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Episode 56: Tofa Fakunle, Cavalry FC
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tofa Fakunle is currently the assistant General Manager at Canadian Premier League cub, Cavalry FC. Before this current role, he was the football ope...
Episode 55: Ricardo Moreira, Orlando City
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ricardo Moreira currently is General Manager and Sporting Director at MLS club Orlando City SC. Now in his 7th year at Orlando, Ricardo joined from a...
Episode 54: Ryan Beal, Sentient Sports
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Beale is the CEO and co-founder of sports AI company Sentient Sports. After completing a degree in computer science, Ryan went on to do a PhD in...
Episode 53: Nikos Overheul, formerly Vancouver Whitecaps, Statsbomb, Brentford FC
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nikos Overheul is an experienced football scouting and strategy professional who has spent time working with various clubs around the world. Nikos wa...
Episode 52: David Ray, Plymouth Argyle
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Ray is currently Head of Finance at Championship football club, Plymouth Argyle. His role is a really interesting one, as it seems he is much ...
Episode 51: Gregg Broughton, Chicago Fire FC
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gregg Broughton is the new Sporting Director at MLS side Chicago Fire, having previously held the same role at Blackburn Rovers FC in the English Cham...
Episode 50: Devin Pleuler, Maple Leaf Sports
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Devin Pleuler is currently director of research and development at Toronto based multi-club ownership group, MLSE. Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment ...
Episode 49: Special Edition - How to buy a football club (Analytics FC x Ankura)
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This month, Analytics FC teams up with Ankura Consulting Group, an independent global expert services and advisory firm, to discuss the process and pi...
Episode 48: Dan Micciche, Ex-England, Arsenal and Spurs Coach
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month, Alex spoke to Dan Micciche. Dan is widely regarded as a coaching innovator whose career has encompassed stints at the FA, coaching England...
Episode 47: Special Edition - Brexitball Report with Andy Watson and John Kiely
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we spoke to Brexitball expert Andy Watson and immigration lawyer and senior partner at Fragomen LLP, John Kiely, about Analytics FC's grou...
Episode 46: Mike D'Auria, Second Spectrum
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we spoke to Mike D’Auria, Chief Commercial Officer at Second Spectrum, a tracking and analytics provider working in, among others, the N...
Episode 45: Elliott Stapley, Sports Interactive and Football Manager
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we spoke to Elliott Stapley, a software engineer working on the match engine and data for Sports Interactive’s Football Manager game. D...
Episode 44: David Sumpter, Uppsala University and Twelve Football
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we spoke to David Sumpter. David is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Uppsala University, the author of a number of books about data ana...
Episode 43: Justinas Gasiunas, First Team Goalkeeping Coach at Hajduk Split
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we spoke to Justinas Gasiunas, the first-team goalkeeping coach at Hajduk Split. After ending his career as a goalkeeper, Justinas has c...
Episode 42: Kim McCauley, Director of Analytics at Angel City FC
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we spoke to Kim McCauley, Director of Analytics at Angel City Football Club. Starting off working in the media, Kim has spent the last yea...
Episode 41: Oliver Seitz, Business Intelligence Director at United World
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we spoke to Oliver Seitz, business intelligence director of United World. During his career, Oliver has worked with agents and clubs, he...
Episode 40: Richard Battle, Founding Director of Left Field Football Consulting
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we spoke to Richard Battle, founding director of Left Field Football Consulting. In the conversation, we talked about the processes of imp...
Episode 39: Peter McKeever, StatsPerform - Visualising Data
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jon spoke to Peter McKeever, Data analyst at StatsPerform and Data Visualisation Editor for Opta’s new website, The Analyst. In their co...
Episode 38: Oliver Gage, Canadian Premier League - Doing Analysis within a League
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jon spoke to Oliver Gage, the director of football for the Canadian Premier League. Originally from Sheffield, Oliver’s career has carri...
Episode 37: Hugo Schoukens and Jo Van Hoecke, Double Pass - Assessing Academies
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we spoke to Hugo Schoukens and Jo van Hoecke, the co-founders of Double Pass, a Belgian company that assesses, advises and educates (con)fe...
Episode 36: Alex Farnell - The Impact of Head Coaches on Performance
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we spoke to Alex Farnell, an economics researcher at the University of Lancaster looking into labour markets and issues to do with personne...
Episode 35: Tal Brown, Zone7 - How Predictable Are Injuries?
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jon spoke to Tal Brown, co-founder and CEO of Zone7. We talked about the problem of predicting injuries in sport, the impact of coronavirus...
Episode 34: Tom Worville - Analytics and the Media
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the Analytics FC podcast, we’ll be putting out episodes every month with a thematic focus from using data to analyse injuries to quantifying the ...
Episode 33: Christofer Clemens (German National Team)
15 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Joel and Jeremy are joined by Christofer Clemens, the German national team's head of match analysis and scouting. Tweet us! www.twitter.com/Analytics...
Episode 32, Part 2: Xarius Desai (Brentford)
05 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We put your twitter questions to Brentford FC's Xarius Desai! Check out our previous podcast with Xarius here: https://soundcloud.com/analytics-fc-pod...
Episode 32, Part 1: Xarius Desai (Brentford)
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In which we chat to Xarius Desai, performance analyst at Brentford FC, about his role and football analysis more broadly. Tweet us! www.twitter.com/A...
Episode 31: Rory Campbell (West Ham United)
04 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we met Rory Campbell, Head of Technical Analysis at West Ham. Tweet us! www.twitter.com/AnalyticsFC --------------- Find Joel and Bobby ...
