Hi everyone. From the response the topic about FFA coaching badges received it has become obvious that there is a lack of information and/or the ability to attain such information about coaching courses and badges. A lot of the comments were in response to the prices of the FFA courses and the general curiosity about doing badges in other local, interstate and/or international locations.

My hope for this thread is that we can pile together all and any information we know or we find about these courses, just to make a general resource for anybody to come and have a look at. If you are curious about anything that is not on this page, please request it as I'd be more than happy to find out for you.

All said and done - I hope this can help whoever is looking for the help and information. Good luck on your coaching journey!



The list is beginning to become quite long, which is great. It has the drawback of making things a little more difficult to find though. If you are curious about the situation in a specific country's federation, I suggest searching this page for the abbreviation of the country's federation name. So for instance, if you want to quickly find out about courses that are held in Sweden, you should search for SvFF.


As many of the sites and information listed below will be in a language other than English, I recommend using either Google Translate to translate any of the information you are looking for, or to make life easier, download Google Chrome Browser to help you out as it has a built in translator for most of the world's major languages.

I realise that most of the people that read this either only speak English, or speak English as their native language. To make it easier to find federations that offer courses in English on this page, simply search this page for (En), brackets included. Each federation that offers courses in English will have this mark next to it.

Edited by Draupnir: 23/5/2012 01:32:49 AM

Edited by Joffa: 23/5/2012 12:19:52 PM

Official Website

AFC Coach Education Policy and Procedures - This one is well worth a read for anybody who is seriously considering doing their badges. It contains all the information about progressing through the ranks of the badges and what is to be expected.
AFC Coaching Instructor Education Policy and Procedures - For coaching instructors



AFC Pro-Diploma Badge
AFC A Badge
AFC B Badge
AFC C Badge
AFC Level 1, 2 and 3 Goalkeeping Badge
AFC Level 1, 2 and 3 Futsal Badges
AFC Conditioning/Fitness Course



There isn't a lot of information on the FFA site about individual coaching courses. I recommend viewing the pathways documents below to find more detailed information.

Official Website
Minimum Coaching Requirements - Answers all your questions about what course or badge you need to have completed to be able to manage a team in any given Australian competition.
Overseas Course/Certificate Conversion - The most important document to read if you plan on completing courses overseas for use in Australia. Covers information about converting certificates, analogue certificates and so on.
Football Federation Australia National Curriculum - Great document. Has an overwhelming amount of information regarding coaching and playing pathways and methods and principles. Worth having a read through if you have the time.


Community Course Pathway List and Information - Lists, summaries and location information for all of the national community coaching courses. Good place to start!
Advanced Pathway List and Information - For when you are ready to make the step up from the community based courses. Application forms and locational information.



As the development of players in each state and territory is overseen by the FFA, I recommend viewing the documents listed above in conjunction with the relevant documents listed for your state federation. If no resource to determine when a course will be delivered in your region is provided below, check the FFA information above.


Official Website
Course Calendar
Course Information - Worth reading for anybody planning on doing an FFA community course inside or outside of the ACT.



Official Website
Date and location overview of courses - Mainly relevant to Metropolitan Sydney areas.
Player Curriculum - Ages 7 - 8
Player Curriculum - Ages 9 - 10
Player Curriculum - Ages 11 - 12
Player Curriculum - Ages 13 - 14
Player Curriculum - Ages 15 - 16
Note: The player curriculum guides are all offline at the moment.



Official Website
Course Schedule



Official Website
Coach Education
Coaching Clinics



Official Website
Coaching Courses Overview - Links to FFA documents.



Official Website
Course Schedule



Official Website
FFV Workshops
FFV Coaching FAQs - Well worth reading for everybody, even those outside of Victoria.



Official Website
Course Schedule

Japan/JFA
General information

As the JFA site and information is in Japanese, I recommend referring to my tips at the bottom of my first post. All course and badge applications are expected to be in Japanese.

Official Website
Coaching Pathways Overview
JFA Coaching Philosophy and History
Coaching Course FAQ


JFA Class A - AFC A Badge
JFA Class B - AFC B Badge
JFA Class C - This link provides details of the regional and district federations as they provide training for the Class C course.
JFA Class D - Same as the Class C procedure.
Children's Training Workshop - Same as the Class C procedure.
Goalkeeper Class A - Check the information under Goalkeeper Class A on this page, curses schedules are released once per year in March.
Goalkeeper Class B (Youth - U18)
Goalkeeper Class C (Youth - U15)


Refresh Courses Summary - Information on locations and prices and summaries of each course. Provides a schedule for when refreshment courses need to be undertaken.



Official Website
Coach Development Pathway
National Football Syllabus


Course guide/summary for FAS preliminary and AFC A, B and C badges
Contact, price and course information for the FAS preliminary badge and AFC A Badge- Information about progressing through the ranks of the badges and what is to be expected of you.

Note; Singaporean citizens and permanent residents are given priority access to these courses over other applicants. You will only be offered a place if there is an available slot that is not taken by a citizen or resident.



Official Website
Conference Schedule


Simply said, there isn't a great deal of information available from the CSA on coaching courses. If I am honest, there situation seems lacking. Below are the few pages of information worthy of reading if you're interested in applying for any courses.

Official Website
Coaching Pathways
Coach Education Program - Overview of the different coaching pathways available, as well as information and summaries of each level certification.



