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Private Master`s Degree in Football Coaching and Sport Direction Online

Specialise in methods and tools of performance analysis in football. With the Master in Football Coaching, you will gain the skills to be a leader capable of managing complex football projects. You will acquire leadership abilities and improve your ability to hold one-to-one and group dialogues.

Master in Coaching Online Highlights

The Master in Coaching Online offers an opportunity for football coaches and management professionals to acquire the tools and knowledge necessary to develop and implement football projects anywhere around the globe.

Study Big Data as a key tool for shaping the future of football from different perspective: sports management, analysing the performance of the team and the opposition, and identify potential new players.

If you’re looking for flexibility, our online methodology offers you what you need. The online classes are taught live and recorded through the virtual campus. You can access them whenever is most convenient for you or watch them again to review concepts.

Live your Real Madrid experience and enjoy unique face-to-face experiences in Madrid, Portugal, or The Netherlands. You'll get to know the most relevant football clubs and their youth academies, discovering their talent development models. You'll learn their training methodology from the professionals directly on the field.

Online with live classes English , Spanish
Start: 28 oct. 2024 60 ECTS
Title issued by Universidad Europea de Madrid 9 months Private degree Escuela Universitaria Real Madrid Universidad Europea School of Sports Sciences

Why study this master’s in football coaching?

The Executive Master in Football Coaching and Sport Direction is the only programme focused on improving your training as a coach. Learn how to enhance the strengths of your players to optimise your team’s performance.

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.

Big Data as a key tool in football

You will receive a 360-degree education that will enable you to make a difference in the football world. You will have a global view of all key areas in order to increase football players’ performances.

Big Data and Sports Management

  • Organisation, key roles and tasks in a professional club’s sport management department.

  • Game theory and decision-making applied to sport management.

  • Analysing and understanding performance of our own team and potential new players. Application of Big Data for scouting and talent ID.

  • Case study of successful and innovative Spanish sport directors.

Performance analysis through Big Data

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

  • Technological tools for Big Data management, such us: Tableau, Power BI, R Studio or databases.

  • Technological tools for scouting and performance analysis: Wyscout.

  • Reporting and presenting data and findings.

Comillas
ComillasThe Master in Football Coaching & Sport Direction gave me an extraordinary experience in my ongoing journey of personal growth. The modules and assignments challenged me throughout with plenty of enthusiasm, it provided me with invaluable knowledge, and gave me the opportunity to engage with candidates and lectures from all around the world.

Darren Brown

Student of the Master in Football Coaching and Sport Direction

Certified Programmes

Gain new skills and boost your career by studying one of our specialisation and innovation courses once you have completed your master. Choose the area of specialisation that interests you the most, such as: Football Data Analyst, Digital Transformation or Sports Coaching.

Lead the digitisation of the sports sector and learn from the very best at Real Madrid F.C. Enjoy online training, in which you will have the opportunity to attend live masterclass with industry experts.

Estadio Santiago Bernabéu

Study plan

The 100% online Private Master`s Degree in Football Coaching and Sport Direction comprises 10 modules, each with 6 ECTS, aimed at providing you with the skills to develop, implement and lead football projects.

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.

Programme implementation

The Master in Football Coaching and Sports Management was introduced in 2020

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Career opportunities for the Executive Master in Football Coaching and Sport Direction

With this football coaching online master’s, you’ll be able to continue to grow as a professional at the head of high-level sports management projects. Career options include:

  • Professional football coach.
  • Professional football scout.
  • Director of Methodology.
  • Technical director of the youth academy in professional football teams.

Universidad Europea online: leaders in innovation and quality education

Flexible and tailored to your needs
Universidad Europea’s online methodology allows you to adapt your training to your circumstances.

Experiential
Learning based on continuous practice and real cases in simulated environments that will prepare you to face the challenges of the professional world.

Constant communication
With the latest technologies, you will be in direct contact with the university, your teachers and your classmates.

Continuous support
Your lecturers and tutor will answer your questions and accompany you throughout your learning journey.

Admissions

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.

