Your training doesn’t stop when practice ends.
Vanguard is a virtual football development programme for young players: structured training, clear goals, verified stats and progress tracking. The ultimate supplement to every form of football training you already do.
Team training only goes so far.
Your club, school team and coach give you the team environment. Improving your own game takes extra work on top of all of it, and that work needs structure and consistency.
Team sessions serve the team
Training is planned around the whole squad, so your own weak foot or first touch may not get the time it needs.
Extra work needs direction
Without a plan, training on your own turns into random drills with no clear purpose.
Progress is hard to prove
It's difficult to know what's working, or show anyone your improvement, when none of it is tracked or verified.
Your club gives you the team. Vanguard helps develop you.
One system for everything outside team training.
Vanguard is a virtual football development programme. Train with purpose, work on your goals, learn the game, verify your stats and see your progress, all in one app.
The supplement to all your football. Vanguard doesn’t replace your club, academy, school team, coach or individual training. It sits alongside every one of them and adds structure around them.
Train with purpose.
Individual sessions and structured programmes you can do on your own time, each one focused on a specific part of your game.
- Individual training sessions
- Structured training programmes
- Football challenges to keep you going between sessions
- Training homework to reinforce what you're working on
Work on the parts of your game that matter.
Set development goals, choose your focus areas and always know what to work on next. It's your development, so you stay in control of it.
- Development goals you set and work towards
- Focus areas across passing, first touch, scanning, finishing and more
- A clear next step, so training never feels random
- More ownership over how you improve
Understand the game, not just the drills.
Football education that builds tactical understanding, positional knowledge and game intelligence, so you make better decisions on the pitch.
- Tactical understanding explained clearly
- Positional knowledge for the role you play
- Game intelligence and decision making
- Regular new content to keep learning
Share your football. Get verified stats.
Send your videos to Vanguard and get verified stats from your footage. Your improvement is backed by real numbers, whether the footage is from matches, club training or your own sessions.
- Share your videos with Vanguard
- Get verified stats from your footage
- Verified stats sit on your player profile
- Real numbers to back up your development
See your progress.
Your player profile brings your goals, focus areas, completed challenges and verified stats together, so progress isn't guesswork and you can see how far you've come.
- Progress across every focus area
- Verified stats from the videos you share
- Your development goals and how they're going
- Completed challenges and training homework in one place
Everything in one place.
The Vanguard app brings your training, goals, learning and progress together, so there's one place to open whenever you want to work on your game.
Fits around every kind of football you play.
Vanguard is the supplement to all of it. It works around your club training, matches, school and everything else in your week.
One monthly membership.
Membership gives you access to the Vanguard app and everything inside it. It’s the supplement to all your football, sitting alongside your club, academy, coach and individual training.
Vanguard Membership
R100/ month
- Vanguard app access
- Individual training sessions
- Training programmes
- Football challenges
- Development goals
- Player profile
- Share videos and get verified stats
- Progress tracking
- Football education
- Training homework
- Regular new content
- Development resources
Questions, answered.
Is Vanguard a replacement for club training?
No. Vanguard is the supplement to all your football and sits alongside your club, academy, school team and coach. It gives you a structured way to keep developing outside normal training, and doesn't replace any of it.
Who is Vanguard for?
Young footballers who want to keep improving outside team training, and their parents. Whether you play for a club, an academy or a school team, Vanguard gives you a plan for the extra work.
Do I need access to a football pitch?
Vanguard is built around individual training, so it doesn't rely on a full pitch or a team. A ball and a bit of space is the starting point.
Can I use Vanguard alongside private coaching?
Yes. Vanguard is built to work alongside private and individual coaching. Use it to keep working on your goals in between coaching sessions.
What ages is Vanguard for?
Vanguard is designed for youth players. Content is organised by area of the game, so players can work on what matters to them at their own level.
What do I get with membership?
Access to the Vanguard app, including individual training sessions, training programmes, football challenges, development goals, your player profile and progress tracking. You can also share your videos to get verified stats, and you get football education, training homework, development resources and regular new content.
What are verified stats?
You can share your videos with Vanguard and get verified stats from your footage. They sit on your player profile, so your development is backed by real numbers rather than guesswork.
How much does membership cost?
Vanguard membership is R100 per month.
How does the app work?
The app is where everything lives: your training and programmes, challenges, development goals, learning content and player profile. Open it, pick up where you left off and see your progress over time.
Take control of your development.
Your football, your development, your journey. R100 a month. Tell us about the player and we'll be in touch with the next steps for joining Vanguard.