National Curriculum - Part 1 - Style and Principles of Play
National Curriculum - Part 2 - Concepts and Coaching Guidelines - Warning, large file.
National Curriculum - Part 3 - Age Group Organization
National Curriculum - Part 4 - Planning and Training - Warning, large file.
Coaching Pathways
Course Schedule Listing


A Licence
B Licence
C Licence
D Licence - This course is administered by individual state federations.
E Licence - This course is administered by individual state federations.
Adult Licence
Youth Licence
Fitness Level I
Goalkeeping Licence - Compliments the A and B Licences




Official Website
Coaching Level Pyramid
Course Schedule


Official Website
New Zealand Football WoFP (Whole of Football Plan) - Document that provides a detailed overview of the coaching pathways NZF offers. Coaching, referring, admin and playing.
Coaching Pathways Overview
New Zealand Football Events Calendar - Information on matches as well as coaching courses.


Junior (Grassroots) Coaching Courses - These are run by local and district federations.
Youth Coaching Courses - These are run by local and district federations.
Senior Coaching Courses - These are run by regional bodies.





UEFA titled badges and courses are run by individual member federations and associations, and as such there is little to no information on UEFA's official website about coaching pathways.



Official Website
FA Coaching Pathways - Analogous to the FFA pathway documents. This document simply provides information about starting points, finishing points and additional coaching courses that can be undertaken ranging from introductory youth modules to the UEFA Pro licence, as well as separate courses on specific positional play, disabled footballing and futsal.

FA Coaching Pathways - A slightly more in depth overview between the relationships of the different pathway choices and how they interact.


FA Online Courses - Yes, you read it right. The English FA provides online courses that are both informative and more importantly, cheap. There are even a few that are free. There are specific football related courses like Laws of the Game, but also general courses that don't revolve around football as a whole, such as Introduction to Equality and Diversity. Some of these courses are more serious than others and require upwards of 20 hours of study, but with the amount of information on offer and a certificate from the FA that is received upon completion, I feel it's a decent investment.

These online courses are either done directly through the FA website, which you'll need to create an account for, or they are done directly through local association websites, which you will need to sign up for a free account to get access. Whether you do it through the FA site or the local FA site doesn't matter and is determined by what course you intend to do.

FA National Courses List - Location and price information for courses including the UEFA A, B, Pro Diploma courses and specialist courses like Psychology, First Aid and Fitness training courses.

FA Local County Courses - This page is down at the moment. When it is up it contains location and price information about grassroots and community football courses.




As the FFF site and information is in French, I recommend referring to my tips at the bottom of my first post. All course and badge applications are expected to be in French.

Official Website
Schedule of Courses and Badges
Schedule of Courses and Badges - General Training (Football Business)

Grassroots courses are administered by local and district associations. Advanced level courses and badges are run by the FFF and/or INF (Football Training Institute), primarily at the famed Clairefontaine centre.


Initial Course I - Grassroots and children's coaching (6-11) course.
Initial Course II - Youth team management and technical assistance.
Senior Management Course
BEES 1 Diploma - UEFA B Badge - District League Version


BEES 1 Diploma - UEFA B Badge - INF/FFF Version -
Diploma I - UF1 - Formation and Tactical Knowledge
Diploma II - UF2/UF3 - Advanced Formation and Tactical Knowledge
Professional Coach Diploma - UEFA Pro Diploma
Professional Coach Diploma - UEFA Pro Diploma - With focus on technical direction.
Goalkeeping Certificate
Fitness Coach Certificate



DEPF Continuation Course

There are more courses available from the FFF that I will continue to update. If you are looking for speficic information about a course that isn't listed here, just post your question and I will get back to you.



As the DFB site and information is in German, I recommend referring to my tips at the bottom of my first post. All course and badge applications are expected to be in German.

Official Website
Overview of Coaching Pathways
Calendar of Course and Badge Events
Licencing Prerequisites



DFB Grassroots C Course


DFB Pro Diploma
DFB A Badge
DFB B Badge
DFB C Badge



Official Website


Kick Start 1 - Grassroots and children's (6-9) coaching.
Kick Start 2 - Grassroots and children's coaching (9-12)
Youth Certificate
Senior Intro
Goalkeeper Introduction


UEFA Pro Licence
UEFA A Badge
UEFA B Badge

Goalkeeper A Licence
Goalkeeper B Licence
Medical Workshops - These courses are required for the UEFA B Badge, Goalkeeping B Licence and Youth Certificate.
Small Sided Games Workshop
Strength and Conditioning Course
Futsal Course
Disability Football Workshop



As the KNVB site and information is in Dutch, I recommend referring to my tips at the bottom of my first post.

Official Website
KNVB Coaches and Training Homepage - The first stop for all the information you'll be looking for. Links to all and any information about KNVB courses and study that you'll need.

KNVB Academie - Homepage for the KNVB online studies. You will need to register to be able to login to this section of the website. Keep in mind that a lot of these courses require you to be able to participate in specifically planned training sessions in The Netherlands. In Dutch and English.

Football Management Course (Business)




The KNVB uses the terms "F-Pupillen", "E-Pupillen" and "D-Pupillen" which translate to "F, E and D pupils", respectively. Essentially these are children's categories where different techniques and abilities are taught. D-Pupils are the first group of young players that get to play with the offside rule and on a fully sized pitch.

All of the below links contain information on prices and locations as well as course summaries.

F Level Pupil Course
E Level Pupil Course
D Level Pupil Course
Pupil Trainer - This course is a combination of the F, E and D courses.
Youth Football Training Course
Junior Trainer (13-19)
Technical Youth Coordinator II
Techincal Youth Coordinator III
G-Football - Training For Disabled Persons
Goalkeeping Level II Course
Goalkeeping Level III Course



UEFA C Badge - KNVB Trainer Coach III for Senior Players Course
UEFA C Badge - KNVB Trainer Coach for Youth Players Course
UEFA B Badge
UEFA A Badge - Trainer Coach I for Senior Players
UEFA A Badge - Trainer Coach I for Youth Players
UEFA Pro Diploma



Dealing With Problem Behaviour
Developing Playing Style
Training Facilitation




Dirk has let us know that he's heard that the professional Irish courses and badges might be marked a little easier than else where. Check them out.

