UEFA B Fitness Diploma

The UEFA B Fitness Diploma is England Football Learning’s new qualification for fitness coaches — the staff who plan, deliver and monitor the physical side of a club’s football. It is for coaches working, or aiming to work, in high-performance environments across men’s and women’s professional football. In 2026 it runs as a pilot: a small cohort takes the course and helps test and refine it before the full national launch in the 2026/27 season.

This course follows the same four modules and teaches them in the order the job runs. You start with what a match asks of a body, because every training decision answers that question. Next comes the process that delivers and checks the work: testing, load monitoring and the plan for the week and the season. Game speed has a module of its own, because it decides matches and, trained well, protects hamstrings and knees. The last module is the whole player — fuel, fluids, sleep, the road back from injury, and the warning signs you must never manage alone.

In the game, each module closes with a check you pass at 70%. The final is a competency assessment in four areas — the demands of the game, training processes and monitoring, game speed, and health and wellbeing — and you must reach 70% in every one of them on its own: a strong area cannot carry a weak one. You have two reassessments.