BSc (Hons) Football Coaching and Performance
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Football is a fast-growing industry that needs specialist professionals. This football coaching degree will give you the skills, experience and contacts to help gain employment in the football industry, whether as a coach, performance analyst, or as a member of sport science support staff.
We have designed our football coaching courses with professional clubs including Swansea City AFC, Cardiff City FC, and the Football Association of Wales (FAW) Trust, to identify the skills and qualities needed to work in the professional football industry. This input means you’ll get the opportunity to learn on a daily basis from well-qualified football coaches and UEFA coach educators, some of whom work at an international level.
One of a number of FAW courses we offer, this football coaching course combines a football-specific qualification with the opportunity to apply your knowledge in industry through our excellent placement opportunities, also available in the USA. You can develop a coaching profile and work towards your FAW C Certificate and FAW/UEFA B licence.
You’ll study in world-class facilities and conduct most of your work at USW Sport Park, which is designed to support a high- performance coaching environment.
What you will study
We have designed our football coaching course with a number of professional clubs, including Swansea City AFC, Cardiff City FC, and the Football Association of Wales (FAW) Trust, to identify the skills and qualities needed to work in the professional football industry.
On this course you can study all disciplines of coaching, with distinct pathways allowing focus on football- specific modules. These include performance analysis, psychology, physiology, and strength and conditioning, in addition to performance coaching, and community football management.
You’ll also have the opportunity to develop a coaching profile and work towards your Football Association of Wales (FAW) Level 2 (UEFA C) and Level 3 (UEFA B) coaching licenses.
Year One: Football Coaching course
- Football coaching: young performers in practice - 20 credits
- Coaching process: theory to practice - 20 credits
- Academic research and professional skills - 20 credits
- Introduction to football performance analysis - 20 credits
- Introduction to SS for football - 20 credits
- Managing and developing FITC - 20 credits
Year Two: Football Coaching course
- Football coaching: adolescent performers in practice - 20 credits
- Football coaching pedagogy - 20 credits
- Research methods - 20 credits
- Football performance analysis - 20 credits
- Sport science for football - 20 credits
- Sport placement: football - 20 credits
Year Three: Football Coaching course
- Performance football coaching - 40 credits
- Applied professional project / Dissertation - 40 credits
- Analysis in football coaching and performance - 20 credits
- Football psychology - 20 credits (optional)
- Work-based learning - 20 credits (optional)
- Strength and conditioning - 20 credits (optional)
Careers
You can enter a range of careers when you graduate, such as an football academy coach or skills coach at a professional club, football development officer, community coach, sports development officer, strength and conditioning coach or performance analyst. Some graduates find employment in the armed forces, emergency services or continue to study to become a teacher.
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