Many of the Northern Irish courses and badge pages don't contain too much information, simply price, location and payment methods. The names are fairly self explanatory and if you're not sure, compare and contrast them to the closest UEFA badge.

Official Website
IFA National Coaching Booklet - Document with information on the IFA coaching ladder and summaries of all the courses listed below.


IFA Level I
IFA Level II
IFA Grassroots Introduction
Goalkeeping Certificate


IFA Level V - UEFA Pro Diploma (A Badge Part II)
IFA Level IV - UEFA A Badge (A Badge Part I)
IFA Level III - UEFA B Badge

Goalkeeping Diploma
IFA Youth Certificate
Level 2 Disabled Award
Level I Disabled Award



As the NFF site and information is in Norwegian, I recommend referring to my tips at the bottom of my first post. Norway is fairly accommodating to English speakers so it may be worth your time to get in contact with the federation if you would like to train for any courses or badges there.

Official Website
Club Management Courses - Courses aimed at developing club management skills. From football philosophy to how to run a canteen.


"ABCs" Course - A very basic introduction to the rules of football for aspiring coaches and managers.
NFF C Licence - Childrens and youth football. The starting point of the Norwegian coach training pyramid.


UEFA Pro Licence
UEFA A Licence
UEFA B Licence



The Scottish FA provides a great amount of information and courses. Check out any one of the below links to get an idea. They do get a little pricey on the upper tiers.

Official Website
National Coaching Brochure - Coaching pathways information and summaries. Lists of locations, prices and courses.


Children's Level I - Early Touches Certificate
Children's Level II - Coaching Young Footballers
Children's Level III - Coaching in the Game
Children's Level IV - Basic Children's Award
Children's Level V - Advanced Children's Licence

Youth Level I - Development Activities Certificate
Youth Level II - Coaching Youth Footballers Certificate
Youth Level III - Coaching in the Game Certificate
Youth Level IV - Basic Youth Award
Youth Level V - Youth Licence

Adult Level I - Coach Education
Adult Level II - UEFA Basic Licence Introduction (Equivalent to UEFA B Badge)
Adult Level III - UEFA Basic Licence Assessment (Equivalent to UEFA B Badge)
Adult Level IV - UEFA Advanced Licence Introductory and Assessment (Equivalent to UEFA A Badge)
Adult Level V - UEFA Pro Diploma

Goalkeeper Level IGoalkeeper Level II
Goalkeeper Level III
Goalkeeper Level IV
Goalkeeper Level V

Coaching Footballers With Disabilities




As the RFEF site and information is in Spanish, I recommend referring to my tips at the bottom of my first post.

Official Website
Course in Football Management (Business)
Course in Sports Management (Business)



Grassroots Courses - These are organised by local and district federations.
Monitor Course - Required before enrolling in Coaching Course I.


Coaching Course I
Coaching Course II - Intermediate
Coaching Course III - National Manager/Coach level
Goalkeeping Course



As the SvFF site and information is in Swedish, I recommend referring to my tips at the bottom of my first post. Sweden, just as Norway is, is fairly accommodating to English speakers so it may be worth your time to get in contact with the federation if you would like to train for any courses or badges there.

Sweden has some slightly different options open to aspiring coaches and managers than other countries - They have a multitude of university degrees on football in addition to the regular football courses and badges that are on offer. They provide excellent training and the same certificates as specific courses run by SvFF and local federations. If you find yourself to be a resident there as I did, it may well be worth your time looking into it.

Official Website
Coaching Pathway Overview
Goalkeeping Coaching Overview


These courses are all organised by district associations. Whilst they are called basic, they all lead up to a final "Diplomkurs bas", literally, "Basic Diploma Course", which is equivalent to the UEFA B Badge.

Basic Diploma Course - UEFA B Badge
Kick off - Childrens and grassroots course.
Basic Leadership I
Basic Leadership II
Game/Playing Understanding and Comprehension I
Game/Playing Understanding and Comprehension II
Technique I
Technique II
Training Knowledge I - Coruse on how to run training sessions, warm up and down, health and nutrition for children.
Training Knowledge II - Course on child development and injury prevention.
Goalkeeping I - Introduction to goalkeeping for children. Teaches techniques and prepares them for match situations.
Goalkeeping II - Focusses on training goalkeeping defensive and attacking play and introduces a goalkeeping development plan.


These courses lead up to the UEFA A Badge and Pro Diploma.

Diploma Course - UEFA A Badge
Course I - Leadership, Understanding and Technique.
Course II - Understanding, Technique and Training Knowledge (Physical Training).
Course III - Training Knowledge (Health and Nutrition, Planning Training, Injury Management), Understanding, Goalkeeping and Leadership.

Pro Diploma


Edited by Draupnir: 8/6/2012 02:37:40 AM

Edited by Draupnir: 9/9/2015 07:53:53 PM

Good thread topic, Draupnir.

The AFC pyramid is different from the FFA.

The C Licence courses onwards are the same, considered Advanced Courses here.


Before that in Australia is:

Community Coaching.

Grass Roots Certicficate -2 hours 30 minutes.

Junior Licence - a day

Youth Licence - a few days

Senior Licence - a few days



One usually has to complete all these courses, in this order, before one can do a FFA C Licence.

Edited by Decentric: 17/5/2012 01:27:35 PM

Thanks Decentric!

I am working on the Australian section right now. I'll put both the advanced and community information up.

Hey Decentric - I was just having a look at the community courses and the prerequisites and.. Well, there don't seem to be any. I *know* you're right about the fact that one has to complete them in order to progress to the C license, but do you have a source so I can post it in here.

Best I can find is "It is recommended that candidates complete one or more Community Coaching Courses as ideal preparation for entering the Advanced Pathway".

