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Cost of Coaching Courses


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By Justafan - 8 Oct 2013 8:36 AM

With the requirement being for a Youth C Licence to coach U12 onwards at a NPL club going forward, I was wondering whether the clubs pay the cost of the course ($1,320 in SA according to the FFSA website) or are the coaches paying?

Would be interested to know what the various club policies around Australia are.

Also interesting read on the situation in grassroots football in England, sound very familiar to what is happening in Australia:

http://espnfc.com/columns/story/_/id/1572894/counting-cost-coaching?cc=3436

I would of thought we would have to be making courses less costly to grow the coaching pool and hence the coaching talent, especially at youth level. Germany and Spain are obviously taking this approach according to this article.
By Justafan - 16 Oct 2013 12:47 PM

New Signing wrote:
It was roughly a 60-40 split of people had to pay for their courses as opposed to those who were funded. Most of the npl people there had been funded


Thanks for the feedback.

I agree with increasing the qualifications of coaches no doubt about that but my concern is how many people would want to pay the fee to get a Youth C Licence to coach the U12's, given the time to do the course, work pressures and family commitments. Plus not to mention the additional costs to stay qualified.

I think the FFA/Clubs/State Federations need to make these courses more affordable. It is a bit like playing the game at youth level, we want the best players but we make it so expensive to play compared to other football codes that in the end we do always get the best.