The mechanic
The whole product is one rule: a review counts toward a trainer's verdict only if we can tie it to a verified club that engaged them. Here's how that works, and where it stops.
Domain email, league registration, published staff list, or an invite from an already-verified colleague.
The trainer records the club, the season, their role, and which staff they worked under.
Each named staff member gets their own link. It can't be forwarded, and it expires on use.
Published under the club's name with a verified badge, and counted in the verdict.
We publish both. Only one of them moves the number, and we never make you guess which is which.
"Third season with us and the first one where our keepers looked coached. Builds a plan per keeper and reports back on it."
Counts toward the verdict. We know the club, the season, and who wrote it.
"Best keeper coach in the area, hands down."
Published, but excluded. It might be completely genuine — we just can't show you who wrote it or prove they hired him.
Clubs contract a specialist maybe once a season, so review counts here will never look like a consumer marketplace. Two clubs agreeing is not yet a track record.
We solve part of it by inviting every staff member on an engagement rather than just one — but a thin average is still a thin average.
A club that contracts the same trainer for a second season has voted with its budget. That's expensive to fake, which is exactly why we show it.
Trainers with fewer than 3 club engagements appear in results but aren't ranked against people with a longer record.
If four people from a club answer, the club still counts once. No single relationship can carry a whole record.
Demanding or patient, technical or free-flowing — these aren't better or worse, they're a question of fit. Clubs tag them so you can self-select, rather than marking a coach down for not being what a different club wanted.
We ask "would you engage them again?" rather than for a number out of five. One director's three is another's five; a yes or no has an answer they already know.
This matters more than the rest of the page. Verification here is narrow and specific, and we'd rather say so plainly than let you assume something we haven't done.
We do not screen criminal history, and a verified badge says nothing about anyone's character or safety. Your club's own screening obligations are unchanged.
Where a trainer supplies a licence document, we confirm a document was provided — not that a governing body stands behind it. Profiles say which is which.
We don't recommend anyone. We confirm that a club we could identify engaged this trainer, and we publish what that club's staff said about it.
Clubs remain responsible for their own screening, supervision, insurance, and compliance with their governing body's requirements. T-Rating is a record of who worked where and how it went — not a substitute for any of that.
Every verdict on the site links to the reviews it was computed from. Check the arithmetic yourself.