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Football – Level 3

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About the course

If you are looking for a career in the football industry, then look no further. Our excellent football provision gives you the chance to play, study and achieve with an action-packed curriculum and fixture list. We travel all over the country competing against other college’s as well giving you first-hand coaching, officiating and organisational experience. We host local school events here at the college, giving you the chance to host and run local competitions. The course includes lots of great trips and visits and the chance to meet a whole host of professional coaches and others in roles across the football industry. This course has a long list of alumni that have gone on to become professional coaches, achieving high level FA badges as well as their sports coaching based degrees.

Topics and units

Units:
– Technical and tactical skills
– Rules, regulations and officiating
– Sports performance analysis
– Sports psychology
– Anatomy and physiology
– Fitness for training and programming
– Sports leadership
– Practical sports performance
– Professional development in the sports industry
– Coaching for performance
– Research methods in sport
– Development and provision of sport
– Business in sport
– Skill acquisition

*Students will also get the opportunity to complete:
L1 coaching in football
L1 officiating in football
First aid qualification
NCS Citizenship Award

Careers and progression

Sports based degree at University/Employment

Entry requirements

4 GCSE’s at grade 4 or above including English or Maths

What to do next

If you are interested in applying for this course, please click ‘apply now‘ on this page or at the top of any page, and create an website account or sign in an account you have already created and complete the application form. 

To find out more information about our courses and college life, you can visit an open event to meet our team and check out our facilities for yourself.

Type

Full Time

Duration

2 Year

Campus

Haybridge Road, Telford

Support

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Talk to us

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Upcoming events

Open event
22 January 2025
5.00pm — 7.30pm
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Open event
12 March 2025
5.00pm — 7.30pm
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