccer Coaches Convention recently played host to a masterclass in elite performance. Mike Phelan Coaching was invited by Inspire Sports to participate in their seminar which focussed on world-class insights from... Read more...
Mike Phelan Presents Award at North West Football Awards
Mike Phelan Presents Award at North West Football Awards
Mike Phelan had the honor of presenting the League One Player of the Year award at the Armstrong North West Football Awards Mike Phelan had the honor of presenting the... Read more...
Mike Phelan Coaching Team Head to the US
Mike Phelan Coaching Team Head to the US
The Mike Phelan Coaching team is set to make a significant impact at the upcoming United Soccer Coaches Convention in Chicago, scheduled for January 8-12, 2025.  The Mike Phelan Coaching... Read more...
Inside Professional Football
Inside Professional Football
This summer www.mikephelancoaching.com in conjunction with www.qe.org delivered a summer school like no other for existing and prospective students. ‘Inside Professional Football’ (A week in the life of a Premier and Champions League level... Read more...
Sir Alex Ferguson: The Ultimate Leader
Sir Alex Ferguson: The Ultimate Leader
Sir Alex Ferguson: The Ultimate Leader Leadership that drives performance demands vision, clarity, communication, and the ability to transcend through an organisation or group. It’s about creating culture. True leadership... Read more...
SHOOTING MASTERCLASS - Chop inside or Open up and Strike?
SHOOTING MASTERCLASS - Chop inside or Open up and Strike?
In this session MP Coaching guest specialist striker coach Steve Guppy brings us further detail on the fine art of creating shooting opportunities and the more intricate technical details that... Read more...
SOME GREAT PRIZES ON OFFER FOR MP CUSTOMERS
SOME GREAT PRIZES ON OFFER FOR MP CUSTOMERS
Two top Premier League players — Harry Maguire and Andy Robertson — have generously donated signed shirts to MP Coaching to help give back to the grassroots game. Both players... Read more...
Mike Phelan Coaching visits Singapore
Mike Phelan Coaching visits Singapore
It’s been a busy June so far for the MP Coaching team with visits to Thailand and Singapore and this morning we had the pleasure of providing coach education for... Read more...
CREATING SHOOTING OPPORTUNITIES WITH STEVE GUPPY
CREATING SHOOTING OPPORTUNITIES WITH STEVE GUPPY
Creating shooting opportunities within the confined space of the 18-yard box and closer to goal is increasingly difficult in modern football. Defenders are getting smarter, team set ups and out... Read more...
MP Coaching Visits New York City
MP Coaching Visits New York City
A Dynamic Week of Soccer Development Across Two Prestigious Programs For the third time in what has already been an action-packed 2025, the MP Coaching team returned to the United States—this time... Read more...
MP Coaching New York City
MP Coaching New York City
So here we are on a 7 day stint of social events, player camps, coach education workshops, university and corporate visits as the team work their way around NYC, New... Read more...
Mike Phelan Coaching at USYS National Showcase in Florida
Mike Phelan Coaching at USYS National Showcase in Florida
MP Coaching took part in the US Youth Soccer’s Olympic Development Program’s boy’s interregional event at ChampionsGate in Orlando, Florida over the weekend working with top youth and college coaches... Read more...
Games For Goalscoring (Session 2)
Games For Goalscoring (Session 2)
Following on from session one in the games for goalscoring series (inside the penalty area) Mike and MP Coaching now take the original drill a little further. In this second... Read more...
Games For Goalscoring
Games For Goalscoring
In this training session Mike Phelan addresses the art of goalscoring and working inside the penalty area.  Equipment Needed: 4 x Samba Aluminium Goals 20 x Samba Training Balls 2 x Samba Flat... Read more...
Connecting Play & Advancing Field Position (Coaching Through Chaos)
Connecting Play & Advancing Field Position (Coaching Through Chaos)
In a recent interview with our director and co-founder Mike Phelan, the MPC media team discussed the realities of coaching, how when working with players to get the best you... Read more...
Deliberate Play
Deliberate Play
Deliberate play is a key aspect of learning within any talent development pathway and is arguably a fundamental piece of the jigsaw puzzle when it comes to athlete progression in... Read more...
The finer details in the art of defending (Stopping the Cross)
The finer details in the art of defending (Stopping the Cross)
In this video our elite coaches Paul McGuinness and Mike Phelan break down the subcomponents of stopping the cross. Crosses have been data characterized as the assist source of in... Read more...
Game Knowledge, Scanning and Information Processing
Game Knowledge, Scanning and Information Processing
A much-discussed topic in modern coaching is scanning. But why do players need to do this? and Why are coaches asking players to check their shoulders and lift their heads... Read more...
Forward play, linking the midfield, movement, timing and opportunities in the final third.
Forward play, linking the midfield, movement, timing and opportunities in the final third.
A fine example of holistic player development from MP Coaching where practical and theoretical, body and mind are all worked for maximal learning and development to take place.  In this... Read more...
Turning Final Third Entries Into Goals: The Secret to Breaking Down Low Blocks
Turning Final Third Entries Into Goals: The Secret to Breaking Down Low Blocks
The Modern Challenge: Chaos into Control As modern football evolves, defensive discipline and team structure are becoming tighter than ever. Success is increasingly defined by the ability to convert final... Read more...
The English FA’s 3v3 Football Initiative: A Game-Changer for Youth Development
The English FA’s 3v3 Football Initiative: A Game-Changer for Youth Development
In a bold move to reshape grassroots football, the English Football Association (FA) has unveiled its FutureFit initiative, introducing a 3v3 format for Under-7 players starting in the 2026–27 season.... Read more...
MP Coaching and Burnley FC: A Premier League Experience
MP Coaching and Burnley FC: A Premier League Experience
This summer, Mike Phelan Coaching hosted its inaugural Premier League Experience camp in partnership with Burnley Football Club. The event took place at Burnley’s Barnfield Training Centre and the Whitehough... Read more...