Admissions Process

The admission process to pursue an online undergraduate or postgraduate certificate at Universidad Europea can be carried out throughout the year, although enrolment on any of our programmes is subject to availability. In order to complete the process, follow these simple steps:

How to apply

1

Documentation

You will need to send the specific documentation to your personal advisor

  • Admissions form.
  • Legal document required for accessing the programme.
  • Photocopy of your ID.
  • Curriculum vitae.

2

Admission exam

Once your documentation has been reviewed, your personal advisor will contact you.

  • Competency assessment test.
  • Personal interview.
  • Language assessment test (if applicable).

3

Reserving a place

Formalising the reservation of a place through our different methods of payment

  • Direct debit.
  • Credit card.
  • Online payment.

ADMISSIONS APPLICATION

Candidates shall not be charged, and their place shall not be guaranteed, until the reservation has been formalised. Get in touch with us!

Faculty

David Viejo

Area and programme director

Carlos Drechler

Associate director. Academic Coordinator of Master. Professor of module 5: Player promotion to professional football. Professor of module 10: Final Project.

  • María Ruiz De Oña
    Sports psychologist director, department of psychology and performance: Aspire Qatar.
    Professor of module 1: Management & Leadership.
  • Daniel Parnell
    Associate professor in Sportsusiness at the University of Liverpool.
    Professor of module 2: Club and academy analysis.
  • Patricia González
    Group leader talent development programme - FIFA.
    Professor of module 2: Club and academy analysis.
  • Mads Davidsen
    Group Head of Football at Right to Dream
    Professor of module 2: Club and academy analysis
  • David Pauwels
    Talent Development Programme Manager at FIFA
    Professor of module 2: Club and academy analysis
  • David Tenorio
    Ex-coach at Recreativo Granada C.F.
    Professor of module 3: Football philosophy.
    Professor of module 4: Football curriculum.
  • Dean Santagelo
    Goalkeeper coach at FC Zürich.
    Professor of module 3: Football philosophy.
    Professor of module 4: Professor of module 5: Player promotion to professional football.
  • Aloys Wijnker
    Technical manager elite football at KNVB.
    Professor of module 3: Football philosophy.
    Professor of module 4: Football curriculum.
    Professor of module 5: Player promotion to professional football.
  • João Tralhão
    Football Coach Ambassador Sport Integrity Global Alliance.
    Professor of module 3: Football philosophy.
    Professor of module 4: Football curriculum.
  • Jose Bargues
    Valencia C.F. technical areas coordinator.
    Professor of module 3: Football philosophy.
    Professor of module 4: Football curriculum.
  • Valdas Dambrauskas
    Manager of Greek Super League club OFI.
    Professor of module 3: Football philosophy.
    Professor of module 4: Football curriculum.
  • Ivan Prelec
    Manager of Danish superliga club Vejille.
    Professor of module 3: Football philosophy.
    Professor of module 4: Football curriculum.
  • Hugo Relvas
    Assistant coach of Salgueiros.
    Professor of module 5: Player promotion to profesional football.
  • Josselin Juncker
    First team assistant coach and head of player development - CE Sabadell F.C.
    Professor of module 5. Player promotion to professional football.
  • Rhys Carr
  • Individual Development Coach of Wolves.
    Professor of module 5: Player promotion to profesional football.
  • Justin Cochrane
    Assistant coach of Brentford.
    Professor of module 5: Player promotion to profesional football.
  • Victor Orta
    Director of football - Leeds United.
    Professor of module 6: Big Data and Sports Management.
  • Ivan Kepcija
    Head of recruitment at Hibernian Football Club.
    Professor of module 6: Big Data and Sports Management.
  • Chris Docherty
    Assistant to 1st team head coach, currently Boro Primorac, former assistant coach to Arsene Wenger at Arsenal F.C.
    Professor of module 6: Big Data and Sports Management.
  • Neil Whitbread
    Soccer Investigations, Intelligence and Risk Specialist for Silverseal.
    Professor of module 6: Big Data and Sports Management.
  • Jose Fontes
    Coach of AS Roma.
    Professor of module 6: Big Data and Sports Management.
  • Anselmo Ruiz
    Data analyst and consultant.
    Professor of module 7: Performance Analysis through Big Data.
  • Miguel Ferreira
    Data analyst at Sporting Club de Portugal.
    Professor of module 7. Performance Analysis through Big Data.
  • Raúl Peláez
    Data analyst FIFA Technology & Innovation Consultant.
  • Mathieu Lacome
    Head of Performance & Analytics Officer Parma Calcio.
  • Marco Couto
    Sporting Director of Moreirense F.C.
  • Loic Fave
    Ex assistant Coach of Basel Fc and FC St Pauli.
    Professor of module 7: Performance Analysis through Big Data.

