Continuous Professional Development (CPD)

On completion of a Scottish FA/UEFA Licence Coach Education course, you will be automatically enrolled on the CPD programme.

To maintain the validity of your Scottish FA/UEFA Licence qualification, you will have to complete a minimum of 15 hours of accredited and approved CPD every three years.

Should you fail to complete the required hours of CPD, your coaching licence will no longer be valid. You may be eligible to complete a re-validation for your UEFA Licence

Fees for a re-validation apply. To find out more please visit The Coach Education Support Portal

Conversely, on completion of the above noted CPD requirements, your Scottish FA/UEFA Licence will be valid for a further three years.

If you begin another Scottish FA/UEFA Licence course within this three year period, however, this is also attributed as appropriate CPD. For example, if you completed the Scottish FA/UEFA B Licence in 2020, but then begin the Scottish FA/UEFA A Licence before the end of 2023, your participation on the A Licence course will be credited as CPD for the B Licence.

Not necessarily. Generally speaking, you only need to complete 15 hours of CPD every 3 years, regardless of how many Licences you hold. That said, we hope to specialise our CPD programme further in years to come, whereby certain CPD events will only be permissible for accreditation towards certain licences. For now, any 15 hours of accredited CPD will cover all your Scottish FA/UEFA licence requirements.

Football is continually evolving so by regularly updating qualifications and through attending CPD courses, you continue to learn and develop, in order to provide the best possible experience to your players. CPD keeps you up to date with current practice and trends. It also allows you, as a coach, to be reflective and strive to improve your skill set.

Please note, too, that clubs/potential employers are likely to ask for evidence of a valid Scottish FA/UEFA licence, so it is therefore in your own interests to maintain the validity of our licence award.

Yes, you are welcome to attend as many events, and accrue as many hours as you wish during the period. However, no hours can be carried forward to the next three-year period.

Any type of learning can be considered as a contribution towards your hours for CPD including attending seminars, attending courses, visiting clubs, starting another Scottish FA/ UEFA Licence coaching course. It is worth checking with us (by raising a support ticket on The Coach Education Support Portal) before embarking on external learning that what you plan to do does fall within the remit of CPD; we don’t want you to waste time doing something only to find out afterwards that it doesn’t count towards CPD. As a general rule of thumb, any external learning must be deemed at least of the same level of learning/professionalism and allow you to develop the competencies required to complete the Scottish FA/UEFA licence in the first instance.

For Scottish FA sessions, your hours will automatically be added to your record on your Scottish FA Live account. For other organised events we would require a certificate or proof of attendance, programme of the event attended and a report on what was observed and learned. Please contact The Coach Education Support Portal to discuss your specific request. Please note that we will only award a maximum of five hours for each individual event attended/ report submitted that has been undertaken out with the auspices of the Scottish FA and a maximum of one report per annum can be submitted.

You can apply when your card expires, or is about to expire, if you need one. You will also be able to print off your own record by logging into your account on MyComet.

For further queries should you require a new coaching card, please contact The Coach Education Support Portal.

All Scottish FA/ UEFA Coach Education awards carry a validity period of three full calendar years, until no later than 31 December ,three years after completion (e.g. a course completed on 1 February 2020 would be valid until 31 December 2023; similarly a course completed date on 1 December 2020 would be valid until 31 December 2023).

You will be able to view your full record by logging into your account on MyComet.