- Level 1
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Level 1: Foundation in Performance Analysis in Football
This course introduces the key skills and knowledge you’ll need and how it’s done in professional football. We’ll end by looking at a real example of successful analysis from a Premier League club.
This course introduces the key skills and knowledge you’ll need on the performance analysis pathway.
Performance analysts are football experts who also know how to use cutting-edge data and video technology. By combining these skills, they find insights to improve team performance. Working closely with coaches and players, analysts look for that extra edge which makes the difference between winning and losing. All the world’s major clubs employ performance analysts: as technology improves, their role is becoming more important than ever.
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This course draws on the expertise of elite performance analysts to give you the insider’s view of an analyst’s work.
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It outlines the skills and experience you need to launch a career in an analysis role
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A comprehensive foundation in the topic, the course leads to the more advanced courses in performance analysis available through our platform
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Throughout the course, interactive exercises give you the chance to practice your new skills, by working through examples based on real analysis from top-flight clubs
£85.00
This course is part of a Level 1 Qualification
This Course Includes:
- Hours of training material
- Expert knowledge and experience
- Developed by football industry experts for you
- Access on multiple devices
- Learn at your own pace
- Certificate of completion
Course Content
- What is Performance Analysis?
- Asking Performance Questions
- Opposition Analysis
Any of the modules can be taken by itself, but you’ll learn the most by taking all three in order.
Each module ends with an assessment: sometimes a multiple-choice quiz and sometimes an interactive exercise. When you’ve passed all three assessments, you’ll earn three CPD points.
- Exactly what performance analysts do
- How analysis supports coaching and training
- How analysts work with data
- What an analyst’s typical week looks like
- What skills a performance analyst needs
- Which software and devices are used in analysis
- How to end a player’s goal drought using data
- How analysts investigate team performance
- The technical, tactical, physical and psychological elements of performance
- What analysts look for in data and video
- The software tools analysts use to study performance
- How to collaborate with sports scientists and sports psychologists
- How to investigate ball progression in midfield
- How to investigate ball progression in midfield
- How to improve a team’s pressing by asking targeted questions
- How analysts use data and video to study opposition teams
- What tools and resources are available at different levels of the game
- Understanding how an opposition team’s playing style matches up with your own team’s
- Identifying opposition strengths and weaknesses
- Presenting opposition analysis to coaches
- The limitations of opposition analysis
- How to analyse an opposition team’s use of space
Who wrote this Course?
The information you’ll learn on this course was provided by a group of performance analysts with experience in the Premier League, the Women’s Super League, the Championship, La Liga and Serie B. You can visit our Experts page to see a selection of the analysts who have contributed to our courses.
Our award-winning content team worked closely with the analyst group to create a fully-interactive course based on their expertise. Our content team are not only football fans: we have years of experience creating digital learning for football professionals.
Who is it for?
The Level 1 Foundation in Performance Analysis is suitable for anyone interested in the discipline of performance analysis. You might be thinking about a career in analysis, curious about what it might involve, or simply interested in what professional analysts do.
This course is not the ideal starting point if you’re completely new to data in football. If you want to find out what types of data are collected in football, why data is useful to clubs, and what professional pathways are available to analysts, these topics are covered in full in the Level 1 Introduction to Analysis in Football course.
The Level 1 Foundation in Performance Analysis prepares you to take level 2 and level 3 courses covering performance analysis topics in depth.
Are you ready to start the performance analysis pathway?
Are you ready to see the future of football?
FAQS
Once you’ve chosen your course, you’ll be taken to a web page where you can get started. You can take the course entirely in your browser. It’s made up of text pages with images, animations, interactive exercises and a final questionnaire. Audio narration will guide you through.
You can complete the course at your own pace. It’s yours for life, so you can revisit it whenever you want.
You can take the course entirely in your browser. You don’t need any other materials, but you might want to take notes on paper or on another device.
Our courses contain a lot of detail and hands-on interaction. This makes them difficult to use effectively on a phone or tablet. We recommend using your laptop or PC, with the largest screen you have access to.
We have done everything we can to make our courses accessible to those with visual, auditory and cognitive challenges. Please get in touch if we can support your learning in any way.
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