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UEFA Goalkeeping A Diploma
Head of goalkeeping in the professional game: analysis and KPIs, profiling and recruiting keepers, the season programme and the sweeper-keeper.
£4,150 in the game (the real course costs £2,150) · application-based · Four two-day blocks plus four support visits at your club · UEFA minimum 120 hours
Free lesson · Goalkeeper analysis and KPIs
The UEFA Goalkeeping A: what you are signing up for
The UEFA Goalkeeping A Diploma is the elite goalkeeping award, for coaches working — or aiming to work — with goalkeepers at the highest levels of the professional game. It builds on the Goalkeeping B; historically candidates in England also needed the outfield UEFA B and to be working with professional keepers.
| The real course | |
|---|---|
| Format | Four two-day blocks of group learning, plus four club-site support visits in much smaller groups at your own club |
| Hours | UEFA minimum 120: 36 off the pitch, 84 on it, including work experience |
| Cost | Application-based; priced when you apply |
| Assessment | Practical activities, club-site assessments and a personal coaching portfolio |
| Validity | Three years, renewed through CPD |
Its outcomes: your role and profile as a goalkeeper coach; advanced technical sessions alongside the technical staff; the keeper’s role in attack, defence and transition through announced, unannounced and live practices; fitness and testing; recruitment and scouting; individual analysis and profiling; technology in training and match preparation; mental preparation and stress management; and dealing with the media.
Source: Coaching certifications reference · 9. Goalkeeping Track
The syllabus: 4 modules, 16 lessons
- 1
Goalkeeper analysis and KPIs
- The UEFA Goalkeeping A: what you are signing up for free preview
- Every save logged, every goal coded
- xGOT and the keeper’s numbers
- Review and opposition analysis
- 2
Profiling and recruiting goalkeepers
- What your game model asks of the keeper
- Building and using a goalkeeper profile
- Recruitment traps: height, birthdays and timelines
- The goalkeeping union: No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3
- 3
The season programme
- Planning the goalkeeping season
- Power, durability and dive load at the top level
- The goalkeeper coach and the head coach
- Leading the department: mentoring, innovation, pressure
- 4
The sweeper-keeper
Pitch practical Sweep behind the line: leave your goal early and win the ball before the striker.
- Depth: a live variable
- Outside the box: play, clear or retreat
- Communication and the 1v1 behind the line
- Sweeping behind the line: leave early, win it first