A magazine from the future of football.

SCOUTED is an independent magazine, online and in print, with a simple dream: to discover the next generation of football stars and help tell their stories.

Scouting and recruitment is football's secret engine. The super teams, the Champions League winners, the international icons, the millions of fans: without the expertise to spot, platform and develop the next generation, the sport we love falls apart. We believe this world is big enough to deserve a premium publication all its own, that the stories it generates are definitive and worth careful telling.

SCOUTED readers stay ahead of the game with profiles on the next generation, beautifully told first-person journalism, and analysis straight from our in-house analytics team, who work directly with some of the biggest clubs in the world.

We also believe, very strongly, in the power of great reading, and in beautifully written journalism, and in stories that take a lot of time and effort to tell. We want SCOUTED to be a place readers can disconnect from the noise of the internet, slow down, and enjoy some great ideas that help them understand football more deeply. We want to produce something you can curl up in an armchair with, take a break with, enjoy on a long Sunday morning with a coffee.

Unfortunately, this work isn't sexy. We are being overrun by publications happy to publish clickbait, plaster their websites with ads until they're unreadable, and just generally compromise the wellbeing of their readers in pursuit of profit.

Luckily, we can choose a better media environment, and slowly shape a better world. Help us build it - help us fund our original magazines and long-form stories. Help us pay our writers and illustrators fairly. In return, we'll ensure you always have something excellent to read - and all for the price of a single cold brew at this writer's local coffee spot (seriously).

Subscribe now and receive:

Access to our entire backlog, including full digital magazines to download & keep
SCOUTED50 - and the 2027 edition on day one, later this year
Priority access and 20% off all future print projects
Our immense gratitude - and the knowledge you're supporting an independent project, not a conglomerate

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SCOUTED Pro

Since our founding, SCOUTED's methodologies and processes have influenced club scouting departments across Europe and beyond. In 2026, we launched SCOUTED Pro, a player intelligence editorial designed for professional recruitment departments. Pro's team regularly check in to drop their industry-leading expertise in articles and snippets for the magazine.

"SCOUTED has been one of the resources for the FC Porto scouting team in recent years. Their work challenges our approach to recruitment and inspires new scouting practices."

Paulo Araujo, Director of Scouting at FC Porto

Meet the team

Unlike most premium football outlets, SCOUTED isn’t owned by a conglomerate, or bankrolled by a venture capitalist. We’re just a group of guys who met as students and tried to build something cool.

Everything we make goes straight back into the magazine’s pockets so we can keep SCOUTED alive. No shareholder dividends, no parent company leeching profits to buy second houses: just us, some writers making a modest living.

SCOUTED Editorial

Tom Curren / Tom is the founder of SCOUTED. He is a writer and editor living in London and interested in bridging the gap between analysis and narrative. He leads the magazine's day-to-day, closely edits every story we publish, and acts as creative direction on all the magazines.

SCOUTED Pro

Llew Davies / Llew is a scout who has been spotting talent for SCOUTED since 2014. Now he acts as SCOUTED Pro's lead video and technical scout, and his notes appear in the inboxes of clubs across the globe.

Jake Entwistle / Jake joined SCOUTED in 2024 after eight years of leading Squawka’s social efforts. He is an analyst and data scout and the brain behind Archetypes, our mission to better quantify the footballing meta. He leads SCOUTED Pro's data efforts, and has built models and methodologies that help clubs find talent worldwide.