Professional certificate · For anyone who coaches young goalkeepers, at any level
Know what each keeper needs next and how to get them there. Ten modules cover how skills are learned and progressed, playing out, pressure, analysis and nutrition.
Taught by professional goalkeeping coaches and performance specialists from the academies of FC Barcelona, Chelsea, Brentford, Birmingham City and Dinamo Zagreb.
If you coach goalkeepers, you've probably pieced your coaching together yourself. There's no shortage of drills. What's missing is a clear path for developing a young keeper that shows up in your next game.
This course gives you the whole path: drills and sessions from professional goalkeeping coaches, with the why behind them, so you know what each keeper needs next and can explain it to anyone who asks.
Know what each young goalkeeper you coach should be working on, how to develop them, and how to build skills that hold up in their matches.
The course covers the whole job: your role as their coach, their long-term development, how skills are learned and progressed, training alone and with the team, playing out, handling pressure, analysis, and nutrition as they grow. Every module is about the decisions you make with the keepers in front of you, whether that's one keeper in your child's team or an academy squad.
Most drills and tutorials teach the technique of stopping a shot. This course also develops what comes before it: how a keeper reads the situation, takes up position and decides what to do.
Anyone can show you the drill. We make sure you can explain it.
It works one keeper and one skill at a time, so it fits a single keeper as well as a squad.
ISSPF courses are accredited or endorsed by football federations and universities. The current list is at https://www.isspf.com/accreditations/.
It's a professional certificate you hold alongside your UEFA, FA or federation licence.
Taught by seven professional goalkeeping coaches and two performance specialists.
You'll learn what it means to be a specialist goalkeeping coach, and what to weigh up for your keeper in training and on match day.
You'll learn a model for developing physical qualities, where mechanical and functional activities fit, and how exercise progresses through youth development.
You'll learn when a keeper should train alone and when with the team, and how to spot their problems in football situations. You'll also get a simple test for what to work on: what keeps happening, not a one-off.
You'll learn how nutrition supports a young player through each phase of their development, as they grow and mature.
You'll learn where the goalkeeper coach fits in a club's technical department, what marks success in the position, and how a young keeper makes the move from youth to senior football.
You'll learn how to coach the keeper's job when the team attacks, defends and transitions, including communication and the key situations they have to deal with.
You'll learn how a keeper learns a new skill, and when to use repetition or practice that looks like the game. How often they get it right becomes your signal to take them to the next step.
You'll learn which types of goalkeeper analysis are used in youth football, and how they shape a goalkeeping curriculum. In one example, a goal that looks like a lost header turns out to come from the keeper's positioning and judgement of the cross.
You'll learn how emotion and anxiety affect a keeper, how they see a big moment, and how to prepare them mentally before a game. It's for the keeper who's sharp in training and different on match day.
You'll learn how FC Barcelona's academy builds distribution: the keeper and outfielders beating a high press together, the weaker foot as a real option, and keepers rating their own passes like a traffic light. You'll see one skill built step by step, from the basics into the game.
LTAD stands for long-term athletic development: how a young player's training builds over the years.
Professional Certificate in Goalkeeper Coaching Science (Pro-Youth Level)
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Yes. It's for anyone who coaches young goalkeepers, from a parent with one keeper to an academy squad. The coaches and specialists who teach it have worked at professional clubs and in national programmes, but what they teach works one keeper and one skill at a time. So it fits a single keeper as well as a group.
Yes. It's taught by goalkeeping coaches and performance specialists, about the decisions you make with your keepers. The modules on pressure and nutrition sit alongside the goalkeeping ones: pressure shapes how a keeper performs on match day, and nutrition supports them as they grow. If you can watch a keeper and count what they get right, you can use it.
There are plenty of drill clips, and some are good. A clip shows you one drill. It can't tell you whether your keeper is ready for it, what comes next or why. Neither can it give you a clear development pathway for your young keepers. This course gives you all of it: drills, sessions and a development plan from professional goalkeeping coaches, and how to choose, progress and explain them for the keeper in front of you.
As you work through it. You'll be coaching with the methods of professional goalkeeping coaches and performance specialists from the top level of the game: the academies of FC Barcelona, Chelsea, Brentford, Birmingham City and Dinamo Zagreb, Kilmarnock's goalkeeping department and Real Valladolid's senior goalkeepers. What you learn goes straight into your sessions: what each keeper should be working on, how to progress their skills and when to take them to the next step. Every session gets a clear purpose, and each keeper develops at their own pace.
ISSPF courses are accredited or endorsed by football federations and universities. The current list is at https://www.isspf.com/accreditations/. It's a professional certificate you hold alongside your UEFA, FA or federation licence.
Keepers in the adult game have their own ISSPF course: the Professional Masters in Goalkeeper Coaching Science (Senior Pro Level). This one is designed for coaches of young keepers.
Online and self-paced, so you study on your own schedule. It's taught in English, with subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German and Italian.
Each module is a video lesson from a professional goalkeeping coach or performance specialist, built around what you do on the training pitch.
You'll see how FC Barcelona's academy teaches its keepers to play out against a high press and rate their own passes like a traffic light.
You'll see how a new skill is taken from the basics into the game, how analysis finds the real cause of a goal, and how to prepare a keeper for the pressure of a match.
Every module is about the decisions you make with your keepers, so you can put it to work with your own keepers.
The course ends with a tutor-assessed assignment, so you can check you've got it before you use it with your keepers.
Yes. You receive a Certificate of Achievement once your assessments reach the 75% grade.
It's self-paced rather than live. You work through the modules on your own schedule, whenever it suits you.
"I know exactly what to do. I'm going to the ground with confidence because I'm in control now."
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"I have been coaching for 25 years and still consider myself a 'student of the game'."
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"The courses have clearly had a positive effect on my work and therefore my club and team. This is more important to me than the accreditation itself."
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"The flexible learning pace was also greatly appreciated, allowing me to integrate the course into my schedule without sacrificing quality."
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