Fredrikstad FK has taken significant steps in the development of the academy and scores highest on planning and training process. The club has also improved the players' daily life and has invested in the organization around the academy. Fredrikstad Fotballklubb has taken significant steps in the development of the academy and scores highest on planning and training process. The club has also improved the players' daily life and has invested in the organization around the academy. The club's development department has concluded 2025 with the most comprehensive and measurable systematic progress to date. The club's development director, Mathias Solstad, says that the evaluations from G13 to FFK2 and from FFK women show clear improvements in training standards, game performance, player development, and competition performance. The academy has also set a record for external recognition through national team activities and academic classification reports and is now strengthening the structure towards 2026. The external recognition referred to is NTF's academic classification - which is the top football's own classification system for evaluating and certifying the quality of player development in football clubs, based on a range of criteria within areas such as planning, player logistics, training process, player's game year, school football cooperation and partnership models. The model for 2025 consists of 219 criteria, distributed over 11 areas that are central to good development work. The model has been developed in collaboration with clubs and for years with knowledge collection from the world's top performance environments, and revised after the classification in 2017, 2019 and 2022. The classification for 2025 is now completed, and it shows that FFK has taken significant steps from the previous classification. We end up on 132 points and retain 3 stars. This is a clear improvement from 117 points last year. The area where FFK has the greatest development potential is productivity, in basic points Fredrikstad has the fourth best academy in Norway. These feedbacks are we very proud and proud of. We score highest on planning, training process, school football and partnership models. The academy is described as an environment with high speed, clear strategy and solid structure. The training process, methodology and planning are particularly highlighted as strong areas, says Solstad who can confirm that FFK-Academy retains its three stars out of five possible. Improved players' daily life Solstad tells about a year where the club has invested in both the organization around the academy and the training process and the players' daily life. We have become much more reliable in the work of following up on young people in growth in everyday life and making appropriate interventions in the strength room or on the pitch. It has been a major improvement, says Solstad and continues: Training volumes are more stable, progression is more predictable and content is more systematic than before. More trainers are used on the field in the oldest age groups, and the training methodology follows the curriculum in the academy. The physical work has been documented to be improved from G13 to FFK2 and on J17 and FFK women A. The club has in 2025 gone to the purchase of various analysis tools that the academy previously did not have available.