Course summary
Help sportspeople achieve their full potential and improve athletic performance by acquiring leadership and communication skills. This degree is shaped by an established model of coaching adopted by the Football Association and other leading national and international governing bodies. As part of your course, you’ll:
- Develop the skills and knowledge to become a confident sports coach
- Enhance your key coaching skills by understanding your participants and helping them to achieve their potential within their sport
- Learn how to plan, deliver and review both short and long-term training programmes
- Analyse sporting performance and develop your coaching techniques using specialist coaching equipment and software
- Apply ideas from the course during organised placements.
- 93.8% of BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching graduates in work or further study 15 months after graduation*
- Invaluable placement opportunities
- Experienced sport coaching teaching staff
- Gain experience with professional clubs such as Leeds Rhinos and Leeds United, or with local authority and private fitness centres
- Top up your learning with professionally recognised National Governing Body UK Coaching Certificates
- Study in our new £45m state-of-the-art Carnegie School of Sport building
Modules
Year 1 Core Modules:
- Participant-Centred Curriculum
- Research & Personal Development
- Practical Coaching Pedagogy
- Coaching Contexts
- Performance & Talent Development
- Youth Sport & Physical Education
- Community Sport & Physical Activity
- Research Methods for Sports Coaching
- Professional Development in Context
- Understanding Sport
- Coaching Pedagogy in Practice
- Designing Sport Curriculum
- Final Year Project
- Model-Based Coaching
- Professional Practice
How to apply
You can no longer submit a new application for courses starting in 2023.
If you already have a 2023 application and are in Clearing, you can add this course as a Clearing choice – contact the university or college first to check they have places.
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
- Course code:
- CX6D
- Institution code:
- L27
- Campus name:
- Headingley Campus
- Campus code:
- H
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 112 points
GCSE/National 4/National 5
Additional entry requirements
Criminal records declaration (DBS/Disclosure Scotland)
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
England | £9250 | Year 1 |
Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Provider information
Leeds Beckett University
City Campus
Leeds
LS1 3HE