Football Coaching and Performance
Football coaching and performance is a degree that examines the science, theory, and practice of developing players and teams to perform effectively at all levels of the game. Football is the world's most widely played and watched sport, and the coaches and performance specialists who support its practitioners at professional, semi-professional, and grassroots levels draw on a rich combination of sports science, pedagogy, tactical analysis, and leadership. Understanding how players learn, how teams develop tactical cohesion, and how physical preparation interacts with technical and psychological development is central to the discipline.
At the University of Chichester, this three-year BSc provides the knowledge, skills, and practical experience of contemporary football coaching. You will study the theories, concepts, and practices that underpin both team and individual performance, covering the physiological and biomechanical demands of the game, sports psychology as applied to football, coaching methodology, player development, tactical analysis, and the organisation and management of football programmes. The programme is both scientifically rigorous and practically oriented, developing your ability to apply knowledge directly to coaching and performance support roles.
Chichester's strong connections to football and sport more broadly, and its focus on producing graduates with both academic grounding and applied competence, mean you will develop a portfolio of coaching practice alongside your theoretical knowledge.
Graduates from football coaching and performance degrees pursue careers as football coaches at academy, community, and professional levels, as performance analysts, sports scientists within football clubs, strength and conditioning coaches, sports development officers, and sports administrators. Some go on to work within national governing bodies, football associations, or elite performance departments. Postgraduate study in sports coaching, sport and exercise science, or performance analysis is available for those who wish to develop their expertise further.