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Coach Education
Coach Education Pathways
Find the correct pathway for your own coaching development. The Scottish FA provide a range of coaching pathways to help develop a coach to coach at a selection of levels.
Coach Education Pathways
Click on a pathway below to find out more information- Grassroots Pathway
UEFA PathwayUEFA
Specialist PathwaySpecialist
Napier University PathwayNapier University
Grassroots Pathway
What is the Grassroots Pathway?
The Grassroots pathway includes all the coaching courses required for different coaching roles at the grassroots level.
This pathway includes the Introduction to Coaching course, the Children's Pathway, Youth & Adult Pathway, Goalkeeping Pathway, and the UEFA Grassroots Leader Award.
UEFA Pathway
What is the UEFA Pathway?
The UEFA Pathway includes all the coaching courses required for advanced to elite coaching roles.
This pathway includes the UEFA Adult Pathway, UEFA Youth Pathway, UEFA Children's Pathway, UEFA Goalkeeping Pathway, and UEFA Fitness Pathway.
Specialist Pathway
What is the Specialist Pathway?
The Specialist Pathway includes a range of courses designed for specific specialist roles.
This pathway includes the Talent ID Pathway, Performance Analysis Pathway, Sporting Director Pathway, Futsal Pathway, Coach Educator Pathway, and Specialist E-Learnings.
Napier University
What is the Napier University Pathway?
This degree programme – the first of its kind in Scotland - has been designed in collaboration with the Scottish Football Association to provide an holistic view of coaching within a football setting, using evidence based knowledge and learning to support the UEFA awards embedded into each year of the degree. At all times considering reality-based learning.
Upon successful completion of the programme, you will be a degree qualified coach in the many different facets of football, whilst also graduating with the UEFA C, UEFA B and UEFA Youth B licence qualifications. In your 4th year of study, you will be able to specialise by carrying out a relevant piece of research and where appropriate, start working towards your UEFA A Licence, UEFA Elite Youth A Licence, or UEFA Goalkeeping B, as an integral part of the Work-Based Learning module.