Academy network platform

Every academy in your network. One pathway for every player.

Cresca runs the day-to-day of youth football academies, from a single club site to hundreds of partner academies on every continent. Coaches plan, register, rate and film at the pitch. Your technical director sees the whole network, in their own language, with every figure traceable to the records behind it.

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Works offline at the pitchSeven languages, Arabic right to leftYour crest, your colours
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7launch languages, each coach chooses their own
6development areas in every player's plan
60 sfor a session change to reach Microsoft Teams
4.5 : 1minimum text contrast, whatever colours you choose
0signal needed to take a register or save a clip
One network, every time zone

Run three academies or three hundred from the same screen.

Each academy works in its own language and its own hours. Head office sees one consistent picture: who is registered, who is training, which plans are published and what is waiting to sync. Select an academy on the map.

Example network · 20 academies

Inside the platform

Built for a coach with ten minutes before the session starts.

Plain screens, sensible defaults and nothing to configure before the first session. Everything a coach records feeds the plans, the reports and the network figures without anyone retyping it.

A development plan every player can read.

Coaches assess all six areas each review period and choose the focus areas. The player sees their own plan in their own language, with the clips their coach sent to it.

  • Technique, tactical, physical, mental health and wellbeing, communication and leadership, ownership and growth mindset
  • Drafts save as you type and stay private until the coach publishes
  • Clips from the video library attach straight to the plan

Select an area in the plan

Global Academy · LisbonU14 · 2012 cohort
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Noah Bensaïd

Left back · U14 · Autumn review period

PublishedShare with player
Development areasNow  Target
ProfileTactical · focus area
Recovery run, 63'
Sent to Tactical · 0:14
Overlap and cross
Sent to Technique · 0:09
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Next review
Fri 12 December
Analysis Studio

Every clip is a scene on a real pitch, in metres.

Coaches film on a phone, clip and tag at the touchline, and send the moment to a player's plan. Analysis Studio goes further: drawings attach to the players themselves, so a ring follows its player and a defensive line reports its gaps in metres. Try the tools on a simulated match.

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Ring a player

Analysis Studio

Select any player. The ring sits on the grass under their feet and follows them until you stop it.

Playback director

A tactical freeze is a list of cues the player follows: pause, move, hold the note, resume.

PlayingFrozenAnimatingHoldingResuming
In the platform today
  • Record on a phone and upload in chunks, even on a weak connection
  • Mark in and out, title and note a passage, send it to a session or a plan
  • Pin clips to the device for offline review at the pitch
  • Video consent checked before any child is tagged
  • Import coded events from your analysis provider and line them up with the footage
Coming in Analysis Studio
  • Clip types, tag groups and one-key code buttons, searchable across the library
  • Rings, spotlights and linked lines that track players from computed positions
  • Tactical freeze: move a player, leave a ghost, replay it with the note
  • A 3D view of the same tracked scene with a free camera
  • Coach mode for team meetings, and MP4 export with graphics
Built for the touchline

No signal at the pitch? Carry on.

Mobile coverage at training grounds is often poor. Cresca keeps the week's sessions, registers and pinned clips on the device and sends changes when signal returns. If somebody else changed the same thing first, nothing is lost: the coach decides which version stays.

Phone signal Online

Turn the signal off, then mark players present or absent on the phone.

U14 · Training · 17:30Take the register
● Online · last synced just now
0 of 8 marked
REGISTER

Registers and match sheets offline

Marks and minutes are kept on the phone and reach the server in order, with the time they were taken.

VIDEO

Film it, upload it later

Record on the phone and upload in chunks that resume where they stopped. Pinned clips play with no connection.

CONFLICTS

Changes waiting, explained

A single screen lists what has not been sent yet, and why, so a coach is never left guessing.

Safeguarding by design

Children's data, handled the way a club's lawyers would want.

Rules about consent, access and small numbers are built into the platform rather than left to a policy document. Nobody has to remember them for them to apply.

Consent travels with the clip

A child can only be tagged in video when their consent allows it. If consent is withdrawn, every clip they appear in is held for review.

Needs attention
Clips on hold after consent was withdrawn: 2

Every look is logged

Opening a child's record, or a list that names children, is written to that academy's access log under the viewer's name.

Access log
Viewed by T. Duarte · Head office · 09:42

Small numbers stay hidden

Network totals withhold any count from 1 to 4 that could single out a child next to an academy's own figures.

National call-ups
Casablanca 6 · Dakar — · Lagos 5

Figures you can audit

Every key figure opens "How this figure was counted", listing the definition and the records behind it.

Plans published · 41 of 52
show how this was counted →

Roles that fit an academy

Coaches see their squads, academy staff see their academy, head office sees the network. Players and guardians see only what is shared with them.

Player view
Only clips sent to their own plan

Data stays in its region

Assistants and storage follow the academy's data region. Where a service is not provisioned, it stays switched off.

Assistant
Not yet available in this data region
Your brand, not ours

Your crest and colours on every screen, from day one.

Choose three colours and the platform generates the full palette, including charts, the top bar and the app icon. If a colour would make text unreadable, it is adjusted until it passes. Try your own club colours.

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Global AcademyU16 · Team overview
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Global Academy U16
22 players · 3 coaches · Head coach K. Diallo
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Active players
22 of 24 places
Average attendance
88%
Games this season
14
Plans published
19
Training minutes per weekLast 10 weeks
PositionsMain position
One platform, room to grow

Start with the academy. Add what your network needs next.

Every module shares the same players, people, permissions and branding, so nothing is entered twice and every new module arrives already in your colours and languages.

crescaAcademy

Squads and birth-year cohorts, sessions, registers, fixtures, line-ups, development plans and season rollover.

IDPsRegistersLine-upsRollover
crescaTalent ID

Scouting activities, a network-wide player database and dated follow-ups from first sighting to first squad.

DatabaseFollow-upsTrials
crescaVideo

A squad video library recorded on phones, clips sent to plans and sessions, offline pinning and consent holds.

ClipsOfflineConsent
crescaWellbeing

Injury records by body part and category, injury history per player, and injury reports across academies.

InjuriesHistoryExplorer
crescaNetwork

Programme overview, achievements and report schedules for head office, with suppression and access logging built in.

ReportsLineageAccess log
crescaStudio

Analysis Studio for tagged clips, tracked graphics, tactical freeze and a 3D view, embedded in the platform or used on its own.

Tracking3DComing next
Assistant

Say it after training. Publish it when you have checked it.

Coaches dictate a session write-up on the walk back to the car. The assistant turns it into a structured draft. Nothing is saved or shared until the coach reads it and confirms.

  • Drafts are always marked as suggestions until a person accepts them
  • Each academy can switch assistants off, and a monthly allowance keeps costs predictable
  • Runs only where the academy's data region allows
Dictating · U14 training write-up

"Good session, pressing triggers on the back pass worked from about twenty minutes in. Noah stepped in well from left back. Yusuf struggled with the recovery runs, follow up with him on Thursday. Two players missing, both ill."

Session write-upSuggested draft
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    See your own academy network on Cresca.

    We set up a private demo in your colours, with your academies on the map and your coaches' languages switched on, and walk your technical and safeguarding leads through it.

    1. Discovery callHow your academies are organised today and what head office needs to see.
    2. Your branded demoYour crest, colours, academies and languages on a private site.
    3. Pilot academiesTwo or three academies live, coaches trained in an afternoon.
    4. Network rolloutFurther academies added in waves, season rollover handled for you.

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