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 1: Management & Leadership.

María Ruiz De Oña

Sports psychologist director, department of psychology and performance: Aspire Qatar.

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 2: Club and academy analysis

Patricia Gonzalez

Group leader talent development programme – FIFA.

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 2: Club and academy analysis

Mads Davidsen

Group Head of Football at Right to Dream

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 2: Club and academy analysis

David Pauwels

Talent Development Programme Manager at FIFA

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 2: Club and academy analysis.

Daniel Parnell

Associate professor in SpSportsusiness at the University of Liverpool.

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 3: Football philosophy. Professor of module 4: Football curriculum. Professor of module 5: Player promotion to profesional football.

Dean Santangelo

Goalkeeper coach at FC Zürich

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 3: Football philosophy. Professor of module 4: Football curriculum.

David Tenorio

Ex-coach at Recreativo Granada C.F.

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 3: Football philosophy. Professor of module 4: Football curriculum.

João Tralhão

Football Coach Ambassador Sport Integrity Global Alliance

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 3: Football philosophy. Professor of module 4: Football curriculum.

Jose Bargues

Valencia CF technical areas coordinator

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 3: Football philosophy. Professor of module 4: Football curriculum.

Valdas Dambrauskas

Manager of Greek Super League club OFI.

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 3: Football philosophy. Professor of module 4: Football curriculum.

Ivan Prelec

Manager of Danish superliga club Vejile

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 3: Football philosophy. Professor of module 4: Football curriculum. Professor of module 5: Player promotion to profesional football.

Aloys Wijnker

Technical manager elite football al KNVB.

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 5. Player promotion to professional football.

Josselin Juncker

First team assistant coach and head of player development - CE Sabadell F.C.

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 5: Player promotion to profesional football.

Justin Cochrane

Assistant coach of Brentford

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 5: Player promotion to profesional football.

Hugo Relvas

Assistant coach of Salgueiros

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 5: Player promotion to profesional football.

Rhys Carr

Individual Development Coach of Wolves

Comillas
ComillasAcademic Coordinator of Master. Professor of module 5: Player promotion to professional football. Professor of module 10: Final Project.

Carlos Drechsler

Associate director.

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 6: Big Data and Sports Management

Ivan Kepijca

Head of recruitment at Hibernian Football Club.

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 6: Big Data and Sports Management

Chris Docherty

Assistant to 1st team head coach, currently Boro Primorac, former assistant coach to Arsene Wenger at Arsenal F.C.

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 6: Big Data and Sports Management

Neil Whitbread

Soccer Investigations, Intelligence and Risk Specialist for Silverseal

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 6: Big Data and Sports Management

Jose Fontes

Coach of AS Roma

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 6: Big Data and Sports Management.

Victor Orta

Director of football - Leeds United.

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 7: Performance Analysis through Big Data.

Anselmo Ruiz de Alarcón

Data analyst and consultant.

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 7: Performance Analysis through Big Data.

Raúl Peláez

Data analyst FIFA Technology & Innovation Consultant.

Comillas
ComillasProfessor of module 7: Performance Analysis throught Big Data

Miguel Ferreira

Data Analyst at Sporting Club de Portugal

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In 2020, the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences was certified after the successful implementation of the System of Internal Guarantee of Quality under the SISCAL model, and was also awarded with institutional accreditation.

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