COACH REPORT 24/25 COACHINSIDE
England Premier League, Championship, League One, Women's Super League
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COACH REPORT 24/25
What does the COACHINSIDE Coach Report 2024/2025 include?
This report presents a data-driven analysis of coaching performances across all English football leagues during the 2024/25 season. For each league included: Three standout coaches are profiled in detail, highlighting their tactical impact, results, and data trends.
Additionally, Top 3 coaches are ranked across various performance categories such as points per game, expected goals (xG) metrics, defensive solidity, and team improvement indicators. Which values and indices are included in Report 24/25?
The Coach Report 2024/25 includes the six key COACHINSIDE Trainer Indexes, which provide a multidimensional view of coaching performance across all leagues: Development Index, Expectation Index, Change Index, Constant Index, Age Index and Tactical Index. Definitions and calculation methods for each index can be found in the appendix of this report. In addition to these core indexes, the report also features complementary data metrics, e.g. U23 playing time, xG, Games turned around and others
Which leagues are shown in the Trainer Report 24/25?
We cover the following competitions: Premier League, Championship, League One, Women's Super League. Which data suppliers support us?
HUDL, IMPECT, DFL, HEIMSPIEL
PREMIER LEAGUE TOP-COACHES
COACH PERFORMANCE 2024/2025
ARNE SLOT
Won the championship with Liverpool FC
Best offense in the league: 86 goals scored and XG of 2.26 are top values Also leads the league rankings in clean sheets and turned games
12% of playing time spent by U23 players
Preferred game style Ball
Possession
MIKEL ARTETA
Finished the season as 2nd with Arsenal FC
Best defense in the league: 34 goals conceded and an XG Against of 1 are league top values
Positive Change Index: 8.2/10
9% of playing time spent by U23 players
Football Impact: Pep Guardiola
THOMAS FRANK
Finished the season with Brentford FC in 10th place
Expectation Index of 9/10: Frank achieved better results than expected
Positive Development Index of 6.5/10
11% of playing time spent by U23 players
Football Impact: Dean Smith
COACH RANKINGS (TOP 3)
PREMIERLEAGUE24/25
Possession
DevelopmentIndex
ExpectedGoals
ExpectationIndex
COACH RANKINGS (TOP 3)
PREMIERLEAGUE24/25
TurnedGames
PPDA
PlayingTimeU23
ExpectedGoalsAgainst
CHAMPIONSHIP TOP-COACHES
COACH PERFORMANCE 2024/2025
DANIEL FARKE
Won the championship with Leeds United and thus promoted to the Premier League
Best offense in the league: 95 goals scored and XG of 2.15 mean league top values
Further best values in XG Against (0.68) and Packing Offensive
Positive Change Index with 9.2/10
Playing time U23 players: 8%
SCOTT PARKER
Finished the season as 2nd and promoted to the Premier League
With only 16 goals conceded, the best defense in the league
Clean sheets: 30x - league best
With a positive Development Index of 6.7/10
Playing time U23 players: 41%
Football Impact: Ranieri, Mourinho
GARY ROWETT
Took over in December 2024 and led Oxford United to a 17th-place finish, securing survival in their first season after promotion
During his tenure, the team recorded 9 clean sheets – the fourth-best value in the league Development Index: 10/10 – Rowett delivered results that exceeded expectations
COACH RANKINGS (TOP 3)
CHAMPIONSHIP24/25
Possession
DevelopmentIndex
ExpectedGoals
ExpectationIndex
COACH RANKINGS (TOP
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TurnedGames
PPDA
PlayingTimeU23
ExpectedGoalsAgainst
LEAGUE ONE TOP-COACHES
COACH PERFORMANCE 2024/2025
CHRIS DAVIES
Won the League One title with Birmingham City – 111 points from 46 matches
Struck an excellent balance between attack and defense: Birmingham scored the most goals and conceded the fewest in the league
Posted the highest average possession of all teams at 64.7%
Football Impact: Ange Postecoglou
PHIL PARKINSON
Guided Wrexham AFC to a secondplace finish and promotion to the Championship Expectation Index: 10/10 – Parkinson exceeded all expectations
Recorded 24 clean sheets – the best defensive record in the league
Second fewest goals conceded in the league
Playing time U23 players: 11%
RICHIE WELLENS
Finished the season with Leyton
Orient in 6th place, narrowly missing out on promotion in the playoffs
Expectation Index: 9/10 – Wellens delivered results above expectations
League-best in Defensive Packing
Scored the second-most goals in the league
Football Impact: Alex Ferguson
