Daniel Tumelty-Bevan is an academy goalkeeping specialist with a career built around developing young goalkeepers through structured, age-appropriate training methodology. A graduate of the University of Glamorgan (University of South Wales) with a BSc in Football Coaching and Sports Performance, he combines coach education principles with practical academy delivery across the professional game in England and Wales.
He is currently Head of Academy Goalkeeping at Birmingham City FC (from July 2021), overseeing the club’s goalkeeping programme and supporting the development pathway across the academy. Prior to this senior role, he served as an Academy Goalkeeping Coach at Birmingham City (Apr 2018–Mar 2022), acting as lead goalkeeping coach for the U9–U14 age groups while also assisting and leading sessions with U15–U23 goalkeepers. Across this period, his work focused on designing and implementing goalkeeper development sessions aligned to planned, structured individual development plans, ensuring technical progression and decision-making skills were built consistently over time.
Before joining Birmingham City, Daniel was Head of Academy Goalkeeping at Bristol Rovers FC (Sep 2016–Apr 2018), where he led the academy goalkeeping programme from U8 through to U18s and took responsibility for designing the framework and content of sessions across the full pathway. Alongside his club work, he contributed to the international game as a Women’s Goalkeeping Coach with the Football Association of Wales (Nov 2015–Jul 2017), supporting the development of Welsh female goalkeepers across age-group and senior levels and helping prepare goalkeepers for international performance demands during qualification campaigns.
Earlier in his career, Daniel worked as a Goalkeeping Coach within the Bristol City FC academy (Mar 2016–Oct 2016), primarily supporting ages 7–12 while also contributing to older groups up to U21, delivering sessions aligned to the club’s goalkeeper curriculum. He began his professional pathway at Cardiff City FC as an Academy Goalkeeping Coach (Sep 2011–Nov 2015), where he led goalkeeper coaching for U7–U11 age groups, supported matchday learning through analysis, and contributed to ongoing player assessment and development planning.
He speaks English and is recognised for his expertise in academy goalkeeping development, session design, and building clear goalkeeper pathways that connect early foundation stages to the demands of professional youth football.
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