About Us

PREMIER SKILLS is a football company dedicated to developing top quality coaches and great players. We aim to do this by delivering innovative coach education and player development courses at all levels.

In 2002, John Cartwright and Roger Wilkinson recognised the deficiencies in the development of football coaches and young players in the United Kingdom. Together, they developed Cartwright’s vision of how the game should be played, incorporating high levels of skill within an advanced tactical framework. Understanding that young players and coaches needed something greater to aspire to, Cartwright and Wilkinson founded PREMIER SKILLS.  

At PREMIER SKILLS we have designed a truly unique and innovative coaching methodology called Practice Play. We have been delivering this methodology around the world since 2002 and have established PREMIER SKILLS as a leading educator of coaches and players.