Program Description

On the course, you learn a range of coaching skills enabling you to deliver and plan training sessions relevant to team/player standard. You also learn to evaluate the performance of a player, team or match and have a range of strategies for their development. You can put your learning into practice in football-related scenarios and realistic simulations. The course offers a broad overview of sport and the football industry in the first year before focusing on coaching, when it covers areas such as performance analysis (player and match); coaching alternative populations; performance coaching; player potential and development; and psychology for football.

• Benefit from work experience linked to elite and sub-elite football, and within the University of Bedfordshire Football Academy
• Take up coaching opportunities at local schools
• Be taught by top-class professionals within the field, working with governing bodies such as the FA, UEFA and FIFA as well as experts from professional football teams
• Become an independent, critical learner with the skills and knowledge to review current and future trends within the game as well as develop the professional values associated with high-quality coaching and player support
• As a coaching professional, you could move into a range of football-related health, education, community and social settings as well as working at club and league levels
• Take the course over four years and include a fee-free year in industry (see below), gaining experience, building your CV and making contacts for the future

Admission Requirements

• Indian Students:-Year 12 with 55% overall.
• Arab Students:- Any of the following:-
  • 2 A level passes (minimum C and D)
  • International Baccalaureate (24 points)
  • A recognised Foundation degree

IELTS Requirements

Listening	Reading	Writing	Speaking	Overall
5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	6

Remarks:

Indian Students IELTS Waiver: - 

• At least 70% marks in English language course in Higher Secondary School.
• Punjab and Haryana Boards will not get IELTS waive off.