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# Football Coaching and Performance

Immerse yourself in elite sporting environments, building real-world experience, industry insight, and professional confidence. Develop the skills, mindset, and networks needed to progress into football coaching and applied performance support roles across the professional game.

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## Course Overview

Designed to push you forward in the game and transition seamlessly into the performance football industry. An inspirational environment that enables you to explore the challenges of real-world multi-disciplinary performance teams.

This course prepares you to reach your potential in an elite football environment. Whether you aspire to coach at professional clubs, grow the grassroots game, or unlock the game’s secrets through performance analysis, you’ll gain the technical knowledge and personal qualities to succeed.

In partnership with the Football Association of Wales, the National Strength and Conditioning Association, the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, CIMSPA, CASES, UK International Soccer and EFL in the Community.

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We have a number of partnerships available, please see course overview for details.

## Why study this course?

### UEFA licence

You’ll have the opportunity to gain the UEFA C and B coaching licences as part of the course, at no extra cost.

### Elite-level facilities

Train and study in high-quality facilities, including the UK’s only university full-size indoor 3G pitch, dedicated strength and conditioning areas, and professional-standard performance analysis technology.

### Industry links

The course is designed with the FAW, Cardiff City and other professional clubs, giving you access to placement opportunities and real experience within the football industry.

### Staff expertise

You’ll learn from staff with professional coaching experience and research expertise that helps shape football coaching in the UK and internationally.

### High-quality teaching

Sport Science at USW is ranked top in Wales for Teaching Quality (Guardian University Guide 2025)

## What you'll study

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In your first year, you will develop core coaching principles, technical, tactical and physiological understanding of athlete development, supported by performance analysis, and leadership application.

You will build competence and confidence to operate effectively in grassroots and community football environments.

## Foundations of Football Coaching

Learn the foundations of football coaching, from planning and delivering engaging sessions to reflecting on your practice. Build your coaching identity, develop key skills, and gain the confidence to lead and inspire players.

## Leading within the Football Industry

Explore leadership in football, developing self-awareness, communication, and ethical decision-making. Learn to lead yourself first, reflect on your values, and gain the skills and confidence to guide players, teams, and organisations.

## Football Performance Support: Introduction to Multi-Disciplinary Teams

Explore how coaches, analysts, sport scientists, and psychologists work together to improve football performance. Through practical challenges and real scenarios, you’ll learn how performance insights shape coaching decisions and player development, building the confidence foundations needed to operate confidently effectively within modern football performance environments.

## Talent Identification, Recruitment and Development: Frameworks and Principles

Explore how football talent is identified, recruited, and developed within academy and grassroots pathways. You’ll learn how coaches  recognise potential, understand growth and development factors, and apply ethical, evidence-based approaches to supporting young players, building the foundations to work confidently in talent identification and player development environments.

You will advance your coaching knowledge within adolescent and academy settings, exploring talent identification, player development frameworks and periodisation.

This is supported by performance analysis, player appraisal and organisational leadership, enabling you to understand how football organisations operate and develop players.

## Applied Football Coaching

Build on your Level 4 learning by further adapting your coaching craft to manage the demands of real football environments, in an adolescent performer context. Develop inclusive, technical, tactical and participant-focused sessions, reflect on your coaching identity, and gain the confidence to lead, motivate, and support player development.

## Leading Football Organisations: Systems and Processes

Explore how football organisations operate and how leaders manage systems, people, and processes. Develop the skills to coordinate teams, improve workflows, and lead clubs and programmes effectively in real football environments.

## Football Performance Support: Integrating Multi-Disciplinary Teams

Apply performance analysis, psychology, and physical performance methods to real football scenarios, learning how to design and evaluate player-support interventions. You’ll develop the skills to turn data and observations into practical performance solutions, preparing you to contribute confidently within professional multi-disciplinary team environments.

## Talent Identification, Recruitment and Development: Managing the Player Journey

Examine how football academies recruit, develop, and support players through each stage of their journey. You’ll learn to design and manage Individual Development Plans, monitor progression, and make ethical, evidence-based decisions that balance performance and player welfare, preparing you for roles in talent identification and player development environments.

You will operate at an advanced coaching level, aligning with UEFA B Licence principles and tactical periodisation approaches.

You will develop expertise in analysis, scouting and leading teams while navigating complex technical and tactical performance demands. The emphasis shifts toward leading teams and enabling high-performance environments.