No I don't, but it was stipulated in the past.

I hope you are right, because I really don't want to do any more Community Coaching courses because the KNVB course has transcended them.

I'm training FFA Community Coaching Course graduates at my club, so I know what they've covered.

Worst you can do is try! If you hold one or more, well that seems like it is the requirements.

Good luck with the C course ;)

(Have you tried enrolling?)

Read somewhere today that a coach had his state coaching badge and is currently completng his FFA 'A' level badge, I have never heard of these badges before can someone please claify?

Edited by victory_12345678910: 18/5/2012 07:15:16 AM

No. I talk to the state TD regularly. There is no course till October.

State coaching badge is an old qualification.

Often a state TD would have a state coaching badge. This would enable him to take community football coaching courses - Grassroots Certificates, Junior, Youth and Senior Licences.

Advanced coaching courses are C , B, A and Pro Licences. A League senior coaches have to have a minimum of an A Licence.

these guys got converted to 'B' and having seen them in action you would have to question the coaching content of the FFA . But hey mint loads of qualified coaches and Berger cross etc must be doing a good job then.

I've read somewhere that Draupnir is doing a FFA Senior Licence soon.

Good luck and provide plenty of detail in this thread about it.:)



I'm inquiring about KNVB for next year, but can't find any info on the KNVB site. There is a US travel group going to Holland for this August.

The KNVB run a training certificate with B and A Licence content in English for about 10 days once a year.

It will be interesting to compare my 7 day KNVB Youth Training Certificate with the FFA C Licence when I do it in October.

We have a couple who occasionally post on here who are frustrated about not getting paid work.

I've also been contacted by others via PM, who are in the same boat. There are not many paid jobs in football in Australia.

Did the Senior License courses earlier this year. Wasn't that happy with it, got a little bit of advice on my communication but that's about it in terms of what I feel I got out of it. Plus I'm still waiting on the FFV to send me certificates and paper work and that's about 4 months down the track.

Would be quite interested in the AFC C license and taking part in a KNVB course, so this thread is great.

Hey krisskrash, thanks for the input. I have enrolled into both the senior certificates and license courses. They start in about 6 weeks. I am not exactly sure what to expect from them but I will post my opinions about them afterwards.

How would you describe the assessment task for the senior license? I am a little nervous about it (slightly shy!).

At the moment for this thread I am working with information from with English FA and the UEFA courses. Ironically the UEFA B residential course is cheaper and longer than the FFA C license.

Post updated with English FA and KNVB information.

Post updated with Swedish (SvFF) and French (FFF) information.

Edited by Draupnir: 22/5/2012 05:29:10 PM

If we could change the model for local clubs there would be a lot more paid jobs.

It's a sad situation, but I really don't think the infrastructure is there for more (and higer) paid jobs to become available. When there are essentially 11 decently paying jobs for somebody who holds say, a UEFA Pro Diploma, in this country due to infrastructure.. Not much can be done.

For those wanting an English speaking UEFA qualification , look at the Irish FA (northern ireland) .
They are apparantly less difficult to pass, might explain Jim Magilton then.

Updated with Spanish (RFEF) information.

Thanks for that information Dirk! I will start collecting the Irish FA/Northern Irish FA stuff right now.

Thanks mate.

I've just emailed the KNVB.


If the French did one in English that would be good too.

This is a brilliant thread for info on courses, Draupnir.=d>


I might submit a request that it becomes a sticky.

No worries :)

Would be amazing if the French had *any* courses in English! The English FA seem to be on the right track though. Time will tell :)

Updated with Irish (FAI) and Northern Irish (IFA) information.

Could some one please explain to me what actually takes place during the following courses. What type of assessment/ grading and also the pass/ failure rate. Also what is the cost to complete them. THANKS

Grass Roots Certicficate

Junior Licence

Youth Licence

Senior Licence



Edited by roar #1: 22/5/2012 10:17:58 PM

Grass Roots Certificate - takes 2 - 2 hours 30 minutes. A certificate is awarded. There is no test. It costs nothing.

Junior Licence- I'm not sure how long it takes. It costs money, probably about $100.

Youth Licence - used to take three days. It used to cost about $150.

Senior Licence - used to take four days. It would cost around $200.



Advanced Courses cost a fortune.

Centalised C Licences cost about $3500 to $5000. They take about 2 weeks. Locally organised C Licence only costs $1600.

Grass Roots Certificate - takes 2 - 2 hours 30 minutes. A certificate is awarded. There is no test. It costs nothing.

Junior Licence- I'm not sure how long it takes. It costs money, probably about $100.

Youth Licence - used to take three days. It used to cost about $150.

Senior Licence - used to take four days. It would cost around $200.

Assessments usually comprise a set task- passing, shooting, dribbling. Then one has to prepare an exercise that deals with the coaching task. One often has to use other players in the course as the players in the assessment.



Advanced Courses cost a fortune.

Centalised C Licences cost about $3500 to $5000. They take about 2 weeks. Locally organised C Licence only costs $1600.

Would just like to add to the info that Decentric provided that if you're looking at moving on to do the Advanced Courses Roar #1, there are no set prerequisites, it's only recommended that you complete at least one of the lower level courses. Best option would probably be to do all of them :)

I've just enrolled in the Senior Certificate I, II and Senior License as a bundle. It is held over 3 days and cost me $190.

Updated with Scottish (SFA) information.

Thanks guys for the help so far. I am just starting to look at getting some formal qualifications. I have been coaching for the last 4 years, I am 20 now and I have been coaching my brothers div 1 club team (he is 3yrs younger then me) I am now coaching a team at my brothers school and I would like to take some courses so that I could eventually coach a top division 14/15 yr old club team.
Just a couple more questions
What level would the senior license allow me to coach at?
Also would many top division junior coaches have say a C license or higher?

