BSc (Hons) Manchester City Community Football Coaching

This three-year programme offers the opportunity to hone cutting-edge coaching skills and knowledge in the real world, by working in partnership with Manchester City F.C.’s City in the Community Foundation. As such, it’s a course that looks beyond the boundaries of football coaching, helping you harness a broad range of sporting activity to make a meaningful impact on people’s health and lifestyle.

In your first year, you’ll look at the fundamentals of coaching, as well as issues around sport in society and the policies and practices of sport. You’ll also work on the research skills vital for tackling the academic aspects of the course.

Building on those areas in your second year, you’ll move onto more advanced areas of sport coaching and research methods. You'll also gain insight into strength and conditioning and performance analysis.

In your final year, you’ll engage in advanced modules in community sport coaching, contemporary issues in sport and global sporting perspectives. Finally, the degree programme finishes off with a research project of your own design, in a topic of your choosing.

Crucially, each year also includes work-based learning modules with City in the Community, where you’ll put the theory into practice and complete professional coaching qualifications – stepping out of the classroom and onto the training pitches at the state-of-the-art Etihad campus. You’ll help deliver a series of initiatives that harness sport to promote health, education and inclusion. So rather than coaching elite players or unearthing the next academy prospect, you’ll work with various community groups, developing real-world skills while you make a real-world impact.

The Etihad campus offers a brilliant environment for it all. And we know a thing or two about incredible campuses – it’s not long since we cut the ribbon on our £26 million Institute of Sport facility, which not only offers first-class spaces for your studies, but state-of-the-art physiology labs, performance analysis facilities and advanced imaging equipment too.