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Diploma in Goalkeeper Science

The Diploma in Goalkeeper Science combines 2 courses into one complete certified pathway — spanning youth and senior professional goalkeeping.

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Course Details

This diploma delivers the complete certified pathway — across all 2 courses you will:

Professional Certificate in Goalkeeper Coaching Science (Pro Youth Level)

This online goalkeeper coaching course is suitable for: Individuals tasked with the responsibility for the coaching, training, & preparation aspects of youth players and goalkeepers. Individuals tasked with the responsibility for the training, preparation, development & coaching aspects across the youth development phases. The focus of the course is as follows:
  • Provides latest research findings, & contemporary training methods and detailed insights into youth goalkeeper development;
  • Provides a better understanding of how to maximise goalkeeping development & the long-term athletic stages across players pathway;
  • Help maximise your decision-making when working with goalkeepers within younger age groups.

Professional Masters in Goalkeeper Coaching Science (Senior Pro Level)

This course has been described as one of the best online courses for further developing & adding to football coaching qualifications, where you will be exposed to goalkeeping specific football coaching research and practical examples used within the game by high level professionals. The focus of the course is as follows:
  • Provides you with increased evidence & knowledge to understand key physical training aspects, goalkeeper coaching science and a performance training methodology process.
  • Help you to understand the key performance elements and interventions used to organise a training development model in line with physical development of players.
  • Gives you more information in order to prepare, perform & recover your goalkeepers or team sport athletes from both a training and match-play or competitive scenario.
  • Allows practitioners and coaches to benefit themselves and their goalkeepers even further by having a greater depth of knowledge in this key football coaching area.
  • Learn from industry experts in the area of goalkeeping performance coaching, football science and sport methodology.
Official Accreditation By ISSPF

This course is fully accredited by ISSPF & ensures the study hours will contribute to the achievement of a formal accreditation & ISSPF continued professional development.

UEFA Federations

Official Accreditation By Latvian Football Federation (UEFA)

The Latvian Football Federation (LFF) fully accredits ISSPF online courses. Completion of these courses contributes to formal LFF accreditation and professional development. ISSPF courses are also recognized for UEFA PRO to C course revalidation and Professional Diploma refreshment.

Official Accreditation By Slovenian FA (NSZ) (UEFA)

The Slovenian FA (NSZ) fully accredits ISSPF online courses. Completion of these courses contributes to formal NSZ accreditation and professional development. ISSPF courses are also recognized for UEFA PRO to C course revalidation and Professional Diploma refreshment.

Official Accreditation By Iceland FA (KSI) (UEFA)

The Iceland FA (KSI) fully accredits ISSPF online courses. Completion of these courses contributes to formal KSI accreditation and professional development. ISSPF courses are also recognized for UEFA PRO to C course revalidation and Professional Diploma refreshment.

Official Accreditation By Lithuanian Football Federation (UEFA)

The Lithuania FF (LFF) fully accredits ISSPF online courses. Completion of these courses contributes to formal LFF accreditation and professional development. ISSPF courses are also recognized for UEFA PRO to C course revalidation and Professional Diploma refreshment.

CONCACAF Federation

Accredited by British Virgin Islands Football Association (BVIFA), CONCACAF

This online course holds full accreditation from the BVIFA, guaranteeing that study hours count toward formal accreditation and BVIFA's professional development. Additionally, it's accepted for BVIFA-CONCACAF course revalidation.

Official Course Endorsement

Endorsed By Scottish Football Association (SFA)

This course has been endorsed by the SFA as part of the revalidation process.

Endorsed By Bournemouth University (BU)

This course is fully endorsed by the Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, England, UK.

Endorsed By East Tennessee State University (ETSU)

This course is fully endorsed by the ETSU, Tennessee, USA.

Endorsed By Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)

This course is fully endorsed by the UiTM, Malaysia.

Endorsed By Wrexham University

This course is fully endorsed by the Wrexham University, Wrexham, Wales, UK.

Official Course Endorsement By Estonia Football Association (UEFA)

The Estonia FA (EJL) endorses ISSPF online courses. Completion of these courses contributes to professional development. ISSPF courses can be used for UEFA PRO to C course revalidation and Professional Diploma refreshment.

Official Accreditation By Football Association of Finland (UEFA)

The FA of Finland (FAF) accredits ISSPF online courses as part of their UEFA coaching program & course revalidation. Completion of these courses contributes to formal FAF accreditation refreshment and professional development.

What’s included in this diploma

12 hrs learningAdvanced

Professional Certificate in Goalkeeper Coaching Science (Pro Youth Level)

The Professional Certificate in Goalkeeper Coaching Science (Pro-Youth Level) provides the latest training methods, tactics and strategies for helping coaches prepare, train and develop youth goalkeepers.

