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Get real-world coaching skills with Manchester City F.C.’s foundation, City in the Community, and discover how sport can create a brighter future for your community and your career.
Sport has an incredible power to touch people’s lives – transcending social divisions, promoting healthy lifestyles and opening doors to opportunity. Our BSc (Hons) Manchester City Community Football Coaching programme is designed to give you that power, by matching our academic expertise with the facilities, experience a...
3 years full-time
6 years part-time
4 years with placement
Manchester - the Etihad Campus and Platt Lane Sports Complex
Mike Geary“We are extremely proud of the ongoing partnership between City in the Community and Manchester Metropolitan University. This degree programme offers a truly unique learning opportunity, supported by practical experience, all within the inspiring environment at the City Football Academy on the Etihad Campus. We hope that the partnership continues for years to come, and we’re sure that many more qualified and experienced students will graduate from the programme, forming the next generation of sports coaches and community leaders, inspiring sporting, active and healthy communities.”
Head of City in the Community
This three-year programme offers the opportunity to hone cutting-edge coaching skills and knowledge in the real world, by working in partnership with Manchester City F.C.’s City in the Community Foundation. As such, it’s a course that looks beyond the boundaries of football coaching, helping you harness a broad range of sporting activity to make a meaningful impact on people’s health and lifestyle.
In your first year, you’ll look at the fundamentals of coaching, as well as issues around sport in society and the policies and practices of sport. You’ll also work on the research skills vital for tackling the academic aspects of the course.
Building on those areas in your second year, you’ll move onto more advanced areas of sport coaching and research methods. You'll also gain insight into strength and conditioning and performance analysis.
In your final year, you’ll engage in advanced modules in community sport coaching, contemporary issues in sport and global sporting perspectives. Finally, the degree programme finishes off with a research project of your own design, in a topic of your choosing.
Crucially, each year also includes work-based learning modules with City in the Community, where you’ll put the theory into practice and complete professional coaching qualifications – stepping out of the classroom and onto the training pitches at the state-of-the-art Etihad campus. You’ll help deliver a series of initiatives that harness sport to promote health, education and inclusion. So rather than coaching elite players or unearthing the next academy prospect, you’ll work with various community groups, developing real-world skills while you make a real-world impact.
The Etihad campus offers a brilliant environment for it all. And we know a thing or two about incredible campuses – it’s not long since we cut the ribbon on our £26 million Institute of Sport facility, which not only offers first-class spaces for your studies, but state-of-the-art physiology labs, performance analysis facilities and advanced imaging equipment too.
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Whether you’ve already made your decision about what you want to study, or you’re just considering your options, there are lots of ways you can meet us and find out more about student life at Manchester Met.
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Your studies are supported by a department of committed and enthusiastic teachers and researchers, experts in their chosen field.
We often link up with external professionals too, helping to enhance your learning and build valuable connections to the working world.
These typical entry requirements may be subject to change for the 2025/26 academic year. Please check back for further details.
Full-time fee: £9,535 for the 2025/26 academic year (subject to Parliamentary approval). Fees for subsequent academic years may increase for inflation to reflect increased costs of course delivery (up to a maximum of 10% per academic year) and/or changes in UK government regulation. Inflationary increases will be calculated by reference to RPIx (RPIx is a measure of inflation in the UK). Fee increases are subject to limits imposed by UK government regulation.
Fees for this course have yet to be confirmed and will be updated as soon as more information is available.
Full-time fee: £21,500 per year. Tuition fees will remain the same for each year of your course providing you complete it in the normal timeframe (no repeat years or breaks in study).
Fees for this course have yet to be confirmed and will be updated as soon as more information is available.
A degree typically comprises 360 credits, a DipHE 240 credits, a CertHE 120 credits, and an integrated masters 480 credits. For courses that offer a placement year option that starts in September 2025, the tuition fee is £1,907 (subject to Parliamentary approval). For courses that offer a study year abroad option that starts in September 2025, the tuition fee is £1,430 (subject to Parliamentary approval). Placement Year fees and study abroad fees for subsequent academic years may increase for inflation to reflect increased costs of course delivery (up to a maximum of 10% each academic year) and/or changes in UK government regulation. Inflationary increases will be calculated by reference to RPIx (RPIx is a measure of inflation in the UK). Fee increases are subject to limits imposed by UK government regulation.
Part-time students may take a maximum of 90 credits each academic year.
Placement costs for 2025 entry are to be confirmed. In 2022, the tuition fee for the placement year for those courses that offer this option was £1,850, subject to inflationary increases based on government policy and providing you progress through the course in the normal timeframe (no repeat years or breaks in study). The tuition fee for a placement year abroad for those courses that offer this option was £1,385, subject to inflationary increases based on government policy and providing you progress through the course in the normal timeframe (no repeat years or breaks in study).
Resources: All of the books required for the course are available from the library. The University also has PC laboratories and a laptop loan service. However, many students choose to buy some of the core textbooks for the course and/or a laptop. Students may also need to print their assignments and other documents. Campus printing costs start from 5p per page. Estimated costs are £300 for a laptop and up to £200 each year for books and printing.
Travel: Students will be required to travel between specialist facilities, such as our All Saints and Platt Lane sites. An annual bus pass for travel around Manchester costs approximately £240 (indicative).
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Money MattersFew sports-focused courses can offer such extraordinary learning environments and experiences. So it’s perhaps no surprise that this course boasts such an impressive track record for starting so many sporting careers. With its practical focus and unrivalled learning experiences, this is a course that can equip you for a broad range of career paths and possibilities across the sector.
It’s a well-trodden route into teaching, with graduates going on to complete their PGCE and some going straight into coaching roles at school level. Others have gone on to coach at clubs across the country and with coaching organisations around the world. For a few, it’s a degree that’s opened doors to full-time roles with the City Football Group (not just in Manchester, but around the world). Some of our graduates have even launched their own coaching businesses. As such, whether you see your future in performance analysis, physical education, sport development or community coaching, this course offers an ideal starting point.
‘Football is for everyone’: Student volunteers help to make sport more inclusive
The One City Disability Event brings together children with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities from secondary schools across Manchester, to the Etihad Campus, for a day of friendly competition and football, three times per year.
Hosted by Manchester City Football Club’s City in the Community Foundation, and student volunteers from Manchester Metropolitan University, the event offers children who have additional needs an avenue to compete in their own league, and in a professional sporting environment.
You can apply for the full-time option of this course through UCAS.
UCAS code(s)FCM1
Institution code: M40
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