BSc(Hons)FootballCoaching&Performance

The range of careers open to Football Coaching & Performance graduates is vast. You could find yourself working in a range of exciting settings including:

• Community and grassroots Football
• Private football coaching
• Professional Football Clubs or Academies
• Football Development Centre
• High Performance Sports
• Sport Science
• Health and fitness industry
• Personal training and fitness consultancy
• Weight management & Health promotion
• Personal fitness training
• Sports or physical activity development
• National Governing Bodies
• Teaching in schools or higher education institutions
• Career in sport research

Jobs – specific roles

• Performance Analyst
• Player development coach
• Academy Coach
• Grassroots or community coach
• Talent recruitment (ID and Scouting)
• Technical coach
• Football club manager
• Sport Scientist
• Safeguarding Manager
• Player Welfare officer
• PE Teacher, college lecturer or school games coach
• Community development officer

Careers – key companies

• Professional football club academies
• Community and non-league football clubs
• Club community organisations
• Other Professional sports teams
• University Sports Departments
• Teaching personnel
• Further and Higher Education institutions
• National governing bodies
• Masters and PhD studies.

The University’s Employability Service can help you to develop your employability skills and get some valuable work experience. We provide workshops, events and one to one support with job hunting, CVs, covering letters, interviews, networking and so on. We also support you in securing part-time work, placements, internships, and volunteering opportunities, and offer an enterprise support service for those looking to start their own business.

Placements and work experience will give you excellent opportunities to gain hands-on and real-life experience. You’ll complete a minimum of 50 hours of placement within Year 3 of your studies, but we always recommend you do more throughout your time with us and we will support you in doing so.

You’ll receive help and support in identifying a suitable placement as well as with applications if required. Guaranteed placement opportunities exist within Watford FC CSE Trust including our player development centre, football education programmes community sessions and camps. Other placement opportunities are available at our local partner clubs and organisations as well as schools, colleges, university sports clubs, local sports development projects, charities and fitness centres.

Placements and internships greatly improve graduate employment prospects, and those who take part achieve excellent academic results through applying their learning in a professional setting.

Stone X Stadium:

The London Sport Institute has a new centre for high tech training at the West Stand, Stone X Stadium in partnership with Saracens Rugby Club. London Sport Institute’s facilities in West Stand at Stone X Stadium give you unique access to academy and elite players and coaches.

The space gives you access to advanced technologies to get ahead of the game with spaces including:

• Biomechanics room
• Strength and conditioning training space
• Physiology labs
• Performance analysis specialist room
• Rehabilitation treatment rooms
• New cognition labs and clinic

Your learning experience with London Sport Institute will mirror real life practice with tech for motion capture, force sensing plates in walls and floors, full body scanning, computer analysis and analysis of blood, urine and cortisol.

Cedars Youth & Community Centre:

a £4.2 million purpose-built centre including a large classroom (flexible space), Sports Hall, 4G astro-turf pitch, social space, community gym and kitchen facilities which students can use. The centre is also accessible for disabled people. Students will have their practical Coaching and Talent ID modules delivered here as well as theory modules such as player welfare, safeguarding and EDI.

We also have access to Watford FC’s Vicarage Rd stadium where students will be doing some theory sessions in both the player’s lounge and media suite. Students will also have a field trip to Watford FC’s Training Ground.

UniHelp is the University’s central service through which you can access a range of support for the kinds of concerns that might arise throughout your study here, and details of all support available to you can be found here. Some of the services include:
Counselling and Mental Health Team – providing mental wellbeing support and a confidential individual counselling service to help you manage any challenges affecting you emotionally or psychologically that you might face while you study with us. This service also provides a Monday to Friday drop-in session for which no appointment is needed;
Disability and Dyslexia Service – supporting an inclusive teaching and learning environment which caters for all students. North London Regional Access Centre – offering needs assessments, assistive technology training, advice and support for disabled students;
Student Welfare Advice Team – providing information and advice on money and funding matters, and housing;
International Student Advice Team – providing information and advice on visa and immigration concerns, for both international applicants and current international students;
Chinese Student Liaison Officer – providing assistance to Chinese-speaking students of our community;
Student Wellbeing Coordinator – providing information about and support with health matters.
Personal Development Planning (PDP)

Full details on how we quality assure our programmes can be found here.
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) is an independent agency appointed by the UK Government to be responsible for upholding the academic quality and standards of all universities and colleges in the UK.  The QAA produce the UK Quality Code which outlines the key expectations placed on all UK Higher Education providers.  In particular, there is specific guidance on how institutions should manage partnership arrangements, such as the programme you are now enrolled on.
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) UK Quality Code, Advice and Guidance: Partnerships.
The QAA also review higher education providers to ensure that they are operating in line with the Quality Code and providing the best academic experience for its students. You can also learn more about Quality Assurance at: http://www.qaa.ac.uk/quality-code.
The Student Protection Plan
One of the Middlesex University core values is ‘We put students first’.  We have a regulatory framework to support student continuation of study. The Student Protection Plan covers an assessment of the range of risks to the continuation of study for our students, and the measures put in place to mitigate those risks, arrangements for refund and compensation. Full details of the Student Protection Plan are available here.

Yes. As you will be registered as a Middlesex University Student, you will be eligible to join a range of sports teams and societies within the University. There is a membership fee required to participate in sports teams but this does not fully cover the cost of competitions, travel, equipment, coaching and playing facilities. Sports teams usually compete on a Wednesday. You will not be timetabled to have any lessons on Wednesdays to allow for this. For further information on Sports teams at Middlesex University, please click here.

Yes. If you’re moving away from home for university, then Middlesex University can help you find accommodation. The University can also help you to find you a private rented place in London. For more information on student accommodation please visit the University Accommodation webpage.

You can study BSc (Hons) Football Coaching & Performance either part-time or full-time. You can make an application through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). If it is a late application (after July for a September start, you can call the University Admisisons Clearing hotline on 020 8411 6565).

What you need to know

Middlesex University institution code is M80

Course Code: C611

Apply Now

Students can start applying from 1 September so make your application as soon as you’ve found the right course and university. If you can, make sure that your application reaches UCAS by 15 January.

UCAS sends the University all applications it receives after this date so you can still apply after January where places are still available. We can’t guarantee however that we’ll be able to give late applications the same consideration as earlier applications.

Your application will be considered by both Middlesex University and Watford FC Community Sports and Education Trust. An interview may be required before an offer will be made and all offers are subject to a DBS check.

Although you will be a student of Middlesex University, you’re studying is split equally between the Stone X Stadium campus in Hendon and Cedars Youth & Community Centre in Harrow. You will of course have full access to the University’s main campus in Hendon and addresses to these sites can be found below:

Stone X Stadium
Greenlands Ln, London, NW4 1RL.
Free onsite parking is available for students except on matchdays.
For further information on directions and travel click here

Middlesex University Main Campus
Greyhound Hill, Hendon, NW4 4BT
No parking available.
Campus is located 10 minutes from the Northern line and Thameslink rail line, both of which take you to central London in under 30 minutes.

Cedars Youth & Community Centre
Chicheley Road, Harrow Weald HA3 6QH
Free parking available onsite and on local side roads.
For further information on getting to Cedars, please click here

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