Field manual

Scouting & recruitment guides

How modern recruitment actually works — written for the clubs, scouts and players using SCOUTVERSE. No jargon, no filler.

Both

How football scouting reports work

What goes into a professional football scouting report, how recruitment departments read one, and how AI-assisted reports change the workflow.

Read · 6 min

Players

How to get scouted as a footballer

What clubs and scouts actually look for in a player profile, what footage to submit, and how to make yourself findable online without an agent.

Read · 7 min

Clubs & scouts

AI scouting vs traditional scouting

An honest comparison of data-led and network-led recruitment: what each is good at, where each fails, and why serious departments run both.

Read · 6 min

Clubs & scouts

Signing free agents: a recruitment guide

How clubs find, assess and sign out-of-contract players: when to move, what to check, and how to avoid the classic free-transfer mistakes.

Read · 5 min

Clubs & scouts

Building a club recruitment shortlist

A repeatable process for turning a squad gap into a ranked, budgeted, actionable shortlist — and keeping it current through a transfer window.

Read · 6 min

Both

Player data, safeguarding and consent

How player data should be handled in modern recruitment: consent for minors, lawful basis, access control and what clubs should expect from any platform.

Read · 5 min

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