CONSULTANCY

FIRST TEAM CONSULTANCY

We assist in establishing a professional structure within your professional team.

ACADEMY CONSULTANCY

PL FOOTBALL can assist your club in organizing a professional football academy.

SCOUTING CONSULTANCY

PL FOOTBALL can assist the club in organizing their own scouting department.

TOTAL CLUB CONSULTANCY

Want to make the next step in your football development, PL FOOTBALL can assist you to go in to the right direction.

DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Like to organize any special activities, player, team or club development related you can also use PL FOOTBALL.

Coaching

COACHING THE COACHES IS IMPORTANT IF YOU WANT MAXIMUM PLAYER DEVELOPMENT!
The coaching section of PL-Football is focusing on assisting football coaches or a single football coach to find the right direction for a long coaching career in (Youth) football. We will be able to develop coaches for average level or elite football level. With the structure that will be taught it is possible to see it as the foundation of the coach’s coaching career and then you have to add your own thoughts.

BASIC FOOTBALL COACHING

Here we focus in teaching coaches with or without a coaching license a clear structure. The basic football coaching lessons will bring a coach to the level where he can lead and organize his team during training sessions.
BASIC GROUP COACHING & BASIC INDIVIDUAL COACHING
1. Organize your team or player
2. Direct your thoughts into a philosophy
3. Philosophy for training and playing
4. Practical sessions

ELITE-FOOTBALL COACHING

This we organize at PL-Football as an advanced coach’s education opportunity.
We educate the coach and show him all phases that are possible in elite player development and teach him how to clearly react, organize and lead an elite session.
ELITE GROUP COACHING & ELITE INDIVIDUAL COACHING
1. Organize your Elite team or player
2. Direct your thoughts into an Elite philosophy
3. Philosophy for elite playing
4. Philosophy for elite training
5. Philosophy for training in small groups

The contents for the lessons of Basic football coaching & Elite football coaching will be customized for a group of coaches or an individual coach.
Contact PL-Football with your request.

NEWS

NEW IN PL FOOTBALL application

27.03.2020

Hi All, New in PL Football will be the section within the training exercises; Tactical Training. The exercises are prepared as a specific situation that you as a c coach can prepare for your team. It will improve the knowledge of your players about how you want them to play in all key moments. As a coach you are responsible for sharing with your... more

ABOUT US

Patrick J. van Leeuwen

Nationality: Dutch

Date of Birth: 08-08-1969

Place of Birth: Assen, The Netherlands

Patrick van Leeuwen is founder and owner of PL-Football consultancy. Allready at a young age football was important part of his life. When He was playing football in a local team He was invited at a certain moment to join a professional club, Sparta Rotterdam. When He joined the academy of Sparta Rotterdam He also started to attend the Dutch academy of sports, called CIOS. So for him there were two things very clear at that time, He wanted to play professional football but also secure a social career for after his professional football career. He graduated at the age of 21 from the Dutch academy of Sports with the UEFA A license in football coaching. From that moment He fully concentrated on football and try keep that up as long as possible to get the experience that He could use in his future coaching career. He finished because of an injury at the age of 27 with his professional football career. As planned, when He was younger, He got an invitation to start his coaching career at Feyenoord Rotterdam when He finished playing professional football. Later in his coaching and manager career He obtained the UEFA pro license.

Patrick has a large network of external international experienced consultants at his immediate disposal. In this way he is able to meet all requirements made by international clients and bring them to more success.

Career

As player

	1985 — 1994 Player FC Sparta Rotterdam
	1994 — 1996 Player FC Helmond Sport

Feyenoord Academy

1996-1997 — Coach U/11 (Assistant U / 9 — U/12)

1997-1998 — Coach U/11 (Assistant U / 9, U/12, U/16 and U/23)

1998-1999 — Coach U/15 (assistant U/16)

1999-2000 — Coach U/14 (assistant U/16 and U/19)

2000-2001 — Coach U/14

2001-2002 — Coach of the project in China

2002-2003 — Assistant U/16

2003-2004 — Coach U/15

2004-2005 — Coach U/13

2005-2006/january — Manager International ProjectsFeyenoord

Shakhtar Donetsk

2006-2013 — Head of the Academy of Shakhtar Donetsk

FC Kairat

2013- January 2016 Sport Director of FC Kairat

Maccabi Tel Aviv FC

1 July 2016- Maccabi Tel Aviv FC

Performance Director

Education

	Dutch Academy of Sport
	UEFA Pro License

Responsibilities

1. Coaching a team

2. Assisting other coaches

3. Organize an academy

4. Select coaches for the academy

5. Educate coaches of the academy

6. Organize a scouting department

7. Select scouting personal

8. Organize international tournaments

9. Organize coaches congresses

10. Set up a first team organization

11. Create a network of football agents

12. Scouting professional players

13. To organize the football department of the club

14. To organize the budget of the football department

INTERVIEWS

Playermaker: Building the football philosophy at the most decorated club in Israel: Maccabi Tel Aviv

06.07.2019

Patrick van Leeuwen was brought into Maccabi Tel Aviv to turn the youth department and academy into one of the best in the world and to ensure that the club’s footballing philosophy was represented at all ages. Patrick recognised that the... more

MEGA INTERVIEW: Patrick van Leeuwen about Maccabi Tel Aviv FC Academy philosphy!