Good question.

Not in Tasmania - yet.

I've recently seen an accredited FFA B Licence coach do some unadulterated rubbish on the training track -total anathema to the National Curriculum - with a split state league men's senior team.

One of the best local coaches I've seen, who is unknown to many, only has a FFA Senior Licence. He coaches a women's split state league senior team. His qualifications are two steps lower than the coach using awful stuff. I've picked up some excellent stuff from him.

The senior license is intended for coaching amateur players and clubs. You should essentially see it as a stepping stone to the C license. The Senior License isn't so much a "formal qualification" as opposed to "training". Think of it as TAFE and university level degrees. While they have courses that focus on the same area, the amount of information and the assessment tasks are tailored to a higher level. Krisskrash mentioned on the first page that he completed the Senior License and wasn't too happy with it. Maybe he can shed some more light on his experiences?

When are you planning on doing the Senior License, Roar #1?

I would hazard a guess that not many top junior division coaches would have the C license, simply because it's a new thing, but I honestly don't know. Perhaps someone else in here knows a bit more about how common it is?

If you held a C license and planned to coach a top division junior side, I think you would be well on your way to being right up there with the highest qualified coaches in the junior league (Outside the A-League clubs, of course).

Contact your club (and other clubs in the division) and simply ask about what badges the managers and coaches for specific teams hold. It's a fair question and if anything they would want to advertise how qualified their coaches are :)

Good luck!

Edit: Thanks Decentric!

Edited by Draupnir: 23/5/2012 12:28:57 PM

If you have no FFA qualifications, I'd recommend the Grass Roots certificate. One gets a lot of info in the time, it is free and only takes two hours.

They provide a handbook too.

I dont think there are many part time youth coaches who hold advanced qualifications in Australia, from experience maybe 2-3 per age group in each state.

Exactly victory, there wouldn't be much point in going for a position like that with advanced qualifications.

Post updated with New Zealand Football (NZF) information. Don't want to leave our lovely neighbours out :)

I guess I might start working through them over the next couple of years. I am not really in any hurry. I will have a coaching position open for me at my brothers school for as long as I want it. Bonus is it pays $800 for 8 games and 8 training sessions.


Yes I will work through all of the certificates.





There are 2 main reasons I would go for an advanced qualification; firstly, Just my own personal enjoyment/ developement and secondly, gives me a better chance of moving onto higher level club and rep teams.

As Decentric mentioned, the Grass Roots certificate goes for 2-3 hours only and is free. If you click on the Community Course Pathway List and Information provided in the FFA section in my post, it lists all of the certificates and courses that are being run.

There are quite a few Grass Roots courses being run in Queensland - There's one in Brisbane next month, on a Saturday. Check them out! Good luck :)

Edited by Draupnir: 23/5/2012 02:45:01 PM

Updated with Japanese (JFA) information.

Would be keen to find out the prerequisites for a VCL (Victorian Champions League) coach, If anyone could help me out?

Hey Decentric,

I'd be careful recommending these Grass Roots certificate to just anyone, anywhere. The problem I have found is that what is presented and how is entirely dependent on the facilitator. Some are inclined to stay inside for a lot of it and use pictures, whiteboards or blackboards for demos, especially if the course is 'after hours'.
The ideal presentation will be on the pitch, hands on (so to speak) for the entirety. Not many do this, I have heard that a Tasmanian Southern development officer does an excellent job.
Check around and find out from a reputable source if the facilitator does a decent job, however if you have played and coached for a while skip the grassroots and go straight into the junior license and certificate. The grassroots could well be a waste of time for anyone that has done some practical coaching.

Hey victory, thanks for the question. Just had a look for you, and here is a direct quote from FFV.



So it all depends on which position you are looking at going for. The FFA C Licence would be your best bet, but as it says, you can get away with a Youth or Senior licence depending on the position. If you have any other questions, fire away :)

Updated with United States (USS) information.

Good point.

I'm disgusted with some of what you've said occurs in Grass Roots courses elsewhere.



I'm not going to mention the Southern Tasmanian Development Officer's name, because I'm getting to know him. I think he is doing an outstanding job in most capacities he is involved in. Sometimes he has too much work on his plate. I'm not sure some of his state FFA colleagues now appreciate how tough his job is in schools.

I did a session for two hours in a tough school yesterday to access migrant communities. I've been a teacher of 26-27 years experience. I had a shocker of a class first up. He does this every day without being a trained teacher. He has gone into all the other 17 or so tough schools too. If he does high schools as well one can add another dozen tough ones to his workload.

We will probably be working together a bit in the imminent future too. I've covered his back to other organisations frustrated with state FFA. I'm very impressed with his work in SAP too. One had to drag his predecessor out of the FFA office.

Our state FFA Development Officer's Grass Roots sessions are all hands on throughout the session.

As a club TD I organised 14 coaches to do a Grass Roots course yesterday. Maybe we have a very good instructor down here.

How come you know so much about Grass Root courses around the country? I have a feeling I know you in person.;)

Edited by Decentric: 23/5/2012 10:35:15 PM

Updated with Canadian (CSA) information. Sadly lacking.

Have just been in contact with the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) in regards to non-citizens enrolling in AFC courses there. Priority is given to Singaporean citizens and permanent residents and they will only offer course placements to non-citizens/non-residents if all spots have not been taken up.

Hoping to hear from some other associations in the near future about similar circumstances. Will update when I get any information.

Your doing a great job in this thread Draupnir!

Thanks Ashnak! On a bit of a break from university stuff and I really want to get into coaching/management and realised that it was actually pretty difficult and/or time consuming to just get one's hands on the information. Hopefully this will just make it easier for everyone. I for one have already used it as a shortcut to find some things so that says enough I suppose :)

Are you interested in coaching/management? Have you done any courses?