COACH RANKINGS (TOP 3)
LEAGUEONE24/25
Possession
DevelopmentIndex
ExpectedGoals
ExpectationIndex
COACH RANKINGS (TOP 3)
LEAGUEONE24/25
TurnedGames
PPDA
PlayingTimeU23
ExpectedGoalsAgainst
WOMEN'S SUPER LEAGUE TOP-COACHES
COACH PERFORMANCE 2024/2025
SONIA BOMPASTOR
Wins the championship with Chelsea FC – 60 points from 22 games
Best defense in the league – only 13 goals conceded and an xG
Against of 0.98
Positive Change Index of 9.6/10
Playing Time U23: 14%
RENÉE SLEGERS
Took over as head coach in October 2024, great 2nd place finish in the league
Highest xG in the league with 2.65 – also the most goals scored
Positive Development Index of 6/10
Playing Time U23: 4%
MARC SKINNER
Finished the season as 3rd with 44 points
Positive Development Index (5.7/10) and Change Index (6.1/10)
Clean Sheets: 13x
Playing Time U23: 20% (3rd highest value in this ranking)
COACH RANKINGS (TOP 3)
Women'sSuperLeague24/25
Possession
DevelopmentIndex
ExpectedGoals
ChangeIndex
COACH RANKINGS (TOP 3)
Women'sSuperLeague24/25
TurnedGames
PPDA
PlayingTimeU23
ExpectedGoalsAgainst
OUR INDEXES AND DEFINITIONS
AGE INDEX
BY COACHINSIDE
The age index is calculated from the average age of the players used. For the calculation, a distinction is made between trainer stations in the professional and junior football. Coaches with stations in youth football show no value here yet all career. This indicator has a descriptive and not an evaluative function. The value is intended to express the extent to which the coach relies on experienced or young players. This is also contrasted with the age value of the squad in order to be able to better classify the value.
CONSTANT INDEX BY COACHINSIDE
The constant index represents a percentage of how often a coach nominally changes his starting eleven compared to the previous game. This indicator has a descriptive and not an evaluative function. It is intended to express the extent to which a coach has found his formation or rotates players and changes playing positions (basis from the third change to the previous week.) This indicator would be at100%ifnoplayerchangesweremade.
TACTICAL INDEX
BY COACHINSIDE
The tactical index represents a percentage of how often a coach changes his tactical formation compared to the previous game. This indicator has a descriptive function and no evaluative function. It is intended to express how much the coach adapts his game system from match day to match day. This indicator would be 100% if no tactical changesweremade.
OUR INDEXES AND DEFINITIONS
EXPECTATION INDEX
BY COACHINSIDE
The expectation index is calculated based on the current table position as the difference to the expected table position. The expected table position results from the respective market value of the team as of the reporting date 01.07. and 01.09. For youth teams, the historical standings of the last 3 years are used. There is currently no expected value for league cup competitions. The change is converted to a scale from 0 to 10 with thresholds of -10 and +6. This means that if a coach exceeds the expected table position by morethan6places,hereceivesanexpectation index of 10 for the respective season. The Expectation Index updates after each match day.
BY COACHINSIDE
The change index measures the coach’s impact on the game. The effects on the result of the game are recorded on the basis of the goal difference until the next substitution event. In the case of a positive player change, the goal difference is lower than before the substitution, the coach receives +1, in the case of a negative change -1. If the goal difference is greater than +2 or -2, the number of points is weighted as 0.5. If a substitute player scores a goal, +2 points will be awarded. This value is transformed into a scale from 0 to 10, based on a minimum value of -2 and a maximum value of 3. To get a change index of 10, the average value of substitution points per game should be equal to or greater than 3.
CHANGE INDEX DEVELOPMENT INDEX
BY COACHINSIDE
The development Index is calculated on the basisoftheteam’sperformanceinthelast15x league games compared to the team’s performance performance, which is determined on the basis of the previous 50x games as the absolute difference between the two results. The Development Index is a weighted average based on the following calculation: X = Goals conceded * 0,2 + , Goals * 0,2 + , Expected Goals * 0,125 + , Expected Goals against * 0,125 + , Duels won * 0,1 + , Passes to the final third * 0,1 +, Ball wins opponent’s half * 0,075 + , Game intensity * 0,075
