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FA National Talent Identification & Scouting in Football
Assess a player with the four corners, write a report a head of recruitment can use, and keep bias out of it.
£220 · two days · formerly Talent ID Level 2
Free lesson · Assessing with the four corners
The Level 2 course
FA National Talent Identification & Scouting in Football (formerly Talent ID Level 2) builds on the introductory course and introduces the working principles of scouting: match reporting, building and developing relationships, and analysing performance against potential, plus more sophisticated scouting strategies and managing the talent-identification environment at your club.
| Level 2 in fact | |
|---|---|
| Who it is for | Scouts working in, or hoping to work in, the professional game |
| Entry | Ideally Level 1 completed; places first come, first served |
| Format | Two days face to face (an older format ran three days) |
| Cost | £220 |
| Assessment | Taking part in the course and completing its tasks |
| What it opens | The gateway to Levels 3–5; Level 2 plus the Safeguarding Children course is required before Level 3 |
The typical practical tasks show what the course expects: observe one half focusing on a named midfielder through the five game moments, produce a one-page report, and peer-review another scout’s report for the quality of its evidence and for bias.
Source: Management & administration reference · 11. FA Talent ID Level 2
The syllabus: 3 modules, 12 lessons
- 1
Assessing with the four corners
- The Level 2 course free preview
- Four corners, age-appropriate expectations
- A structured live observation
- Performance against potential, live and on video
- 2
Writing a scouting report
- What makes a report worth reading
- The one-page player report
- From notebook to recommendation
- Senior, opposition and tournament reports
- 3
Bias and fair judgement
- Relative age and maturation
- Biases of judgement
- Biases about the picture of a player
- Engineering bias out of a department