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We attended a “free professional football trial class” after seeing their highly polished Instagram ad showing happy, confident children coached by emotionally intelligent trainers. Unfortunately, the real experience was the complete opposite.

First, there was no clear information about which ground to go to — despite multiple reminders asking us to confirm attendance. At the venue reception, there was no greeting or guidance, just a dismissive “try 8 or 9.”

When we finally found the right ground, my friend’s excited twins went to the gate and waved at the coach to confirm they were in the right place. Instead of a warm welcome, the coach shouted at the child, “Can’t you see we are playing? How did you come in?” The field was overcrowded (40+ kids to one coach) and completely unmonitored.

After an hour-long session where the coach barely interacted with the kids, my friend politely asked how his child performed. In front of 20+ kids and parents, the coach responded rudely, saying the child had a “behaviour problem” and “doesn’t listen,” and declared that he was rejected, i wont accept him — all because he had entered the gate earlier in excitement.

This was humiliating and deeply upsetting for the child, whose confidence was completely shattered. The coach’s tone was arrogant and unprofessional — far from the emotionally intelligent mentors shown in their ads.

If the organisation truly believes in building children’s confidence, they should train their staff properly, ensure DBS checks, and never allow a coach to shame a child publicly. The Instagram video is highly misleading, and if parents saw the reality of how children are treated, no one would sign up.

Parents — please be cautious before booking. A “trial class” should build confidence, not destroy it.

Attended 1st trial session last night 10th Feb down at power league Nottingham NG7 one.
We left 20 minutes in the coaches were not interested at all not engaging with the kids just put them into a match straight away. The coaches are trying to show the players how to do simple ball mastery skills and can’t do them themselves. Didn’t get the kids engaged at all wasn’t fun for them at all very poor !!

My son attended a trial session, but the experience was not good at all , The coaches arrived ten minutes late, there was no welcome or introduction, and the children largely played football by themselves. Like a casual street football , unfortunately One of the coaches spent the entire session walking around with a coffee Overall and it is so unprofesional , completely unprofessional, and both the coaching and learning environment were very poor.

Well done guys . It so sweet watch this little ones playing . You doing a great job they are all into the lessons
Thank you

I should have read the reviews before wasting my time at this place.
Took my son for a trial session, nobody to greet you as stated so had to find our own way to the pitch and then find a staff member ourselves. There was one coach to around 30 kids, he just sent them all off to play football amongst themselves, I told him we there for a trial and he just said "you'll receive an email after the session", that was the only interaction me or my son had with any staff member throughout the whole session.
So off my son goes to follow the other kids and joins in playing football amongst themselves for the majority of the session. At one point they were told to lay cones out and dribble the ball between them but nobody was even watching them, nobody telling them the best way to go about it, where they were going right or wrong, no encouragement, no coaching, absolutely nothing other than a bunch of kids having an unsupervised kick about...which you can do without paying £58 a month.
Never did receive an email from them either, so even if I wanted to sign up to this money grabbing scam I'd have more hassle trying to do so with the lack of communication from them.
Thankfully I didn't fall in to the trap of setting up a direct debit and getting scammed like a lot of the other reviews.

My son attended 3 sessions and started to doubt that this was the right place for him to learn and achieve more skills in football. 2 out of 3 lessons (he missed 1 session) where there wasn’t adequate coaching due to only being 1 coach there which happens, I understand. His intro lesson wasn’t exactly a breeze no idea where we had to go, we were told that someone would meet us at the reception but when we arrived we were just told to go out to the pitches. There was no introduction and my son just felt a spare part with no introduction just thrown in hoping he knew what to do. My son decided he didn’t want to go back due to team members lack of communication or team work( apparently this academy is for one on one work by the email the coach responded back to me when I said I wanted to cancel the membership, how is it one on one??) He was hoping this will be more of team work, communication and being part of a team etc which football should be about and unfortunately hasn’t been.
The online syllabus was completely different to what they were teaching, it was more free play and not one skill was taught as it was just constant little football matches of 10-30 children being monitored by 1 coach. My son got more out of playing on our field by our house with his friends than the lessons from this place. Just shows how professional they are not is the when I emailed them stating my concerns, no correspondence from them at all until I cancelled the membership. that I got a response from the coach saying it one on one coaching (SERIOUSLY??!) and he’ll look into why there’s only 1 coach. Couldn’t teach 10-30 children one on one with just one coach. Wha annoyed me the most was that I spent £120 on this academy as my son refused to go back and when cancelled had to pay for the upcoming month even though what I was paying for wasn’t what was taught. AVOID THIS ACADEMY, You’d be Paying out for a membership that your child can do on the field or park near you without the £55 invoice a month.

