For the future of football.

We believe that investing in youth and talent development is the only way to create sustainable success. We are there to help football organisations who share this believe. We are your dedicated and professional partner to help raise standards in talent development.

Context and environment are highly influential on how talent develops. We apply that insight in our services. With more than 15 years of experience in assessing and consulting youth academies in football and other sports we developed a unique and tailor-made approach.

Whether it’s for a (con)federation, league or club, we provide the necessary insights and guidelines to drastically improve the overall quality of your organisation and talent development system, regardless of level, ranking or size. Each partnership requires a unique and tailor-made approach that matches with your ambitions, challenges, culture and context. We believe that’s how we can cooperate successfully.

We have helped numerous sports organisations realise their ambitions.

Wouter Kuperus
CEO NMC Bright

How can we help?

Improvement starts here. Please select your type of organisation and the service you are seeking.

Objectively measure the quality of youth academies.

In order to improve you need to measure the quality of youth academies. We perform assessments of youth academies based on our customised frameworks. Our frameworks fit your context, developmental phase and regulations.

What we do:

Designing a (licensing) framework
Accreditation and certification procedures
Assessments

Continuous improvement in youth academies.

Using quality frameworks is extremely useful to identify areas in which youth academies excel and areas in which they can improve. However, our experience in licensing and assessments taught us that once organisations have a good grasp of the quality of their youth academy, it is more valuable to put the focus on development. That's why we offer developmental and educational services.

What we do:

Expert sessions
Talent development programmes
Educational programmes
Developing a strategy
Project management

In-depth insight.

To identify the marginal gains in improving youth academies you need to ask the right questions and support conclusions with data. By providing clubs with (data-driven) research we help them identify key areas for improvement.

What we do:

Learning environment survey
Benchmarking
360⁰ feedback

Do you know the strengths and points of improvement for your academy?

We help you to get a good grasp of the quality of your academy by assessing your club or academy in a short period of time with the best (football) experts.

What we do:

Assessments
Learning Environment Tool
360⁰ Feedback Tool

We support your search for continuous improvement.

We help you developing and implementing policy by assisting you on the most crucial aspects of a successful academy.

What we do:

Developing a strategy
Football Philosophy
Recruitment & Talent Identification

It’s all about educating football coaches and leaders.

We help you educating coaches with our network of experts and based on the courses of the Royal Dutch Football Federation (KNVB).

What we do:

Coach education
Academy Directors Courses

Our partners

NMC Bright & HAN – University of Applied Sciences are partners in the Talent Identification in Sport course


NMC Bright is the strategic partner of the KNVB in auditing and reviewing youth academies in professional and amateur football.


NMC Bright is the strategic partner of the AVB for the development of football.


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