Football Coaching (With Professional Practice Year) BA (Hons)

We offer three football-related pathways (coaching, studies or business) where you choose your preferred specialism after your first year. This course prepares you to work as a skilled coach across a variety of football settings. You learn a range of coaching skills to help you deliver and plan training sessions; evaluate performances; implement improvement strategies; and put your learning into practice in football-related scenarios. There are also opportunities for placements, including with our official Education Partners, Luton Town FC. <br/><br/>**Professional Practice Year**<br/>Take your course over four years and include a Professional Practice Year after your second year of studies. It is an opportunity to apply your learning in the workplace while enhancing your knowledge and skills through fee-free paid practice. It also builds your CV and industry contacts with many students progressing to employment within their practice-year organisation or institution.<br/><br/>**Facilities and Specialist Equipment**<br/>- Purpose-built strength and conditioning facility. <br/><br/><br/>- Free gym and Olympic weight room. <br/><br/><br/>- Sports arena.<br/><br/><br/>- Multi-use games areas. <br/><br/><br/>- Sports therapy and rehabilitation centre with a sports injury clinic, open to staff, students and external athletes/clients.<br/><br/><br/>- Sports massage rooms.<br/><br/><br/>- Industry-leading performance-analysis equipment, including a Nacsport camera system, In-Play Sports online performance analysis and Catapult GPS system.<br/><br/><br/>**Partnerships and Collaborations**<br/>- We are official Education Partners of Luton Town FC. We also enjoy working relationships with other football clubs and organisations, giving you the opportunity to put your learning into practice.<br/><br/><br/>- We are also a Higher Education Partner of the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA).<br/><br/><br/>**Your Student Experience**<br/>- Our Bedford campus is a small, thriving academic community where academic staff get to know you well. <br/><br/><br/>- You also have the support of your own personal academic tutor who will guide and support you throughout your student journey. <br/><br/><br/>- Gain valuable work experience at our Human Performance Centre, which offers testing to sports people, teams and the public for fitness, flexibility and body composition assessments. <br/><br/><br/>- Take advantage of coaching opportunities with local schools and football clubs. <br/><br/><br/>- Gain recognised awards such as FA Coaching Level 1 (Introduction to Coaching Football) and Level 2 (UEFA C). <br/><br/><br/>- Take part in behind-the-scenes tours and match-day experiences to football clubs such as Luton Town FC and MK Dons as well as local football organisations and non-league clubs. <br/><br/><br/>- Field trips include St George’s Park, Burton-on-Trent, the home of England Football, and football clubs around the country<br/>