Master in Coaching Online Highlights

Learn from a teaching team made up of specialists in Spanish and European football.

Gain a global perspective of what it means to be a coach, enabling you to manage a professional football project.

Train with a curriculum based on the latest advances in training players, their cognitive development and its influence on the design of the game model.

Learn how to leverage big data as a key technology for sports management, performance analysis, and identifying potential new players. You will learn to use the latest technological tools for big data management, including Tableau, Power BI, R Studio, and Wyscout.

Leadership from a project management perspective: leading new projects, changing management, organisational culture, and identity.

• Organization of a professional club’s sporting structure.
• Leadership in football: players and teams, technical and administrative staff.
• Key skills and values for effective leadership.

Critical success factors and KPIs of successful football clubs. Best practice examples and case studies, based on the Double Pass scientific model.

• Strategy Development: making ambitious yet realistic choices.
• Structure: club organization and youth academy organization.
• Financial and Legal Management. Cost & Revenue in an academy.

How to develop and implement a football philosophy. Relationship between club identity and football philosophy. The importance of the club DNA and its context, and how it affects the youth academy.

• Identification and design of smart objectives in line with the strategies.
• Integrated Player Development plans.
• Coaching styles: finding the most effective models.

Setting up a curriculum: organising football contents and skills per age group for long term development, always consistent with the football philosophy.

• Periodisation and planning.
• Alternative methodological models and potential hybrid systems.
• Individual player development.
• Developing individual profiles and curriculum.

Structural and operational bases in the club organisation to increase player promotion success.

• The complexities of the last step in a young player’s development process.
• First team demands on and off the pitch. Preparing the player for professional football
• Player promotion as the successful end to the development process.

Big Data in Sport Management: analysing and understanding performance of our own team and potential new players. Application of Big Data for scouting and talent ID.

• Organisation, key roles and tasks in a professional club’s sports management department.
• Game theory and decision-making applied to sports management.
• Case study of successful and innovative Spanish Sporting Directors.

Performance analysis in football: our team, opposition, individual players and physical aspects.

• Technological tools for big data management: Tableau, Power BI, RStudio and databases.
• Technological tools for scouting and performance analysis Wyscout.
• Reporting and presenting data and findings.

Study this module online or face to face, you choose.

Get to know Real Madrid during a two-week stay. See how The Factory, Real Madrid’s academy in Valdebebas operates, learn the secrets and get to know how The Factory operates each day at Real Madrid City. You will attend conferences led by the club professionals and have the unique opportunity to watch the Real Madrid youth teams train.

The best examples case in the football industrie.

This master's degree is 100% online. You will be able to take the exams and the TFM virtually.

The Master in Football Coaching and Sports Management - Online is aimed at a wide range of football professionals—from directors to coaches, to scouts and analysts—who wish to develop their careers in youth and senior, professional or semi-professional levels.

• Sports and football managers
• Youth academy directors
• Club coordinators and managers
• Scouting and recruitment professionals
• Football school managers.
• Methodology and performance managers.
• Football coaches and technical staff.

For access to the Accredited Private Master`s Degree in Football Coaching and Sports Direction online it is necessary to fulfill one of the following REQUIREMENTS:

• To be in possession of a University Degree. In the case of being a graduate from a university outside of Spain, it is not necessary to have had the degree officially recognised by the Spanish Education Ministry.
• To have accredited professional experience related to the programme of interest. This guarantees the achievement of the abilities specified in the Profile for prospective students section. Some of the programmes offered at Universidad Europea do not allow access through professional experience. See the full list here.
• Higher Vocational Training Graduates who can accredit professional experience after completion of the internship.

In all cases, the University may limit access to certain degrees if a specific university degree has not been previously completed.