Developing the player

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Analyse performance within the attacking and defending principles of play.
• Design practices specific to the needs of individual players.
• Link the design of practices to match day and player’s role specific requirements.   

Course duration

Four days split over a variety of templates with an optional assessment

Course fees

£290 - Charter standard club member from Suffolk
£310 - Non-Charter standard club/Out of County

Please note you will be eligible for £100 bursary upon successful completion of the course.


Course pre-requisites

• Active FA Licensed Coaches’ Club Member
• 1st4Sport Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Football
• The FA Youth Award Modules 1 and 2
  OR
• UEFA B Licence and FA Youth Coaches Award
  OR
• UEFA B Licence and FA Goalkeeping B Licence

Who is it for?

Module 3 is designed to support the development of coaches who currently coach a group of youth players (Aged between 5 – 21yrs) on a regular basis within the performance or grassroots areas of the game.

Course content

Workshops will consider:

• Plan, do, review
• Principles of play
• Intervention strategies
• Questioning techniques
• Focus on ‘whole-part-whole’ practices
• Building challenges in trial and error

Pre-course task

Candidates will receive a pre-course reading pack three weeks prior to the course, which they are required to read and complete in advance. 

Candidates should arrive at the course with ideas around their own development.  These may be areas of development the coach would like to improve on and/or areas of strength which the coach would like to build on further.

Certificates of attendance will be issued following submission of completed log book. This does not commit candidates to undergo assessment for The FA Youth Award as this is optional.

Course assessment

There is an option to undertake an assessment at the conclusion of this module to complete The FA Youth Award.  This will cover key elements across Modules 1, 2 & 3 of The FA Youth Award.  Candidates will be required to return log books to FA Learning at least four weeks prior to the date of final assessment. The assessment process will be decided in consultation with the Course Director but where possible will be a club site assessment.

Course Dates