Talent Scout for the English Football Association
Manchester, United Kingdom
Danielle has almost 20 years’ experience working within elite sport as both a performance analyst (PA) and professional football scout. She has been teaching for over 17 years across numerous universities in the UK and ROI within the area of sports coaching and sports science. In addition to working full time within education, Danielle has always worked as a practitioner in both PA based roles for a variety of professional football clubs including Manchester United as a professional academy scout working in talent identification from U12-23 age groups, and the FA with England Lionesses.
She is qualified to Level 2 in Talent Identification and has obtained ISPAS accreditation at Level 4. Her academic qualifications include a PhD from The University of Central Lancashire in Employability, an MA in Sports Coaching and a PGCert in Teaching and Learning in the higher education sector, which also allowed her to be granted fellowship status with The Higher Education Academy.
Danielle has developed programmes for the PFSA and the universities in which she has worked including the world’s first course in Analysis and Recruitment in Women’s Football and also the first MSc course in the UK for scouting at UCFB.
Danielle was also awarded the unsung hero award at The Northwest Football Awards 2024 for her work across both men's and women’s football.
