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UEFA Goalkeeping B Diploma
Coach the modern keeper: distribution and building out, crosses and set pieces, the physical and mental game, and young keepers.
£1,650, including hotel and meals for both blocks · application-based · Two three-day blocks plus a learner-support day after each · UEFA minimum 60 hours · needs the UEFA C and the National Goalkeeping Course
Free lesson · Tactics and distribution: the keeper in possession
The UEFA Goalkeeping B: what you are signing up for
The UEFA Goalkeeping B Diploma is the advanced goalkeeping award, for coaches working — or aiming to work — as full-time goalkeeper coaches in the professional or semi-professional game. Its focus is goalkeeper analysis, youth development and psychological coaching.
| The real course | |
|---|---|
| Entry | UEFA C and the National Goalkeeping Course, both completed before you start |
| Format | Two three-day blocks (accommodation and meals provided), a learner support day after each, and club-based tasks in between |
| Hours | UEFA minimum 60: 20 off the pitch, 40 on it, including work experience |
| Cost | Application-based; priced when you apply |
| Assessment | Two 25-minute practices at your club and a 30-minute face-to-face summary interview |
Its outcomes include how young keepers grow, psychology, analysis, the role of the goalkeeper coach, the keeper in and out of possession, how to defend the goal, the area and the space, the male and female game, defending set plays as a team, profiling, and session design.
Source: Coaching certifications reference · 8. Goalkeeping Track
The syllabus: 5 modules, 19 lessons
- 1
Tactics and distribution: the keeper in possession
- The UEFA Goalkeeping B: what you are signing up for free preview
- The keeper as the plus-one in build-up
- The distribution toolkit
- Playing out under pressure
- 2
Crosses and set pieces
Pitch practical Come for the cross: judge the flight, call early, take it at the highest point.
- Where to stand when a cross is coming
- Take, punch or defend
- Coming for the cross: judge, call, take it at the top
- Walls and corners
- 3
Physical preparation of goalkeepers
- Power: the goalkeeper’s currency
- Agility, reaction and hand–eye
- Durability, dive load and the training week
- 4
Psychology and the goalkeeping group
- The mistake ritual
- Concentration and confidence
- Leading the goalkeeping group
- Penalties: research, cues and theatre
- 5
Developing young goalkeepers
- When to specialise, and how to rotate
- Growth, maturation and the height trap
- Educating goalkeeper parents
- Planning a development block and reviewing it