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BA (Hons) Football Coaching

University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

The rapid growth of the football sector has created many opportunities to become a sports professional in an expanding, borderless industry. This course prepares you to work as a skilled coach across a range of football-related settings.

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.

General Eligibility

We will consider you as an individual and take into account all elements of your application, not just your qualifications. We are looking for breadth and depth in your current studies and enthusiasm for the subject you wish to study.

To learn more about the following UCAS entry requirement tariffs:

  • 80 – 96 tariff points

  • 96 – 112 tariff points

  • 112- 120 tariff points

You can work out how many UCAS points your qualifications are worth with the UCAS tariff calculator

Check Your Country page to confirm that your local qualifications are suitable or contact your International Admissions Team

Part Time Work Details

The 20 hours is total hours. It is not per job. If you hold multiple part-time jobs then the total hours of all the work you are doing added together.

What You'll Study

1 Module
  • Academic Writing Skills (SPO048-1) Compulsory

  • Foundations For Football Coaching (SPO060-1) Compulsory

  • Introduction To Football Studies (SPO085-1) Compulsory

  • Introduction To Research Methods (SPO052-1) Compulsory

  • Sport In Action: Management (SPO087-1) Compulsory

  • Sport, Physical Activity And Life Story (SPO088-1) Compulsory

  • The Football Industry (SPO083-1) Compulsory

  • Working In Sport (SPO047-1) Compulsory

  • Applied Football Coaching (SPO093-2) Compulsory

  • Dissertation Preparation (SPO095-2) Compulsory

  • Football Development (SPO096-2) Compulsory

  • Football Governance (SPO102-2) Compulsory

  • Football In The Community (SPO097-2) Compulsory

  • Performance Analysis (Player And Match) (SPO035-2) Compulsory

  • Research Methods For Sport And Physical Activity (SPO100-2) Compulsory

  • Social Psychology Of Sport (SPO026-2) Compulsory

  • Advanced Coaching For Football (SPO086-3) Compulsory

  • Coaching Alternative Populations (SPO087-3) Compulsory

  • Dissertation For Sport And Physical Activity (SPO042-3) Compulsory

  • Performance Analysis For Football (SPO090-3) Compulsory

  • Performance Coaching (SPO058-3) Compulsory

  • Player Potential And Development (SPO091-3) Compulsory

  • Work Placement Project (SPO057-3) Compulsory

  • Psychology For Football (SPO092-3) Optional

  • Running A Business (SPO093-3) Optional

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

English language requirements

The University accepts the following qualification as satisfying the English Language requirements for entry to a Bachelor or Master's degree.

UKVI Academic IELTS overall score of 6.0 with minimum 5.5 in each element

Please note: some courses may require higher levels of English – the exact criteria will be specified in the course descriptions

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