There are many online courses available that focus on football (also known as soccer). These courses can be a great way to learn about different aspects of the sport, including tactics, techniques, training methods, and strategies. Some of the topics that may be covered in a football course include:
- The rules and principles of football
- Team tactics and strategies
- Techniques for passing, shooting, tackling, and other fundamental skills
- Training Methods and Conditioning for football players
- Nutrition and injury prevention for football players
- Football coaching techniques and Strategies
- The psychological aspects of football, including motivation, confidence, and team dynamics
- The History and Culture of Football
Football courses may be suitable for individuals who are interested in pursuing a career in football, or for coaches and players who want to improve their skills and knowledge. Before enrolling in a football course, it’s a good idea to research the course content and instructor to make sure that it aligns with your goals and interests. You may also want to consider whether the course is accredited by a professional organization, such as the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). Completing an accredited course may help you meet the requirements for certification or licensure in your region.
1. English Football: a Social History- University of Leicester
This course will explore the history and culture of football, with a focus on the World Cup and on Leicester City Football Club. We’ll explore the origins of football, from early clubs to professional leagues and European competition; the role of media and formation of the Premier League; the World Cup from its origins to Russia 2018; and how LCFC became unlikely Premier League Champions.
Course Highlights:
- A history of football from early leagues and formats, through to the present day.
- The influence of the media, and European football, on the English game.
- The social impact of football: on fans and communities, through disaster and euphoria.
- A History of the World Cup, from Origins to Russia 2018
- A case study of one Premier League club, looking in detail at their folk history and modern success.
- A detailed look at Leicester City Football Club’s remarkable ‘great escape’ and title-winning season 2015-16.
- An examination of the present state of football, and how it might change in the future.
Course Duration: 4 weeks (3 hours/week)
2. Introduction to Football (Soccer) Tactics
It is one thing to admire and enjoy a beautiful piece of art, but it is another thing altogether to understand what the artist did to make it so beautiful. This course wants to develop your tactical literacy by introducing you to the building blocks of tactical analysis. This course isn’t just for coaches. It’s also for fans that want to be able to better understand (and even criticize) tactical discussions from pundits on TV, and watch matches with a more sophisticated lens. It can even help you as a player, allowing you to identify weaknesses in the opposing team and highlight them for your teammates.
Course Highlights:
- Identify common team playstyles
- Understand the inherent advantages and disadvantages of certain formations
- Understand common tactical roles that players fulfil
- Effectively critique team performances from a tactical standpoint
Course Duration: 3 hours
3. How to Analyze Football (Soccer) – Basics
In this course, you will discover the things you should absolutely know and do before watching, playing or coaching your very next game. By the end of this course, you will be able to analyze football games correctly. You will understand football deeply in order to improve your performance. Shortly talking, this course will change the filter through which you see Football (Soccer), and give you some basics and resources to get started in football analysis.
Course Highlights:
- Understand why you need to analyze football
- Get a better understanding of football tactics
- Gain knowledge of football analysis basics
- Analyze football like an analyst
- Discover the resources that will help you in your journey of analyzing football
Course Duration: 2.5 hours
4. The Business of Football– The Open University
During this interactive course, you investigate three main themes. First is the nature of the football business. You’ll look at clubs, particularly those beyond the Premier League, exploring how their business model might differ from other industries. You draw on academic perspectives and interviews with those working in football at both a traditional club, Chesterfield, and a newer one, MK Dons, to consider different income streams and clubs’ internal and external decision-making environments.
Course Highlights:
- begin to understand the business of football and the internal and external business environment of football clubs
- identify factors most likely to motivate people to succeed in their work in different parts of the football business including leaders’ and managers’ influence on the working environment
- describe what makes teams more likely to succeed and how individuals can develop into more effective teams
- reflect on the meaning of globalisation and how this relates to the business of football
- identify how dimensions of power relate to football.
Course Duration: 15 hours
5. Football: More Than a Game
Explore the world of football (soccer), the money, the rivalries, the trends, the past, the present, the men’s game, the women’s game and the real issues. Whether you love it, hate it or try to ignore it – join us as we go behind the scenes to examine why football is more than just a game. From street soccer to multi-million dollar transfers, from the men’s game to the women’s, from the global to the local, from the beaches of Brazil to the fight against poverty this online course looks beyond the pitch, to explore football’s role in society and possibly a community near you.
Course Highlights:
- Introduction to early history, origins and Myths about football
- The rise of global football, FIFA and the Big 5 Football Leagues
- Great football clubs, nations, rivalries and matches that changed the world
- Introduction to football data, trends and what it tells us
- Who are the world champions and what makes them champions?
- The rise, popularity and myths about women’s football
- Tackling inequality, homelessness and health through football
- Introduction to football governance, ownership and Power
Course Duration: 27 hours
6. How to Work The Individual Technique in Soccer?
Have you ever thought, apart from having a good strategy and a good team structure, about the benefits that you can add with good technique players? With this course, you will be able to understand the advantages of individual technique development work and how it can impact the quality of your soccer team. It will be explained the keys to helping your players to improve their technique and make the right decisions.
Course Highlights:
Course Duration: 45 minutes
7. A Guide to Diversifying and Transforming Football Leadership
This course consists of 4 modules or ‘weeks’. In each module, a different theme will be addressed in short expert videos. Furthermore, each week will have supplementary reading material and a brief quiz or discussion topic to apply the knowledge gained from the videos and readings. Participants are invited to relate the gained knowledge to their own experiences, personal development or ambitions to create social change within the football world. Participants are expected to watch the videos before doing the small exercises. Ultimately, the course looks to the future of football leadership and asks what needs to be done to transform the football world from the inside out.
