THE ACADEMY
Just Football Academy is an elite high performance football academy who provide an enriching holistic football education programme delivered inclusively at its very own football stadium.
The mission is to deliver a first class, market leading education programme for aspiring players to reach their potential. Just Football have a distinct emphasis on educational and academic development for all players to achieve their goals educationally and professionally to the level they aspire to as individuals.
With a clear pathway from our academy to 1st team, we have created an environment where players thrive, develop and perform to enable them to achieve both on the pitch and in the classroom.
Just Football recruit first class, highly qualified and experienced staff, who provide a platform for our players that is unrivalled in the country and boasts an extensive network worldwide to support our players’ journey.
Jamie
FULLARTON
ACADEMY DIRECTOR
Jamie is a former Premier League Footballer and has had a distinguished career in the football sector as a player, coach, manager, technical director and is currently the Head of Emerging Talent at Premier League club Crystal Palace.
Jamie is one of very few professional footballers to have played in Europe and Asia and every division in English football as well as coached in both the UK and EU.
As a coach, Jamie is one of only 500 coaches out of 500,000 to hold a UEFA Pro-Licence, which is 0.1% of all coaches in the UK.
Our Academy Director was hand selected by the English Football Association to study on the Level 5 Technical Directors course, a course that has a biannual cohort of only 12 and is by invitation only. Jamie is one of nine in the world to hold both the Technical Directors qualification and the UEFA Pro-licence.
Jamie also owns and operates his own Semi Professional football clubs and academies both here in the UK as well as in Europe.
Over the years, Jamie has directly coached and placed 63 players globally at various levels in the professional football pyramid, placed 17 players into a US scholarship programme and opened doors to multiple professional positions within the football industry using his high level working network developed over three decades of involvement in professional football that extends to the pinnacle of sport in every pyramid in the world.
Jamie has designed and detailed the coaching syllabus and curriculum whilst overseeing the day to day running of the different centres, ensuring continuity and consistency throughout the organisation.