Conall Francis Murtagh (born 29 June 1985) is a Northern Irish sports scientist and professional football coach who is currently head of Physical Performance department for Premier League club Liverpool.
In 2012–13, Bala were play-off champions and qualified for the first time in the club's history for a European position in the 2013–14 campaign.
[17] Murtagh publishes widely on medical sports science issues and has been a keynote speaker to many soccer events, including the High Performance Football Coaching Course at Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Lisboa, Portugal, in 2022 and 2023.
He was a keynote speaker representing Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University at the Sao Paulo Sports Science Congress hosted by Brazil’s Palmeiras club, and was also a speaker at the 20th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science in Malmo, Sweden.
Murtagh is also an honorary visiting research fellow at the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences in Liverpool John Moores University (appointed April, 2018).