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Course Overview

Enhance your personal development as a football coach and join our innovative coaching degree programme. Designed to improve your performance and career opportunities in community and youth football (soccer), this course is delivered mainly online to provide ultimate flexibility around the unconventional working patterns of sports professionals, wherever your global location.

Whether you're involved in boys' or girls', men's or women's football, you will develop your skills and techniques as a development coach within the context of today's ever-evolving footballing landscape. Our on-going consultations with education professionals from community football ensure that this qualification delivers relevant, contemporary, practical learning, placing emphasis on practical skills and experiential learning.

Our specialist and practising tutors share their knowledge and expertise as they guide you through the programme, helping you to achieve your aspirations. You'll learn in an innovative, supportive and challenging environment with other players and coaches, facilitated through our innovative Learning Management System, and enriched by a lively and packed Cambridge Residential each June.

Course Highlights

  • Build a network of peers, sports academics and highly-qualified sports professionals.
  • Innovative online degree enriched by a lively residential each June.
  • Designed to improve your performance in youth or community football.

Entry Requirement 

Covid 19: We have made special provisions for Furloughed Players and Coaches on this course and you will be able to enroll and study as normal this September. Please contact us with any queries.

Due to the specialist nature of this course, applicants are required to have:

  1. An FA Level 1 or equivalent qualification in any sport. AND
  2. A contract within a football domain (or related area) in a leadership position with access to football players for the purposes of coaching and completing assignments.

Additionally, the following specific entry requirements apply for the course:

  • A minimum of 48 UCAS Tariff points from a minimum of 1 A Level (or equivalent) including a pass in Psychology, Physical Education, Sports Studies, or a Science subject.
  • C grades in GCSE English and Mathematics (or equivalent).

The course is taught in English. Applicants whose first language is not English need to demonstrate proficiency in English, either with a GCSE in English (Grade C or above) or a minimum IELTS score of 6.5.

Fees

The full tuition fee for this course is £18300.

The tuition fees you pay each year for the full Coaching for Development in Football BSc (Hons) will be £6100. The course is studied over 3 years.

Accredited prior learning may reduce the tuition fees. This will be confirmed once your application has been submitted.

Please note that accommodation for the annual residential is provided by ARU. Personal travel to and from the residential venues is not included nor any fees relating to learning delivered by external providers such as FA Badges.


This information was accurate on : 04/03/2021
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