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Professional Football Scouts Association · free preview

Performance Analysis Level 2

Opposition analysis, xG and event data, live and half-time analysis, and analysis for recruitment.

£149.99 · online, self-paced, with practical tasks

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Free lesson · Opposition analysis

The real courses: Performance and Opposition Analysis Level 2

This badge mirrors the two intermediate courses run by the Professional Football Scouts Association: Level 2 Performance Analysis, which takes an analyst through the full post-match and pre-match cycle, and Level 2 Opposition Analysis, which covers the opposition workflow to professional standard.

Level 2 (both courses)
EntryLevel 1 is expected first; a free Level 1 counterpart comes with the purchase.
Cost and format£149.99, online and self-paced, with practical tasks.
Performance Analysis contentAnalysis models (ABC, deterministic, sequential), video coding, passing metrics, graphics, heat maps and shot maps, post-match reporting, player and group presentations, feedback, backroom-staff relationships, troubleshooting presentations, and checking whether your reporting works.
Opposition Analysis contentFormations and systems, phases of play, set plays, individual threats, the match-day workflow, professional reports and presentations.
AssessmentCourse assessments across the modules, then a certificate. No expiry.
What it qualifies you forAcademy and first-team performance and opposition analyst work.

Level 3 follows, built around how analysis works with recruitment, medical, psychology and sports science in an elite club.

Source: Specialist & support roles reference · PFSA Level 2 Performance Analysis

The syllabus: 4 modules, 16 lessons

  1. 1

    Opposition analysis

    • The real courses: Performance and Opposition Analysis Level 2 free preview
    • Reading a team’s shape, phase by phase
    • Pressing and build-up: how they win it and how they progress
    • The opposition report and the honesty rules
  2. 2

    xG and event data

    • Expected goals: what it measures and what it cannot
    • Inside the model: how xG is built
    • The statistics a manager must not be fooled by
    • Charts that tell the truth
  3. 3

    Live and half-time analysis

    Pitch practical Brief the team before kick-off from the opposition report.

    • Match-day analysis: the live set-up
    • The half-time package: three messages, no more
    • From the report to the players
    • Before kick-off: set the match up from the report
  4. 4

    Analysis for recruitment

    • The recruitment funnel
    • Benchmarks, percentiles and age curves
    • Will his numbers travel? League and team context
    • The classic recruitment errors