## Advanced Football Coaching

Take your coaching further by applying your skills in real football environments. Design inclusive sessions, adapt to players’ needs, reflect on your coaching identity, and lead confidently across grassroots, community, and academy football.

## Football Performance Support: Enabling Winning Teams

This module develops your ability to lead and integrate football performance services. Analyse data, coordinate interdisciplinary teams, and design strategies that improve team cohesion, wellbeing, and on-pitch performance in high-level football environments.

## Leading High Performance Teams

Take the lead in high-performance football. Learn how trust, motivation, communication, and culture shape elite teams, and apply your skills to create resilient, cohesive, and successful environments under real-world pressure.

## Talent Identification, Recruitment and Development: Elite Football

Examine how elite clubs identify, recruit, and transition players into senior football. You’ll learn to build evidence-based player profiles, assess readiness and potential, and make informed recruitment decisions, developing the analytical and professional skills required to operate confidently in elite scouting and talent recruitment environments.

We regularly review our courses to keep pace with changing skills and employer needs. If a review leads to significant changes, we’ll contact you to explain what’s changing for the coming year.

## Teaching and Assessment

The course focuses on both football and leadership related knowledge needed to develop professionals for the football industry. Developed in partnership with professional coaching organisations, this football coaching course allows you to study and gain work placements across the globe.

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You’ll learn by doing, tackling real football challenges that develop your coaching, leadership, and performance skills.

Each year builds on the last, from leading yourself in community settings to managing teams and systems to shaping high-performance culture.

Through applied tasks, industry projects, and reflective practice, you’ll gain the confidence and experience to make an impact in professional football environments.

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Assessment is designed to reflect real football practice and help you grow as a coach, leader, and performance professional.

You’ll tackle practical coaching tasks, reports, presentations, and leadership projects that build from foundational reflection at Level 4 to managing teams, systems, and high-performance environments at Levels 5 and 6.

Tasks are connected, scaffolded, and supported with feedback so you can develop confidence, critical thinking, and professional judgement.

By applying what you’ve learned to authentic challenges, you’ll demonstrate the skills, knowledge, and behaviours needed to thrive in modern football environments.

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USW has strong connections with football organisations across Wales, giving you the chance to gain real-world experience through placements in academies, backroom teams, and community programmes.

You’ll work alongside professionals, develop your skills, and boost your employability. Opportunities include summer placements with US partners and our annual employability conference, where you can network with employers and experience the recruitment process, helping you prepare for a career in football coaching, performance, and leadership.

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You’ll develop your skills at USW Sport Park, our purpose-built performance centre. Train on our full-size indoor 3G pitch, built to FIFA Pro standard and regularly used by our partners, professional teams and the Welsh international squads.

You’ll also work in our specialist strength and conditioning centre and high-spec performance analysis suite. Outside, we have five floodlit pitches and a wide range of grass and artificial surfaces for practical coaching, training, and match-play.

Our facilities give you the space, equipment, and professional environment to practice, experiment, and develop your coaching and football performance skills.

### Team Spotlight

You’ll learn from a team connected to every level of the game, from grassroots to international elite football performance.

Jayne Ludlow brings insight as a former international manager, FIFA consultant, TV pundit, Pro Licence coach and Champions League winner with Arsenal. Jonathan Jones adds national team experience and coaching knowledge, while Dr Lee Baldock explores performance psychology through applied practice. Liviu Cristea offers insight shaped by Newcastle United, and Ioan Paval links the course to analysis and coaching support.

The team includes Professor Brendan Cropley, who leads the Football Research Centre in Wales.

## Career Prospects

As the game continues to evolve, there is growing demand for skilled coaches and performance practitioners who can support player development, enhance performance, and create positive sporting environments. Studying football coaching and performance gives you the opportunity to develop the practical skills, industry knowledge, and professional experience needed to make an impact across the modern game.

### Your future career

This degree connects directly to FAW and UEFA coaching pathways and aligns with current industry roles, preparing graduates for careers in coaching, performance analysis, talent identification and recruitment, academy player development, and multidisciplinary performance support across modern football environments.

Football Coaching (Head Coach / Assistant Coach – Elite and Grassroots)

Talent Identification

Performance Analysis

Sport Development

Performance Management

96% of USW Sport graduates are in Employment and/or Further Study 15 months after graduation

(Graduate Outcomes Survey 2022/23)

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> "One of the best aspects of my course has been the immediate industry exposure. Within weeks of starting, I secured a voluntary placement with Pontypridd United."

