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Youth coaches, academy staff and anyone working with developing players, from grassroots up to professional academies. The frameworks apply across age groups, from the foundation phase to the oldest youth teams.
FCI is mainly about the mental and personal side of coaching: who the player is, why he does what he does, and how you reach him.
Your license taught you to plan a session. FCI teaches you to guide the players and the team behind it: reading a player, understanding why he behaves the way he does, guiding his development and leading a group.
It is not a tactics course and not a session library. Most coaches take FCI alongside their licence pathway, not instead of it.
FCI was founded by youth coaches with experience in professional academies. Everything in the courses comes from daily work with players and is grounded in research on player development and sport psychology.
Read more on our About & Mission page.
Level 1, Foundations of Player Development: learning to see a player. Structured observation, interpreting behaviour, and building a hypothesis instead of a verdict.
Level 2, Applied Player Guidance: guiding one player. The development plan, the conversation, the inner game, the training week and matchday.
Level 3, Leading the Group: leading a squad. How a team works, culture and standards, leading on matchday, and holding a group through a season.
Because the three levels are designed as one line of thinking. What you learn in one level is the tool you use in the next.
Level 1 teaches you to look at a player without jumping to conclusions. Level 2 takes that way of looking and turns it into action for one player: a plan, a conversation and a training week built around him. Level 3 then applies the same principles to a whole group, where every player brings his own story and the dynamics between them matter just as much.
Taken separately, each level makes you a better coach. Taken together, they give you a complete way of working that you can use with every player and every team you coach.
The full pathway is also the best value: €149,95 instead of €250 for the three levels separately. So if you are planning to take all three levels, choose the pathway from the start.
You can buy each level on its own, so it is possible to start elsewhere. We do strongly recommend working through the levels in order.
Level 2 and Level 3 build on the way of observing that you learn in Level 1. Coaches who skip it often find that the later levels land less well, because the foundation they rely on is missing.
Each lesson is a short video with clear visuals and examples from real coaching situations. Alongside the lessons you get practical assignments that you carry out with your own players, so the material ends up on the pitch and not just in your notes.
That is up to you. There is no timetable and no deadlines. Lessons are short enough to watch around a training week, so you can finish a level in a few weeks or spread the full pathway across a season.
The courses are fully self-paced, without live sessions. We are working on a coach development programme with one-to-one guidance. It is not available yet, and we will announce it as soon as it is.
All courses are in English.
Choose a level or the full pathway on the courses page and add it to your cart. At checkout you fill in your details and pay. Your account is created automatically and you can start straight away.
No. There is no separate sign-up. Your account is created during checkout, using the details you enter there. Already bought a course before? Then simply log in with that account.
Payments are handled securely by Stripe. You can pay by card, and any other payment methods available in your country are shown at checkout.
No. The price you see is the total price you pay. Nothing is added at checkout.
Yes. Bought separately, the three levels cost €250 (€50, €100 and €100). The full FCI Pathway costs €149,95, which saves you €100. And because the levels build on each other, it is also the route that gets you the most out of the material.
Please note that the pathway price only applies when you buy all three levels together in one purchase.
Not by paying the difference. If you have already bought Level 1 separately, you cannot add the other levels by topping up to the pathway price, because that price is only available for the complete pathway bought in one go.
You do get a discount on the following levels. So continuing after Level 1 is still cheaper than the regular price per level.
The courses are digital content that you can access immediately after payment. At checkout you therefore agree that access starts straight away and that you waive the 14-day withdrawal right. Once access has started, a purchase is final.
Not sure whether a course is right for you? Ask us before you buy, we are happy to help.
Twelve months from the date of purchase, for each course or for the full pathway. That is plenty of time to complete all three levels at your own pace.
Yes. The courses work in any modern browser on a computer, tablet or phone. You do not need to install anything.
No. FCI is coach development, not a qualification. It is not a licence or badge issued by UEFA, FIFA, the KNVB, US Soccer or any other governing body.
A licence is your qualification. FCI is what you do to keep getting better at the job.
Yes. You receive an FCI certificate of completion for each level you finish, once you have worked through its lessons and assessments. Complete the full pathway and you hold a certificate for all three levels, which shows you have worked through the entire route from observing a player to leading a group.
A certificate confirms that you completed an FCI course. It is not a licence, badge or diploma.
No. Access is personal and meant for one coach. Want to train several coaches? Have a look at the club licences below.
Yes. Club licences are priced per coach, and the price per coach goes down as you enrol more coaches. Because every club is different, all club packages are on quote.
Send us a request with the number of coaches you want to enrol, and we will get back to you with a quote.
The club receives one code per coach. The club hands these out itself, and each coach uses his code at checkout to get the course for free. Their personal account is created at the same time.
No. Each coach follows the course in his own personal account, and FCI does not share individual progress with the club.
No. Each licence is personal to the coach who uses it. It cannot be transferred, and it cannot be reused once that coach has completed the course.
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