Sporting director
| Highest | $15,000 / mo · Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| Experience | 8+ yrs |
| Degree | Required |
| First paycheck | ~5 years (scout/analyst entry work) |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
What does the day look like?
You plan the squad across seasons with the head coach, agree transfer and wage budgets with the board, lead talks with agents and selling clubs, sign off contracts with legal counsel, run the scouting network and the academy, hire and dismiss coaching staff, and manage the medical, performance and analytics departments. The daily tools are Wyscout and Hudl for video, StatsBomb for event data, TransferRoom for market deals, Scout7 or a similar recruitment database, load and injury systems, and Microsoft Excel for squad and budget models.
Picking star signings is a small share of the time, packed into 2 registration windows per season under FIFA rules. Most of the week is meetings, budget control, squad-cost and registration compliance, staff management and press work. Hours follow fixtures: evenings, weekends and matchdays are work, and deadline periods bring night work with on-call availability. In O*NET 2026, 52% of respondents in 11-9072.00 reported a 40-hour week, but that covers facility and recreation managers broadly, so for elite clubs it marks the floor rather than the norm.
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