XVAcademy

Welcome to the XVAcademy website. We are Connacht's High Performance Football Academy, hosting weekly and one off training sessions, camps and clinics. Focusing on individual player development through confidence building skills and drills. We operate small group sessions, where the coaches can give each player the focus and attention needed to accelerate their improvement.

All our weekly sessions, camps, memberships and clinic details are on our app. Download the app from the below app store links:

What is XVAcademy

Be part of the XVAcademy, a high performance football academy where we look for the player's individual development in a competitive and professional environment.

By using our unique methodology and expert coaching, we put the focus on the small details and perfecting all the technical and individual tactical concepts the players will need in their games.

With more than 18 years professional coaching experience of all age groups and a UEFA A license from Spain, Xavi Vázquez is proud to be delivering this academy. Professional League of Ireland player Conor O'Keeffe joined as co-owner of XVAcadmey in 2024. Their focus is to ensure attention to every detail, demanding 100% from every moment, and look for improvement at every session, encouraging the player to play at their best level.

Our weekly sessions are aimed at all the players who feel that they need more sessions or they want to do extra sessions because they love football. The training groups are small, 6-12 players, to be able to give as much information as possible to the players every session, at the same time that the players can do as many actions as possible to improve their skills.

Shortly after our launch of XVAcademy in early 2023, we realised we needed to build an indoor astroturf facility of our own, if we wanted to achieve our dreams of growing to a full time football academy. Over the next 12 months we searched for the perfect industrial unit. In April 2024, we signed the lease on what is now The XVArena. 

Planning permission and construction kept us entertained and busy for the following 6 months and what was once a dream became a reality!

Now, we host over 20 hours a week of small group sessions, corporate team building sessions and birthday parties.  

Our 250m2 UEFA standard astroturf pitch is the best surface we could find on the market and is perfect for 5-a-side underage training sessions and tournaments. 

For adults, 4-a-side is the best format. We have hosted birthday parties team building sessions up to 40 players, with tournament style setup.

If you are interested in booking The XVArena for a team building or birthday party, drop us a quick email - info@xvacademy.ie