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British club youth training ranking: Chelsea tops the list for three consecutive years, Arsenal and Manchester United ranked second and third

5:57pm, 10 September 2025【Football】

September 9th, the British club youth training camp rankings were released, Chelsea ranked first for three consecutive years, followed by Arsenal and Manchester United. The list launched by

is evaluated based on the players trained by the clubs' youth training camps in England's top 5 leagues (Premier League, Championship, English League One, English League Two and British National League) and the remaining four leagues (La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1) at least once, thus achieving a relatively objective ranking. The higher the level of the game players participate in, the greater the weight. If a player is trained by multiple youth training camps, those youth training camps will share points.

Chelsea are able to maintain the top spot mainly because the players they have developed perform well in the highest level of games. In the 2024-25 season, they had 18 players trained by the youth training camp debuted in the five major leagues. Also last season, six youth training camp players made their debut in the Premier League for Chelsea's first team.

The top 20 rankings of British club youth training camps are as follows:

1, Chelsea: 187.99 points

2, Arsenal: 157.2 points

3, Manchester United: 138.34 points

4, Everton: 135.38 points

5, Manchester City: 127.37 points

6, Tottenham Hotspur: 126.11 points

7, Liverpool: 111.63 points

8, West Ham United: 105.94 points

9, Southampton: 96.95 points

10, Sheffield United: 94.45 points

11, Leeds United: 83.31 points

12, West Brom: 82.15 points

13, Villa: 81.82 points

14, Reading: 75.45 points

15, Fulham: 74.95 points

16, Middlesbrough: 74.73 points

17, Sunderland: 71.07 points

18, Blackburn: 68.27 points

19, Norwich: 60.49 points

20, Leicester City: 59.11 points