OpenDecember 2026
A winter week inside Manchester football, open to any player.
Dec 27, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027ManchesterIndividual$2,999$2,599
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Experience English football from within.
IPPE takes American players inside the English game. Your child trains and plays alongside English kids and English clubs, lives the week of a young player chasing the Premier League, and you're there for every bit of it.
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Within
Your player steps inside English football, not around it.
The word that runs through everything we do is “within.” On an IPPE soccer tour, your player trains and plays alongside English kids and English clubs and lives the week of a young footballer chasing the Premier League. They don’t just visit English football. They step inside it for an entire week.
That’s what we mean by from within. Not a trip to see English football, but a week spent inside it.
- They train inside the English game. Real sessions with English kids and English clubs, under academy coaching, at the pace and the standard the game is played at here.
- The week is built around your player. Their age, their level, and what they need most. One player, one plan, not a packaged group on a fixed schedule.
- Your family lives it together. You are in the week alongside your child, at the training ground and through the days, not waiting at a hotel.
- Everything points back to the football. The city, the meals, the travel, the experiences. All of it orbits the reason you came.
The Experience
The kind of access most families can’t get on their own.
Plenty of trips will sell you a stadium ticket and a photo by the badge. We’re different. Over a week, your player steps into rooms that are normally shut: a training session run by academy coaches, a stadium seen from the inside, an evaluation from someone who watches young players for a living. It is the part of English football that money usually can’t open, and it is the part we built IPPE to open.
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A real matchday
Inside the training ground
The stadium, from the inside
An honest evaluationConnections
Manchester United
Manchester City
Liverpool
EvertonSee what your player does at each club
Who we work with inside the English game.
We work with real clubs, some of the biggest clubs in the world. Every tour includes experiences with at least one of Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, and Everton.
Manchester UnitedManchester CityLiverpoolEvertonHow it works
How immersion actually works.
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Integrate
Your player trains and plays alongside English kids and English clubs, not against a touring team that flew over with them.
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Built for them
We shape the week around your player, their age, and their level. It is not a packaged group tour.
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Together
Your family lives the week alongside your child, not from a hotel down the road.
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We plan it with you
It starts with a conversation, not a checkout.
The founder
Our Roots And Purpose
IPPE started with one stubborn idea. More than a decade ago, our founder went looking for an international experience that matched how he already coached: built around the individual player, not the whole team on a fixed schedule. He couldn’t find it, so he built it. The connections came first, more than twenty years of them, inside English football with Manchester United and Manchester City scouts and coaches, and now Liverpool and Everton too. The tours, open to families beyond his own players, are the newer part. He runs them because it no longer felt right to keep this door shut to everyone else. Chris Castell, founder. A former professional player in England and an American Collegiate Hall of Famer.
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Tours run
247
Players immersed
634
Total participants
2016
Touring since
Upcoming trips
Upcoming trips.
A few of the trips coming up. Every one is built around the players who join it.
Open
OpenMarch 2027
A spring week, sponsored by Homewood Soccer Club and open to all.
Mar 19 – 26, 2027ManchesterIndividualStarting at $2,699
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OpenJuly 2027
A full summer immersion hosted with SC Alliance, with your family alongside.
Jul 25 – Aug 1, 2027ManchesterIndividual$2,999$2,599
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All of the stadium tours and the games we got to see were A+. My kids learned a lot about English soccer and how they go about it over there.
Jenny, IPPE parent
Together
You are not dropping your player off.
On most tours, parents wait. They sit in a hotel lobby or wait at the airport and hear about it secondhand. That is not how this works. With IPPE, your family lives the week together. You watch the training, you feel the place, and when your child walks off the grass after a session inside an English club, you are the one they tell first. Families tell us it’s the part they didn’t expect to love as much as they did.
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Let’s talk it through
Tell us about your player.
The first step is a conversation, not a deposit. We get on a call, we learn about your child and your family, and begin to plan your English football journey.