Edited by Draupnir: 24/5/2012 02:33:01 PM

Have been in contact with the Malaysian Football Association (FAM) about the AFC C License. The C license is conducted on request of the State Associations, and you need to pass a 4 day "D" course to be admitted. They only have maximum 24 places for these courses and I'm not even sure if they do them in English, still waiting for a bit more information.

Will let you guys know!

I am interested in doing the basic coaching badges, the ones run in SA I have heard pretty good things about and they are run regularly. I haven't done any coaching at this stage but I am fascinated by the tactics and techniques of football :)

I honestly hope you are successful in your pursuit of a coaching career, well educated coaches are the missing link at the moment.

You should go along and do them, some of the ones here in NSW are actually free, even the senior license and youth license. When I get around to it, I'm going to update the main post with information about the individual state associations as they run the regional variants of the FFA C course, which is less than half price as well. Keep checking back!

I was thinking about starting up some sort of tactics thread in the performance section because it seems to be completely missing. Lots of talk about technique and that kind of thing, but no actual "deep tactics" discussion is going on. I suppose it might be best left for the experts, but hey, my Championship/Football Manager profiles since CM03/04 aren't doing too badly, haha!

Thanks for the well wishes. I've always been interested in the management side of football, so I guess we'll see if I am up to it! Hope you give it a go too!

Hopefully the people (me included) will keep this thread updated on their progress, results and thoughts about the courses they've taken.

Agree.

It is really good what you've done here, Draupnir.

This is becoming a pretty comprehensive resource for coaches.

I've emailed the KNVB asking for details about the 2013 English Language course, but have heard nothing in response. I wonder whether my old contact there has retired as there have been no replies from his email address in the last few years.

Thanks again Decentric, it's appreciated. Still a lot of work left to go though!

It's a pity you can't get in contact with him, would be good to know what the deal is with the specifically English language courses over there. Let me know if you get a response or any information.

I've mailed a few associations/federations in the last week and am awaiting replies. Mostly Asian federations (As it's a lot cheaper and quicker for Aussies to get over there and get them done), asking about the situation with English courses and requirements for non-citizens. No terribly great news as of yet - unsurprisingly local candidates are favoured over foreigners - but maybe a diamond in the rough will turn up.

I might try and get in contact with someone from the KNVB about English courses, although I have absolutely no contacts over there.

Still haven't heard from the KNVB. I'll send another email.

Let me know of the results (if any..)

I sent one off to the KNVB last week. Got a reply but only to inform me that they had forwarded it to somebody a bit more relevant. Will post any information I get from the reply.

Updated with (the very little) information from FNSW, FQ, FFV and FSA. Will add the others in a little while!

Ironically this info has come to me through an FFA official. A number must visit this site because he asked me if I'd made a comment about FFA C Licence costs on here.

The regional FFA C Licences cost $1600 wherever they are. The one in West Australia is the same as the one in Tasmania. So if you do a regional C Licence in your state, rather than a centralised one, you will probably save $3000 or more.

Thanks for that Decentric.

The one drawback about the regional C Licence is that I am quite sure the days are staggered over a number of weeks/months. That coupled with the fact that they are held in rural areas (travelling money, accommodation money) leads me to think that there wouldn't be a massive advantage after all. If you know of, or hear of a regional C licence course that isn't staggered (ie; residential) it'd be amazing if you let us know!

Good to hear that people off the forum are getting access to this!

PS; No reply from the KNVB yet. Frustrating!

Edited by Draupnir: 1/6/2012 03:56:12 PM

The course is only a few kilometres away from where I live. It is convenient. I'd prefer the staggered course.

Apart from the KNVB course I did, I'm only too pleased when we reach the end of the day at most FFA courses.

I think a lot more people check this website than you think. I know of two FFA staff coaches who do. We also had former FFA Technical Director and Perth Glory senior coach, Ron Smith, who posted a few comments on here.

I did a FFA Goalkeeping Certificate a few weeks ago.

The FFA Goalkeeping Licence is the same except that you are assessed. We had both combined in the course I did.

If I had been assessed I would have struggled. I find it hard to focus on the keeper all the time, when a game is on. I can't help but watch general play, so I gave a number of incorrect observations.

The course was very technical. Some saves require a different grip from times of old. One thing I learnt was that 80% of keepers' touches are with the feet, not hands.






Edited by Decentric: 1/6/2012 04:29:47 PM

I did a First Aid Certificate last weekend. This is a precursory qualification for a Sports Trainers Level 1 Certificate.

When Gregory Parker posted his training sessions, I realised I knew nothing about sports medicine and anatomy.

I have to do the CPR assessment again. I applied so much force, according to the instructor, I would have broken someone's ribs!:oops:

When I was doing the First Aid Certificate, I thought it is better to have someone being responsible for first aid instead of the coach combining the two roles. The instructor taking the course is paid as a sports trainer for aerial ping pong.

I have been doing a little bit of research and came across a document saying that an AFC C license will be recognised the same as a UEFA C license. I then went on to research the UEFA C license but couldnt find any infomation on it, It was then brought to my attention that it was called a FA level 2 certificate in coaching. This course however looks the same as out senior license course with a duration of 75 hours and a 35 minute assessment , my question is how does this compare with a AFC C license which is more similiar to a UEFA B license?

Too bad about the First Aid Certificate Decentric - I'm sure second time around you'll do it. I've got mine later this month so will let everyone know how I go :)

Victory - From what I have gathered, this is the basic structure of the licences.