Course Highlights:
Course Duration: 4 weeks
8. The Essential Guide To Developing Technical Soccer Players
The Essential Guide To Developing Technical Soccer Players has been developed over 15 years working with youth players ranging from 4-18 years old. The course will provide a platform of foundation techniques that will help develop any young soccer player. The course does this using numerous learning platforms including videos, lectures and individual tasks.
Course Highlights:
- Teach players individual moves that help them in 1v1 attacking situations.
- Teach players how to use break-pressure individual moves in 1v1 situations.
- Teach players juggling techniques to increase ball control and ball mastery.
- Teach players how to track results and improve performance on their own.
- Teach players why training on their own can help improve performance.
Course Duration: 27 mins
9. Football Manager: become a Master Manager
The course contains over 4 hours of video material, divided into 36 short videos. You can skip anything you don’t want to watch. Or re-watch videos. There are a few quizzes you can take (never mandatory) to sharpen/test your knowledge after watching a video. And, last but not least, you’ll get 5 very valuable and unique guides (downloadable in PDF) about staff, player personalities, player traits, tactics, and match shouts!
Course Highlights:
- Buying, installing and setting up the game. Saving money and having the best look & feel!
- The best ways to analyze your team and create tactics.
- Making the best contract and transfer decisions.
- Everything else you need to know to become a Master Manager (in FM22, FM21, FM20, and earlier versions)!
Course Duration: 4 hours
10. Learn Beginner Python using Football/Soccer-Only Projects
This course is based on a very successful learning strategy that many experienced programmers encourage, which is to find a project that you enjoy doing, and then learn the concepts you need to complete that project. Then do another project and, learn what you need, and build your knowledge, and so on.
Course Highlights:
- Get introduced to all fundamental Python concepts in a practical way
- Master the basics of Python by doing real-life football (soccer) related projects
- See Python concepts at work through relatable sports-focused examples
- Acquire the pre-requisite Python skills to move on to Machine Learning, Data Science, Sports analysis etc.
- Learn to program through engaging subject matter and work through scenarios that you can picture in real life – while having fun
Course Duration: 3.5 hours
11. How to Create an Effective Football (Soccer) Analysis Video
Nowadays, video analysis became a must in most clubs and academies. Even at lower divisions! But, while big and medium clubs and academies have an analysis department or at least one analyst, many coaches in other clubs aren’t supported by analysts and most often they are asked or even by themselves, they want to create video analysis. In this course, you’ll learn how to convey the core of your knowledge and intentions to your audience (either players or coaching staff) in an effective video format. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to create effective football (soccer) analysis videos.
Course Highlights:
- How to create an effective football analysis video
- How to convey the core of your knowledge and intentions to your audience (either players or coaching staff)
- The 3 pillars of every effective football analysis video
- How to grab your audience’s attention
Course Duration: 1.5 hours
12. Train 2 Dominate: The Ultimate Soccer Training Routine
This program will improve all of your skills, increase your speed, boost your soccer IQ, transform your confidence, or turn you into the type of player who dominates games. Regardless of your age, skill level, or experience if you want to become a better player this program is guaranteed to take your game to the next level. This proven formula has helped 10,000s of players in different countries around the world. Now it’s going to help you.
Course Highlights:
- The quickest way to reach top form in soccer, become a standout player and dominate when you play.
- Learn to beat opponents with the most effective soccer moves.
- Understand how to defend properly and make more tackles.
- Develop mental toughness and learn to control your emotions.
- Stand out when you play to impress coaches and scouts.
- Learn how to get trials with semi-pro and professional teams.
Course Duration: 27 hours
13. Soccer Training from Home – Learn to Master the Ball
To become better on the ball you have to take more touches on it. This training programme will give players the opportunity to increase their touches on the ball with three detailed training sessions each week, for four weeks. The very best players are consistent on the ball with high levels of technical ability. Our training programme will help you take the next step in developing your game, improving your touch, control, ball mastery, skills, balance and coordination. The perfect individual training programme to take the next step in the game.
Course Highlights:
- Soccer players will learn to master the ball, all while training alone, whether at home or at the local pitches. Within this course we provide three training sessions a week for a month, specialising in helping players improve their technical ability on the ball. Our programme is designed to improve players’ confidence on the ball, especially with both feet and our course will help you take more touches on the ball while following specialised training sessions to take your game to the next level.
- Developing soccer techniques and ball mastery.
- Ball mastery and development of skills with both feet.
Course Duration: 2.5 hours
14. How to Start a Career in the Football (Soccer) Business: Sport Operations and Management
This online course is targeted at both genders and the opportunities described within are available for males and females. However, there is a specific module where additional opportunities for women and girls can be found. This course intends to break down all of the difficulties mentioned previously into practical steps you can take immediately and start to focus your career in the right direction. This is a rare opportunity to get your football management career started (or back on track), connect and access the best opportunities in the football industry, and get insights amongst other things into industry-recognised institutions providing educational degrees in football and sports management.
Course Highlights:
- During the course, you will learn how to locate the right networking environments within the football industry and how to seize the opportunities when you are faced with them.
- The course will discuss the events, organisations and courses which help to increase the diversity and impact of women in football around the world.
- This course will show you how you can be free to work from anywhere you wish and take up multiple jobs at the same time.
- This course will delve into two courses provided by the best universities in the world, Harvard and MIT.
Course Duration: 4.5 hours
