Football Courses

MICRO AWARD IN FOOTBALL BUSINESS

Learn to manage football enterprises: budgeting, revenue streams, sponsorship deals, ticket sales and player contracts, plus the industry's structure, stakeholders and strategic environment.

• OpenLearning
• 20 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Football Coaching: Developing players’ abilities to attack and defend in 1v1 situations

If you are a football coach who wants to help your players develop their 1v1 skills, then this course is what you need!

• OpenLearning
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The business of football

7 ratings

This free course, The business of football, was produced by The Open University working in partnership with The English Football League Trust. If you are fascinated by men's and women's football ...

• OpenLearn
• 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Football: More than a Game

41 ratings at Coursera

Football is more than a game: examine its history and myths, global spectacle, club rivalries, World Cups, role in development and diplomacy, finances and governance.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Erasmus University Rotterdam;  Fare Network

A Guide to Diversifying and Transforming Football Leadership

Examine why women and ethnic minorities are missing from football boardrooms: governing structures, discriminatory hurdles, leadership pathways, and measures to transform football organizations.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Building Champions: Applied Sport Training for Football

Design football training programs: performance profiling and testing, strength and power work, conditioning drills, and monitoring systems that turn tracking data into load and injury decisions.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Fueling Champions: Applied Sport Nutrition for Football

Apply evidence-based sport nutrition in elite football: fuel training and match-day, plan hydration, recovery and supplements, and individualise for youth, female and injured players.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Applied Football Analytics - Looking at real-world cases

Follow elite analysts' workflows: build scouting databases and ranking systems, apply xG, xT, Expected Points and Monte Carlo models, plan squads, and present football data in media.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Future of data and technology in football

Explore how skeleton tracking, live data pipelines, LLM-generated scouting reports, and AlphaZero-inspired reinforcement learning are reshaping football performance analysis, recruitment, and in-match tactical decisions.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Harnessing AI for Injury Prevention and Recovery in Football

Learn how AI turns playing surfaces, travel fatigue, sleep and wellness data into injury prevention, rehabilitation protocols and long-term health management for elite footballers.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

How Did We Get Here?The Development of Analytics in Football

Football's shift from intuition to data: trace Moneyball, Charles Reep's charts, Lobanovskyi's cybernetics, video and event data, and the origins of expected goals.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

How to Develop as a Leader in Football

Develop as an authentic leader in football: clarify purpose and values, use the "You-Me-Agree" feedback method, build resilience and emotional intelligence, and manage trust, performance and conflict.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Leadership and Talent Development in Football

Trace leadership styles in football and apply 360-degree feedback, the You-Me-Agree framework, and VMOST planning to talent pathways, succession planning, and a Development Action Plan.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Devoxx

Video Analytics for Football Games

5 ratings

Explore real-time video analytics for football games using Apache Beam, machine learning, and cloud technologies to detect events, track players and ball, and perform game analytics.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Become a Professional Football (Soccer) Coach

752 ratings at Udemy

The Complete Guide on how to become a Professional Football (Soccer) Coach

• Udemy
• 4 hours 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course