Episode 30: Rene Maric (Red Bull Salzburg)
20 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by Red Bull Salzburg and Spielverlagerung's Rene Maric! Tweet us! www.twitter.com/AnalyticsFC --------------- Links from the...
Episode 29: New Season - Introductions
19 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Beginning of the new season. In Season 2 Episode 1 of the Analytics FC Podcast we introduce Joel Salamon and Jeremy Steele to the team. Follow us! ht...
Episode 28: Michael Caley and Mike Goodman
07 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 28 of the Analytics FC Podcast we are joined by Michael Caley and Mike Goodman to discuss their new podcast (The Double Pivot), the recent ...
Episode 27: David Sumpter
05 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 27 of the Analytics FC Podcast we are joined by David Sumpter, author of Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game, to di...
Episode 26: Uncut
25 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 26 of the Analytics FC Podcast we take your questions from Twitter. Remember this isn't edited, you were warned! --------------- Links fr...
Episode 25: Paul Riley
16 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 25 of the Analytics FC podcast we are joined by blogger Paul Riley. We talk to Paul about his recent work about picking a data-driven Engla...
Episode 24: Jen Lute Costella
09 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 24 of the Analytics FC Podcast we are joined by Jen Lute Costella, co-founder of hockey analytics consultancy LCG Analytics. We talk about ...
Episode 23: Thom Lawrence
18 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 23 of the Analytics FC Podcast we are joined by Thom Lawrence, blogger over at http://deepxg.com/. We talk about Thom’s wayward entry int...
Episode 22: Sam Jackson
09 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 22 of the Analytics FC Podcast we are joined by goalkeeper analytics blogger, Sam Jackson. We talk about the important qualities Sam looks ...
Episode 21: Sean Ingle
01 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 21 of the Analytics FC Podcast we are joined by Sean Ingle, senior sports writer and columnist at the Guardian. We discuss journalism, data...
Episode 20: Simon Gleave
27 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Guess who’s back! In Episode 20 of the Analytics FC Podcast we are joined by Simon Gleave, Head of Analysis at Infostrada Sports. We discuss Simon...
Episode 19: Tom Payne
30 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 19 of the Analytics FC podcast we are joined by Huddersfield Town performance analyst and Spielverlagerung and New York Red Bulls writer To...
Episode 18: Debate Edition
20 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 18 of the Analytics FC podcast we debate a number of topics back and forth, including "Teams should sell players that outperform expected g...
Episode 17: Damien Comolli
13 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 17 of the Analytics FC podcast we briefly discuss the new Analytics FC consultancy and then welcome former Liverpool and Tottenham Director...
Episode 16: Fanalyst Roundtable
03 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 16 of the Analytics FC Podcast the boys are joined by fellow analysts Ben Torvaney and Bobby Gardiner to shamelessly plug their recent work...
Episode 15: Michael Caley
26 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 15 of the Analytics FC Podcast we are joined by Michael Caley to talk about his new Expected Goals model, what it contains, what teams it l...
Episode 14: Allison McCann
20 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 14 of the Analytics FC Podcast we are joined by Allison McCann, visual journalist at FiveThirtyEight, to talk about the new CARMELO rating ...
Episode 13: Michael Cox
16 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 13 of the Analytics FC Podcast we are joined by Michael Cox (writer at Zonal Marking, The Guardian and ESPN FC among others) to talk about ...
Episode 12: Gab Marcotti
13 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 12 of the Analytics FC Podcast we are joined by journalist Gab Marcotti to talk about the recent anti-stats pieces, analytics in the mainst...
Episode 08: A Mixed Bag
08 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 08: A Mixed Bag by Analytics FC
Episode 04: Womens World Cup Preview with Emily Dulhanty and Danny Page
08 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 04: Womens World Cup Preview with Emily Dulhanty and Danny Page by Analytics FC
Episode 02: Ben Torvaney
08 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 02: Ben Torvaney by Analytics FC
Episode 11: Second Podcast Syndrome with Bobby Gardiner and Ben Torvaney
06 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 11 of the Analytics FC podcast, we're joined by Bobby Gardiner and Ben Torvaney, two fellow analytics bloggers (and students!) We discuss ...
Episode 10: Ryan Bahia
29 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 10! Thanks to everyone who's listened to and shared the podcast so far, we're thrilled to have made it this far! In this episode we talk with...
Episode 09: Joel Salamon
15 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We're back! In Episode 09 of the Analytics FC podcast we are joined by Messi Minutes/Seconds himself Joel Salamon to talk smart clubs, smart transfers...
Episode 07: Dustin Ward
29 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 07 of the Analytics FC Podcast Sam and Tom are joined by Dustin Ward aka Saturdays on Couch. Before Dustin joins us we talk about the Wome...
Episode 06: Mike L. Goodman
22 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 06 of the Analytics FC Podcast Sam and Tom are joined by Grantland staff writer Mike L. Goodman. We discuss Mike’s role at Grantland and...
Episode 05: Dan Altman
15 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 05 of the Analytics FC podcast Tom and Sam are joined by Dan Altman - economist, writer and founder of North Yard Analytics. We talk abou...
Episode 03: Omar Chaudhuri
02 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 03 of the Analytics FC Podcast Sam and Tom are joined by Omar Chaudhuri, Head of Football Intelligence at 21st Club. We discuss Omar's bac...
Episode 01: Introductions and Richard Whittall
04 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In the inaugural Analytics FC Podcast we introduce ourselves and interview freelance journalist Richard Whittall about the change he's seen in analyti...