UEFA Pro Diploma = AFC Pro Diploma
UEFA A = AFC A = FFA A
UEFA B = AFC B = FFA B
UEFA C (FA Level 2, other nationally recognised badges) = AFC C = FFA C
FA Level 1 = FFA Community Licences
FA introductory courses = FFA Community Certificates


The C courses are the introductory courses for the advanced streams in the UEFA and AFC confederations. UEFA countries sort out their own individual prerequisites and attainment levels for the "C" courses, and only at the B level does it really become universally unified. The AFC C level is different in that it is unified throughout the entire region.

The FFA senior license is only a "grassroots" certification. It can help you land a job coaching a community team, school side, regional side, but to make the step up to state/national level you're going to need the official AFC/UEFA C badge minimum. I would compare any of the FFA community courses as on par (speaking solely of the recognitions) with the FA Level 1 badge - That is, they're where one has to work up from to get in to the C badges (Or FA Level 2).

Edited by Draupnir: 6/6/2012 02:02:22 AM

Just got this today. Thinking about it. But don't know if I can afford almost 2k in fees.

Course Details:

AFC/FFA 'C' Licence - Victoria

Date(s) 19 October 2012 to 2 February 2013
Specifically October 2012 - 19th, 20th, 21st, 26th, 27th
November 2012 - 2nd, 3rd, 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 22nd, 30th
February 2013 - 1st, 2nd

Time(s) Weeknights: 6pm – 9.30pm. Weekends: 9am – 5.30pm

Location: State Football Centre – 281 Darebin Road, Thornbury, Victoria, 3071

Cost: $1,980 (including GST)

Where to from here?

1. Check the above dates and times! Are you available to attend all sessions?
Ensure you can attend on all dates and times from 6pm – 9.30pm on weeknights or 9am – 5.30pm on the weekends scheduled.

You will not be allowed to proceed with the course if you miss part of it – NO EXCEPTIONS – you will need to go on a future course if this happens.


2. Confirm your availability to attend the course by COB Wed 20 June, 2012 via return email to Anthony Grima – agrima@footballfedvic.com.au.
We will need to know how many of the current applicants are available for selection before deciding on which candidates will be included in the course.



3. Wait for a decision!

After the application process closes on July 27, we will contact all applicants with a decision. There is no pre-requisite to apply for this course but if the course becomes over-subscribed
(i.e. there are more applicants that places), then coaches with greater playing and/or coaching experience will be given preference. If you are not successful in getting a place on the course, we will endeavor to place you on a future course, but there are no guarantees. All applicants will receive communication of a decision either way.

4. How to pay for the course (if selected)

After July 27 and if you are successful in achieving a place on the course, then you will be expected to pay for the course, prior to commencement. The cost of the course is $1,980 (incl GST). For most of you, this cost would be different than the previous course fee of $1,650 which was advertised before the price change by FFA.

Thanks for that info Kriss. It's pretty pricey. Is Thornbury hard to get to from Melbourne?

Not at all, maybe 20 minutes out of the CBD. Plus everyone involved in football has either played their, coached a game their, or watched a game their at least once.

You should go for it if you can get the cash!

Thread updated with more information about the OFC. Official websites for federations added.

Updated state level information and Australian information. There's now a link to a document in the Australian section describing what course/badge is required to manage or coach at any given level within Australia. Check it out.

Latest England FA UEfA B course, all 17 candidates failed.
Either they have shit coaches or more likely very piss poor coach educators and assessors.

Wow! Do you have a link to an article or anything? I am going over to England in September/October to do a few courses (Emergency First Aid, Children's Safety, FA Level 1) so I will report back on it then. All of those are community courses though, so not the same assessors.

WOW! What an excellent thread Draupnir. You have done a fantastic job on finding all that information.

I just discovered this "sticky" today, I can only forgive myself as you started it while I was away.

It is still only $1650 here.

I spoke to the state FFA TD about people coming from other states. He seemed quite keen, but given it is now being broken up into so many separate days it is not feasible for coaches to travel interstate.

I can see too many weekend days being taken up with it. I'm still going to do it though, although I've already spent 4 days doing FFA Grass Roots, FFA Goalkeeping Certificate, First Aid and Sports Trainer Level 1 this year. I'm already sick of them. The Grass Roots has easily been the best.

Conversely, I did 8 days of KNVB Youth Certificate and every day was brilliant. The instructors, methodology and course content was light years in front of anything else I've done.

I think First Aid and Sports Trainer should be done by someone involved in a club who is not coaching. There is a lot of responsibility and it hasn't helped as much with coaching as I was hoping it would. My main concern is helping older players warm up and warm down, all with a ball, but without causing injury.

[quote= My main concern is helping older players warm up and warm down, all with a ball, but without causing injury.[/quote]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Warm-Ups-Soccer-Dynamic-Approach/dp/1591640288/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340685148&sr=1-1

gets given out on FFF course

Just attended a FFA Community Skills Acquisition and Mentoring Program 90 minute session put on by state FFA. There was no cost.

It was taken by one of the biggest name coaches, third in the national FFA hierarchy - Norm Boardman. I've always had a soft spot for Norm for failing 442's, in fact football forums across Australia's top troller, in his refresher FFA Youth Licence!=d>

Some of NB's session had been covered in the state SAP trainer's coaching sessions. This is a pilot session being shown around Australia to encourage coaches to do the SAP courses/licences which will be offered later in the year.

It was one of the best sessions I've attended this year through FFA. Unfortunately, we only had about 6 coaches attending. This is appalling and a reflection of an ignorant attitude from too many local coaches.](*,)
There was a lot of work on warm ups through dribbling and juggling, covered in Alfred Galustian's Skill Drills in this Performance section. Then there was some 1v1 shooting attacking and defending exercise. This is where they were too many inactive players, which the state TD also fully endorsed.

One comment I posed to NB is that he had players inactively standing in lines. I suggested that they do stationary ball techniques whilst waiting for active play. He took it on board and said that that had been something he learnt from the session. As a corollary, he said that coaches should see every session as a learning opportunity. Fair play to him. He asked me what my occupation was, then stated that teaching provided great insight into football coaching.