Poor safeguarding for children – completely unacceptable.
On multiple occasions there were between 22–30 children on a pitch with just one coach, which is a serious safeguarding failure. Coaching was also inconsistent, with different coaches appearing and no continuity.
My child gained nothing from these sessions. Communication from staff was unprofessional and dismissive, with concerns repeatedly fobbed off via email.
I am also still waiting for my refund, which only adds to this extremely poor experience from start to Finnish.

Poor communication and disrespect from customers services. Demanding & bombard payment. All they care about is money not personal aspects of individuals lives. No empathy at all.

I am very disappointed with Pro Football Academy. Despite notifying a coach seven weeks ago that my child would no longer attend, they continued to charge my subscription without proper confirmation or cancellation. Their official policy requires a 30-day notice through their website, but this was never clearly communicated when we signed up. Multiple customers have reported similar issues, suggesting a pattern of taking payments even when children stop attending.

This feels misleading and unfair, and I would caution parents to read the fine print carefully before committing. In my experience, the process for cancellation is confusing and seems designed to keep charging fees unnecessarily.

There are so many kids and only two coaches. Definitely more than 30 children, and it still costs £55 per month. It’s a terrible place to send your kids. It’s not real football training — it’s just loads of balls and nearly 50 kids crammed into a small pitch at Goals.

My daughter has attended 3 out off 4 session. Very unorganised no one tells you nothing. Have downloaded the app to give you stats on how well she is doing. But notice cause no one signed her in she has only attended 1 session out off 3 so nobody has bothered to sign her in twice. We attended session today. Session was stopped halfway through it so he could sign everyone in. And while he was signing in he threatened if they don't sign in you get fined £50 and they need to tell parents.
On top off this they was also told if they are late you will also get fined £50 and the player will not participate in session. Not good if you are travelling 45mins away during rush hour time. After hearing all this I will taking my daughter to anymore session and I definitely not be giving them anymore money as that is all pfa are after at the end off the day.

Too many kids very unorganised didn’t know where to go what to look for at first couple of the trainers extremely rude to kids . Wasn’t paying attention to kids when they scored or tackling skills just all over the place don’t think il return as no body noticed my sons ability heads turned over runned with kids

My little one adores go at the training.they are really good and concentrated to all the kids one by one
Thank you

So to start i was looking for a place to take my child for extra training to help him along side him playing for a team ....this place seemed to pop up on my searches alot professional football academy they say so I signed up and my son did a few weeks after that short time I quickly realised this was not what we was looking for.....there's no one 2 one care as they are literally over run there with kids in such a small space that my son was continually getting hurt and injured each week that it affected him with his team.....there was no contact each week with the coaches infact I have never spoke or been made to feel welcome or to tell me about my sons abilities all in all just seemed like a money spinner and when you cancel they want another payment for the privilege.
My son had stud marks week on week after playing on astro turf when studs shouldn't be worn but nothing was ever said about it.
Not a good place if you want your child to further in there football abilities

Dirty scammers. All the 1 star reviews you read are correct. Charges me after a free trail then didn’t answer the phone. Managed to speak to another silly man who finally agreed to refund my money which I recorded in case they tried to dispute it later. Bunch off scammers unprofessional and I wish I read this before taking my children.

playung football was a dream i haved since i saw r9 playing i then relaxed but at the age of 10 i decided to starrt training and i believe in me and GOD .i currently live in zimbabwe if i get approvl i can travel to your academy

Beware!!! They are a scam company!! Training session is mediocre and the suppose free trial is not free. I have been charged £62 for a free trial. I am looking to get the bank to do a charge back. Avoid at any cost!!

Despite advertising that they split kids by ability levels, the groups are mixed in both age and skill. The standard is very basic. The coach shows an exercise once and then looks at his phone without correcting anyone. Kids mostly run around doing whatever they want. The word “pro” doesn’t really fit this academy.

The prescot pro acadamys was alot of fun my son came from the usa and was just here for a month and was signed up. I'd like to thank the head office and Coaches Milan, Jake and Coach Geo for all the help the last 4 weeks. All the reviews I'm reading seem to be a case of cuminication if you cancel on the app you won't be charged any further.

He is big scammer. My son joint last year and then some of reson we stopped there. After one year later, my son said Papa can I go there and can I take the free session, I said okay and afterthat someone called me from the office and he asking me what u decided and I m not give any response because very hard to take it, because the ground very far from my house and he took without my permission £46 from my account and I m not agreed because pro football academy have my previous bank account, if u have my bank account you can’t use it without my permission. He’s a big scammer. Please be careful everyone