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FA Advanced Principles of Talent Identification & Development in Football
For professional clubs: talent and development, projecting potential, and the ethics of the market.
£1,865 · 10 months · formerly Talent ID Level 3 · for full-time scouts and talent-ID staff at professional clubs, with Level 2 and Safeguarding
Free lesson · Talent and development
The real course: FA Advanced Principles of Talent Identification & Development in Football (formerly Talent ID Level 3)
Level 3 — Advanced Principles of Talent Identification & Development in Football — is the professional game's scouting qualification. It is built for people already doing the job: you must be in a full-time scout or talent-ID role, ideally one that drives standards in your department, and you should already hold Level 2 plus the Safeguarding Children course. Places go first to candidates whose club needs them qualified under EPPP, and to professional-club recruitment staff who hold Level 2.
| Level 3 in practice | |
|---|---|
| Cost | £1,865 |
| Length | 10 months |
| Format | Six 2-day taught modules (12 days) with about two months between blocks, plus 5 group days; face-to-face at St George's Park and other venues |
| Assessment | Tasks and assessments between blocks, applied in your own club |
| Leads to | Professional-game recruitment roles; in English academies it is a de facto requirement for scouting, and it feeds Level 4 |
- Examine and evaluate your own decision-making process.
- Review reporting processes so the department reports consistently.
- Apply the FA Four Corner Model to recruitment decisions.
- Explore practical scouting strategies.
Source: Management & administration reference · 12. FA Talent ID Level 3
The syllabus: 3 modules, 12 lessons
- 1
Talent and development
- The real course: FA Advanced Principles of Talent Identification & Development in Football (formerly Talent ID Level 3) free preview
- The Four Corners at professional depth
- Performance, potential and the development phases
- Maturation and the relative age effect
- 2
Projecting potential
- Position by position: what you are grading
- Live, video and the opposition pack
- Data as a screen and a challenge
- The report that drives a decision
- 3
Ethics and the market
- The nine biases that cost clubs players
- Engineering bias out of a department
- Child first: approaches, honesty and inducements
- Confidentiality, data and integrity