Pro-Sports Academy

Right to Dream Academy was founded in 1999 by Tom Vernon, who had been Manchester United's head scout in Africa. It started on a small scale and, unlike most youth academies, independent of a professional team, training a small number of boys who were initially housed in Vernon's home. Some scouts and other staff were volunteers.

In 2004, the organization began partnering with US boarding high schools to offer athletic scholarships. In 2010, the organization opened a new facility south of Akosombo in the Eastern Region of Ghana. As of 2021, it is an all-scholarship boarding school for promising footballers drawn from all over West Africa.

Bleacher Report ranked it 15th in their 2013 ranking of youth academies. A girls’ youth system programme was introduced in 2013, the first in Africa. In 2014, Right to Dream Academy launched the first Right to Dream school programme in Takoradi. In 2015, Right to Dream bought FC Nordsjaelland.

As of 2015, partners included Tullow Oil Ghana, Mantrac Ghana, Ashoka, and Laureus Sport For Good Foundation.

In 2021, the Mansour Group invested $120 million in a takeover and announced it was forming a new entity, ManSports. Mohamed Mansour became the chairman of the academy, while Vernon continued to operate as chief executive officer.

In 2022, Right to Dream bought Egyptian pro football club FC Masar. The Mansour Group also financed an expansion team in Major League Soccer that will begin play in 2025 and be based in San Diego, California. The team, named San Diego FC, will construct a Right to Dream academy near El Cajon, California.