02.02.2019

VAN LEEUWEN: GOLDHAR’S INVESTMENT WILL REPAY ITSELF Maccabi’s Youth Department Manager in an interview: “Israeli football doesn’t value talent”, “There was difficulty in embedding a way to people who are certain they know more", "without... more

e-learning

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Hi,

The e-learning section of PL-Football has changed. The information about my football philosophy that previously was presented in e-books is now also available as an application. The e-books describe the football philosophy at FC Shakhtar Donetsk and FC Kairat Almaty and the application will show you how to come to an organized training session.

The application “PL-Football” is available in the apple app store and the google play store the e-books are available at amazon.com.

The new application will give you an insight in the football philosophy, the structure of the training session and multiple examples of exercises that will guide you and assist you in your work as a coach. The application and the e-books are available in Russian and English language.

With kind regards, Patrick van Leeuwen

BLOG

Re-set your football philosophy

What we are trying to do at PL-Football with our football activities is to influence your thoughts about football. To many times I hear that football is just a sport! I think a sport needs to be played well and organized! At all levels the intention should be to enjoy and to play as good as you can! Reaching maximum potential as a... more
Football without football

What kind of impression it gives you; “Football without football?” Well, as a football academy manager, I can tell you that when football is your profession it still keeps you busy during the days of Corona. Where the hope at first was that maybe we would still finish the season, we can conclude that the season of youth football will be... more
Goals and dreams

A new year started, a new season started or the second half of the season started but most important is that your energy will focus you on your goal for this year but also bringing you closer to your dreams as a club, coach or football player. We need to set goals this year that will improve us at the end of this season or year. The goal will... more
Connection between the academy and First team

First team and academies need to connect, Clubs need to add to their philosophy a clear movement of players from the academy to the first team. When is a player ready? When should he be ready but most important does the club create opportunities for these young talented players that are the future of the club? At this moment clubs wake up... more
Amazing future ahead

I thought the changes that I have created, together with all coaches, for football clubs by influencing their thoughts about the academy philosophy , the players that they produced and the level that those players are performing at gave them a foundation for the years to come. The Champions league, europa league and national team qualifications for EC... more
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH FOOTBALL?

Development compensation is common in most of the European football countries. In all countries it is clear at what age it starts. If clubs start their serious development from the age that compensation start, they could lose a lot of quality development time. Therefore, is it not honest that if you invest early, you should be compensated from the moment... more
TACTICAL FLEXIBILITY

What do we mean with the words “Tactical flexibility”in football? One coach thinks it means that a team should be able to play different systems in a competition; the second coachwill say that he wants his team to be able to change systems during a match; the third coachwill say that he wants his team to be able to be... more
Coaching the coaches

How to coach the coaches, is something that is important when working as an Academy Director or Sport Director. As club management your director has a role of following the philosophy and maintain the direction that has been set by the club, with the intention to strengthen it. The club can also give the Academy Director or Sport Director the opportunity... more
Reserve teams; U21; u23?

Whatever the name of a team is that comes after the academy but before the first team is not the most important in this discussion. That you have a team in the age between 18-21 is what counts. This important step, before a player really makes it is as a professional, will give so much to the career of most players. The opportunity to get used... more
Coaches development; club policy or the responsibility of a coach?

A short holiday break in your weekly activities as a football academy gives coaches a chance to rest or to develop themselves. To develop themselves a coach has several ways: by the activities of the federation, activities organized by the club or the coach can organize his own activities. The federation needs to take care of the official... more
Confirmation or recognition?

When you work in football, and have worked in different clubs you always keep looking over your shoulder what goes on in your previous clubs. In my case I still follow the clubs I played for and the last years the clubs where I organized the football departments. FC Shakhtar Donetsk and FC Kairat Almaty are the clubs that I follow with interest. A... more
YOUTH FOOTBALL DEVELOPMENT

To start a new position at a football club is always exiting. You have little information of the club but you always want to make an impression from the first moment you enter. The normal procedure would be, or if you want to buy yourself some time, to evaluate for a few weeks the situation within the club and then you start making your changes. For... more
Why not all club owners follow a plan?

To answer this question, you need to analyze why these people want to be involved in football. Do they want to make money by selling players? Do they have the knowledge to coach a team? Or do they think that they have the knowledge after a few years involved in football? Or they just want to show off that they own a football club? A lot of club live... more
A NEW COACH? HOW TO SELECT?

At a certain moment a club will need to start searching for a new coach. This can be because of different reasons: A previous coach his contract is expired and the club would like to sign a new coach; a coach would like to make the next step in his career and moves to a different club when his contract is finished; a coach is fired due to bad results; a... more
Club databases: are they a useful tool?

In academies it is important that there is communication with coaches on a daily bases. It is not only important to talk with them face to face but also offering them the tools to be accurate in their work over a longer period. I am referring to databases within clubs that are managed by all coaches of the academy, medical staff, video analysts... more
Pre-season Training camps

The opening blog will be dedicated to the pre-season camps that all football clubs are organizing before the start of the season. At this moment I am working in Kazakhstan. The championship is from March until November. That means that all teams in Kazakhstan are preparing in the months of December, January and February. These months most of the teams... more
Selecting a team

Within the training camps (I wrote about training camps in the first blog) a coach is trying to bring his team into balance. Bringing a team into balance means that you are selecting the qualities that the coach thinks he needs to create a good team. What is a coach looking for in his team? Every coach is different in selecting the qualities that... more
What do the best football clubs have in common?

At this moment in football a lot of clubs are privately owned. This not only means smaller clubs became big because of only the input of money but also the former clubs with a good history are under control of new owners. When a smaller club becomes big, I think it means that they would like to stay on the top of the league and not be there for a few... more