How Queens Park Rangers Build Individual Development Into Their Weekly Cycle

The English Championship demands more of its clubs than almost any other division in world football. Forty-six regular season fixtures, plus cup commitments and the play-offs, produce a schedule where a squad can play twice inside five days for weeks at a stretch. For analysts and individual development coaches trying to extract meaningful learning from each game, the window between the final whistle and the next kick-off is tight.

At Queens Park Rangers, the individual player development programme sits at the heart of how the club approaches that challenge. The challenge was how to make it genuinely continuous, rather than something confined to a meeting room. Players needed to access and engage with it at every point of the week. MyGamePlan gave them the infrastructure to do exactly that.

From Final Whistle to Individual Review

Kevin Betsy joined QPR as their Individual Development Coach with a clear philosophy: players who understand their own game, who can look at data and footage and draw their own conclusions, develop faster and with more genuine buy-in than players who simply receive instructions. Building that kind of self-awareness requires access.

The process begins on the night of the game. As soon as a match concludes, every player's individual clips are assigned to them directly through the MyGamePlan app. Each player receives their own filtered view of the game: every touch, every defensive action, every decision, tagged and ready to watch on their phone. No waiting for a staff member to compile and distribute a package.

For right back Amadou Mbengue, that access has become part of his post-match routine. After a game, he opens the app to go back through his clips, then cross-references his individual development programme, the IDP his coaching staff have built for him within the platform, to see how his metrics from the game compare to where they were the week before.

"After a game, I will go onto the app to review my clips. I will try to watch my own clips and the full game. I will then look at my progress through my IDPs on the app, which have been set up by our IDP coach."
Amadou Mbengue, Right Back, QPR

By the time Mbengue and Kevin sit down during the week, Mbengue has already formed his own reading of the game. Kevin can ask more pointed questions, dig into specific clips, and have a conversation rather than a briefing. Players tracking their own IDPs between sessions means the individual meetings go considerably deeper as a result.

Building Development Plans Players Actually Engage With

The IDP process at QPR starts with alignment. The club analysis team lead by Saul Hemmingway, works with the player and the coaching team to identify the areas of a player's game that need to develop, anchored to the club's unique positional profiles. From there, the relevant metrics are built from scratch inside MyGamePlan, tailored to each player's position, their targets, and their current trajectory.

For Mbengue, that specificity is central to how the IDP functions. One of his tracked metrics monitors how often he performs a pressure action within five seconds of an opponent completing a line-breaking pass that ends in the right third of the pitch. It is the kind of reactive defensive trigger that separates well-positioned full-backs from those who get caught, and that level of granularity means the targets are diagnostic rather than generic.

Alongside tracking of such data, the platform gives Kevin and his analysts the ability to generate video playlists directly from that data, without spending hours manually tagging and creating playlists. The clips that inform the metrics are immediately available as watchable content. Kevin is deliberate about making sure players are embedded in this process rather than just on the receiving end of it. Providing data and elite examples alongside the clips has been central to shifting how players understand and engage with their own development targets.

Preparing for the Next Opponent

Pre-match individual preparation in the Championship is a competitive requirement. With teams meeting twice per season and direct match-ups at full-back versus winger often deciding outcomes, the depth of individual opponent preparation a club can produce in a short turnaround matters.

For each fixture, QPR's coaching staff build a clip package focused on the specific players each QPR player will face. These are not general highlight reels but targeted clips illustrating the patterns each player will most likely encounter. For a wide forward that Mbengue will mark, that means footage showing how much space they allow the winger to receive in behind, their preferred foot in one-v-one situations, and the zones they target from wide crosses.

Mbengue watches that content before the team meeting. He arrives having already formed his own picture of the opponent.

"I like to watch the opponent forwards when we are preparing for the game. How they will look to attack and what they are like from crosses and aerial duels. It is important for me to see how they use the ball in one-v-one attacking situations and which foot they use the most when they are looking to dribble and shoot. Also, from crosses, which space they like to attack."
‍Amadou Mbengue, Right Back, QPR

That preparation feeds directly into his analytical conversations with the analyst. Mbengue uses what he has seen in the app as the basis for testing whether his read of the opponent aligns with what the data and additional footage shows. He arrives at those sessions with hypotheses rather than questions, and uses the discussion to sharpen or challenge what he has already seen.

What Changes for Staff and Players

Before MyGamePlan, producing individual clip packages for both post-match review and opponent preparation required significant manual work. Filtering footage, assembling clips, and distributing them were distinct, time-consuming steps. In a schedule that rarely allows more than two or three days between games, that overhead has a direct cost. The biggest operational change has been the removal of that production layer: the platform's ability to filter for clips and push them directly to players means Kevin's staff spend that time on the quality of the analysis itself, not the logistics of getting it to players.

When a player is monitoring their own progress, forming their own views on opponents, and arriving at meetings already prepared, the conversations between coach and player become more substantive.

"The improvement in players' understanding of opponent individuals and their engagement with their own clips from training and games. That has been the biggest change."
Kevin Betsy, Individual Development Coach, QPR

It is a culture that runs to the top of the squad. QPR captain Jimmy Dunne was named MyGamePlan's Player of the Month for January, an award recognising the highest engagement on the app across all partner clubs, for his consistency in reviewing his own footage and studying upcoming opponents.

That is the outcome that MyGamePlan makes repeatable across a 46-game season.