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Level 1 Course Bundle
This bundle includes all the Level 1 courses and they can be completed as standalone courses. On completion you can download your certificates and get your CPD points.
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This Level 1 bundle includes all the courses and they can be completed as standalone courses at your own time. You can return back to the courses at any time. Download your certificate on completion and get your CPD points.
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This course draws on the experience of top-flight football analysts to show you what they do and how they do it
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It introduces all the key analysis roles, and explains what each role involves
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A total beginner’s guide to data in football, the course sets you up to learn professional data analysis through our platform
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Throughout the course, interactive exercises give you the chance to explore further by working through examples based on real analysis from elite clubs
£120.00
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
- Level 1: Introduction to Analysis in Football
- Level 1: Foundation in Performance Analysis in Football
- Level 1: Foundation in Recruitment Analysis in Football
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.
- What clubs use technology for
- Why clubs need analysts to make the most of technology
- Why the pundits sometimes get stats wrong
- What the analysis team at a top-flight club does
- What exactly “data” is
- The meaning of key data analysis words and phrases
- The two main pathways in football analysis: performance and recruitment
- The five main routes for starting a career in football analysis
- Exactly what performance analysts do
- How analysts work with data
- How to end a player’s goal drought using data
- The technical, tactical, physical and psychological elements of performance
- How to collaborate with sports scientists and sports psychologists
- Understanding how an opposition team’s playing style matches up with your own team’s
- Understanding how an opposition team’s playing style matches up with your own team’s
- Presenting opposition analysis to coaches
- Exactly what a recruitment analyst does
- The value recruitment analysis provides to clubs
- What the leading player data providers offer
- Getting started with widely-used data provider Wyscout
- Exactly what a video scout does
- The three key steps of the video scouting process
- Evaluating a goalkeeper based on video footage
Who wrote this Course?
The information you’ll learn in this bundle was provided by a group of performance analysts with experience in the Premier League, Serie A, La Liga, the Women’s Super League, and the Championship.
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.
The courses have been designed and developed by an award winning elearning team.
Who is it for?
This Level 1 Course Bundle includes all the Level 1 courses and they can be completed as standalone courses.
They are a great introduction for anyone curious about what analysts do, and what skills and knowledge a career in the discipline requires.
This bundle includes:
What is Analysis in Football?
How is Data Used in Football?
Pathways into Football Analysis
What is Performance Analysis?
Asking Performance Questions
Opposition Analysis
What is Recruitment Analysis?
The Player Search
Video Scouting
Ready to learn about analysis from the professionals?
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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