Shubham Trivedi, Football Coaching and Performance student

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### Industry partners

Our strong links with organisations like the FAW, FAW Trust, Cardiff City, Swansea City, and community football groups give you direct access to industry experts. Learn from guest lectures, engage in placements, and connect at our annual Sports Employability Conference. You’ll also have opportunities to get involved in research projects led by our football department staff at the Centre for Football Research in Wales.

### Salary expectations

A Football Coaching and Performance degree can open opportunities across football and the wider sport sector. Sport careers offer strong earning potential:

Median wage

UK: £31.4k per annum

Wales: £29.8k per annum

Total jobs in 2025

UK: 644,306

Wales: 26,817

## Entry Requirements

### Additional

GCSEs: The University normally requires a minimum 5 GCSEs including Mathematics/Numeracy and English at Grade C or Grade 4 or above, or their equivalent, but consideration is given to individual circumstances.

An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check on the Child Workforce and Child Barring List and subscription to the DBS Update Service is required. (Overseas equivalent required for non-uk applicants).

### Contextual offers

We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.

USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.

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112 UCAS points or above

#### Typical qualification requirements

A Level:

BBC to include a Science subject or PE and to exclude General Studies. Level 1 in football coaching or equivalent foundation level football coaching qualification from a football (NGB) (this is equivalent to 112 UCAS tariff points)

Welsh BACC:

Pass the Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate Diploma with Grade C in the Skills Challenge Certificate and BB at A Level to include one Science (which may be Mathematics, Physical Education or Psychology) but to exclude General Studies. Level 1 in football coaching or equivalent

BTEC Extended Diploma Distinction Merit Merit in a relevant subject. Level 1 in football coaching or equivalent foundation level football coaching qualification from a football (NGB) (this is equivalent to 112 UCAS tariff points)

Access to HE:

Passing an Access to HE Diploma in a relevant subject (mathematics, science or psychology) and obtain a minimum of 112 UCAS tariff points

### International applications welcomed:

We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence, please view our dedicated country pages .

International students Pre-Sessional English

### English language requirements

International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 4 overall and a minimum of 4 in each component or equivalent.

Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages .

If you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.

If you do not meet the English entry criteria, please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages .

## Fees and Funding

UK Full-Time Fee £ 9,790

per year

UK Part-Time Fee £ 804

per 20 credits

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## [Button: Further information ]

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy.

We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

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As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.

This fee includes £40 for the enhanced DBS certificate, the Post Office Administration fee and the online administration fee. £55.42

DBS Updating Service *

Subscription required for each year of the course for a yearly fee of £13. Please note the service has to be joined within 30 days of receipt of your enhanced DBS certificate. £13

Travel to Placement

Cost is dependent on placement location.

International Full-Time Fee £ 17,200

## What sets us apart?

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## Sport facilities

Step into a high-performance sport environment, from elite pitches and advanced labs to a fully equipped strength and conditioning suite. Everything here is designed to help you train, test and perform at your best.

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Our full-size indoor 3G pitch is built to the Fifa Pro standard and guarantees training all year round. We are the only university in England and Wales to offer this facility.

We also have a notational analysis suite and over 30 acres of playing fields. We have a sand-dressed 'AstroTurf' pitch, as well as a full-size FIFA approved 3G pitch. Our facilities are regularly used by international teams, such as the Wales national football team and Cardiff City Football Club.

## How to apply

All applications for full-time undergraduate courses or foundation degrees should be made via UCAS. Take the next step: Apply through UCAS

You can apply to us directly for all part-time undergraduate courses, if you’re seeking advanced entry or you’re an international student. To apply directly, please choose the application form below for your preferred start date and mode of study (full-time or part-time).

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## Advanced entry

If you already have a relevant qualification or experience related to the course you're applying for, you may be eligible to start at a later stage of the course. For example, students from partner colleges can ‘top up’ their qualifications to a degree by joining us in Year Two or Year Three of a course. This process is known as ‘advanced entry’, you can apply directly to the University for 'advanced entry' using the application forms provided above.

Applicants accepted through advanced entry may study a different combination of modules to those advertised, as they will be joining a course already in progress. You will be contacted and advised about these modules once your application has been processed and an offer made.

## International admissions

International applicants can apply to us directly. If the University has an in-country team in your region, your application will be assigned to them for assistance.

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## Student Stories

> The practical experience, combined with USW’s cutting-edge facilities, has been invaluable.

Shubham Trivedi Football Coaching Student

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