There was some useful 3v3 SSGs in channels coaching. It is early difficult to explain on here, but I'll keep a look out for it in Dirk's Academy Sessions.

Of the courses I've done this year, I'd recommend this session to any other coaches if it is offered near you. One thing that has become very apparent is that now I'm a TD, my club officials send me all sorts of info about imminent FFA courses. When I was operating outside the FFA system, I often missed events because I didn't know they were on.

If you find it difficult to access your local SAP trainer's sessions, then this community SAP and Mentoring session is worthwhile. Then again, we have an excellent SAP trainer down here. They may not be as good elsewhere.

I can see massive changes for the better with Han Berger's tenure. Unfortunately, it will only be appraised on the results of our top 20 or so players. I think it may be very difficult to match Japan, Korea and China in the coming years from what FFA staff coaches say they see in these countries. We probably have the best coaching system in the English as a first language speaking world, now, but it may not be enough to guarantee success.











Edited by Decentric: 3/7/2012 07:18:56 PM

Edited by Decentric: 4/7/2012 12:03:25 AM

Interesting views decentric.

So are you trying to say that regardless of these changes happening, it wont make a difference when challenging with Japan, Korea in the future?

Thanks to the efforts of Bill and ken Mitchell the coaching has improved up here since the departure of you know who.
But today i was talking with some coaches today and one major problem we are having is getting the players to use skills (ie step overs) in a game.
How are you going with that decentric?


Edited by krones3: 3/7/2012 10:40:26 PM

According to FFA staff coaches, who I'm getting to know quite well since I've become TD at a club, because this is such a small state, in Japan players train three times per day. I think I'm correct, or it may be twice a day at the very least.

What they are saying is that they are training a lot more than our players, which is why so many Japanese players are sound technicians. Japan and Korea are pretty rich countries too, with a lot more money to spend on football, without egg ball codes, cricket, etc, soaking up sponsorship dollars.

From reading Soccernomics, China has all the ingredients to become the Asian superpower in football.

The Middle-east shouldn't improve as much relatively. Iran and Iraq may improve with more economic prosperity. Essentially, Arabs don't have the incredible work ethic they do in the cited east Asian countries. I doubt they have the capacity to train as much as the Japanese.


Even though we may have better coaching methodology than Ireland, Canada, Wales, Scotland, South Africa, Caribbean countries, New Zealand, England, and possibly the USA, Japan's may be better. Alf Galustian, world head of Coerver, told Australian coaches they should look to Japan for football expertise.

With the USA, they have their college system, with hundreds of thousands professional type players. It may not be as good as our elite of elite, but they have incredible depth with hundreds of thousands playing at a more professional level than our state leagues. One Aussie player at a US college thinks the coach at that player's college is decidedly better than the NTC coach that player had in one particular state.






Edited by Decentric: 4/7/2012 12:36:12 AM

It depends on the player.

Ask them to try things in practice SSGs, 1v1s are very good for this too.

If a player can body swerve on the left and right side, this is all most A League players use in matches. The body swerve is the same move as when Robbie Slater talks about specific players 'dropping the shoulder'. I can add a video if you are not sure what it is.

Norm Boardman was talking about this tonight - that some technically superb players (Viduka) just don't have sufficient acceleration/pace to go past players. This would also apply to many other Socceroos too.

One Nepalese player who has joined my club through CFP, keeps doing Brazilian rolls with both feet. I'm asking him to add a reverse step over to do in a move called the Ronaldo in Brazilian Soccer Schools, seen in Cristiano Ronaldo's flashy repertoire. If he can do this on both sides, he will really intimidate players. Whilst other players are practising Matthews Cuts with their favourite foot, I'll request him to do them with his left foot, keeping his head up, plus trying the BSS Ronaldos as well.

Another player performs the Cruyff Cut very well in games.

Looking at the club team at Norm Boardman's SAP session they are another level up from our club teams. They've been members of Ken Morton's Soccer School for some years, with a lot of former state/rep/NTC/SAP/Skillaroos players.





Edited by Decentric: 4/7/2012 12:34:45 AM

Edited by Decentric: 4/7/2012 12:39:04 AM

They will do it at practice all day it is in games that they will not use.

Krones3 sometimes the kids don't use their full range of skills due to fear. They are afraid of making a mistake. I see this often and sometimes find the need to tell kids it's a game relax and have fun.

Solutions, plenty of encouragement, plenty of games (futsal too)and plenty more practice.


Sorry I can't offer a silver bullet solution.

Thanks mate i will give it a go
Still can not understand fear in 10 year olds what is it that makes them so afraid to try?
actually makes me sad because the only thing i can think off is fear is taught.

aut viam inveniam aut faciam

Beleive it or not I have had direct experience with kids at 10yo who have General Anxiety. While fear of making mistakes at that age can also come from peers.

Hey guys, I am finally back from South East Asia so things should be back to normal (hopefully lots of updates from me, heh) until I go off to Europe in 4-6 weeks. During the time that I am back, I'll be doing my Senior Certificates and Senior License so I'll give my opinions on how they go. I am also looking at doing a few short courses over in England, but time will tell about those. If I enrol in any I'll naturally post updates.



Thanks Arthur! Hope it comes in handy!

Edited by Decentric: 5/7/2012 05:46:53 PM

Decentric I have never seen you so speechless ^ :d .

I have the following link which I have been told is the AFC 'C' License Prac book.

http://www.footballwidebay.com.au/uploads/Part%205%20-%20Curriculum%20Practices.pdf

Draupnier if this is correct maybe you can add this as an addition to the FFA C license, and I will remove this post if you do.

Cheers

Has anyone here done any of FFA Advanced pathway courses?