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What you’ll cover
  • The role of the goalkeeper coach
  • Training Design & Application in Youth Development (LTAD)
  • Individual development of the goalkeeper within a team environment
  • Nutritional Support for the Youth Soccer Player: Maturation Status & LTAD
  • Youth Goalkeeper Development: Long Term Development
  • Goalkeeping Expectations: Roles of the GK within the function of the game
  • Skill Acquisition in Goalkeeping: Developing technical proficiency for situational effectiveness
  • Goalkeeper Coaching Analysis: Developmental Approach to Goalkeeping
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30 hrs learningAdvanced

Professional Masters in Goalkeeper Coaching Science (Senior Pro Level)

The Professional Certificate in Goalkeeper Coaching Science course provides the latest training methods, tactics and detailed insights to help coaches develop their own skills training and maximizing the development of goalkeepers.

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What you’ll cover
  • The role of the Goalkeeper Coach
  • The specific competitive demands of the modern Goalkeeper
  • Modern Soccer Goalkeeper Training - An introduction to contemporary training
  • Soccer specific movement preparation: Improving efficiency
  • Philosophical and Technical Insights to Goalkeeper Training
  • Dietary Analysis of a Goalkeeper - Elite EPL Player Case Study
  • Developing a Goalkeeper specific soccer game and training model
  • Managing pressure: Emotion, Anxiety & Coping in elite soccer
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Your tutors

All 12 tutors who present a module across the 2 courses in this pathway.

Fraser StewartFraser Stewart
GoalkeeperTraining Methodology

Kilmarnock's head of goalkeeping, with almost a decade of Scottish FA coach education behind him and a long view of how keepers are developed.

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Alex Segovia VilchezAlex Segovia Vilchez
Strength & Conditioning

Singapore's national development centre is where he leads performance, with the U16 side alongside it - long-term youth athletic development.

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Ivan KovčićIvan Kovčić
GoalkeeperTraining Methodology

Seven years coaching Dinamo Zagreb's goalkeepers, latterly heading the academy programme, plus a spell with Croatia's U19 national team.

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Jack ChristopherJack Christopher
NutritionStrength & Conditioning

Chelsea's academy has employed him since 2017, latterly as head of performance support, with a season on first-team sport science and nutrition.

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Eduardo CachuloEduardo Cachulo
GoalkeeperTraining Methodology

Sub-coordinates NEOM's goalkeeping academy and coaches its U18 keepers, after a season assisting inside Real Valladolid's senior goalkeeping room.

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Jeff RichardsonJeff Richardson
PsychologyCoaching Principles

Brentford academy goalkeeping coach and an ISSPF lecturer since 2020, connecting keeper practice to coach pedagogy and performance psychology.

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Daniel Tumelty-BevanDaniel Tumelty-Bevan
Training MethodologyCoaching Principles

Heads academy goalkeeping at Birmingham City, where the subject is age-appropriate methodology, not a senior session shrunk to fit younger keepers.

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Graeme SmithGraeme Smith
GoalkeeperTraining Methodology

Played professionally, then took charge of goalkeeping performance and coach education for the Scottish FA - grassroots to elite pathway in one remit.

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Daniel OrtizDaniel Ortiz
Training MethodologyCoaching Principles

At FC Andorra he coaches the first-team goalkeepers and runs the set pieces, pairing keeper methodology with detail most weeks leave until Friday.

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Dr. Fabian OtteDr. Fabian Otte
PsychologyCoaching Principles

Goalkeeping lead at Tottenham after Liverpool, Mönchengladbach and Burnley, and a skill-acquisition researcher on how keepers actually learn.

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Aleksa BoskovicAleksa Boskovic
Strength & ConditioningInjury Prevention

Movement preparation as the route to output - better efficiency, smarter load, less injury risk - taught from work across Europe, the Gulf and Asia.

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Dr. Liam AndersonDr. Liam Anderson
NutritionInjury Prevention

Assistant professor in applied exercise physiology at Birmingham, with a Liverpool John Moores doctorate and consultancy inside elite football.

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What you get with your enrolment:

  • Full lifetime access
  • Study online at your own pace
  • Certificate on completion

Reviews from professional coaches

Steve McClaren
Steve McClarenManchester Utd
"This is by far the most innovative style of learning that I've seen in this digital era. The breadth of topics covered, combined with the level of detail and insights makes this a must learning environment for any coach who is working or wants to get into the game and progress to the highest levels."

Manchester Utd, Middlesborough, FC Twente, Wolfsburg, Nottingham Forest, Derby County, England

Ringo Wu
Ringo WuAFC ‘B’ Coaching Certificate
ISSPF have managed to provide our soccer coaching staff within our college team with a 1st class opportunity to learn & apply some key performance coaching aspects. The opportunity to personally develop & track the staff’s progress through their assisted e-learning process is very impressive. I highly recommend the content as a must for all individuals tasked with the development of soccer players across all levels of the game."

Head of Physical Education & Sport, Nanwai Kings College Soccer Team, Jinkai District, Jiangsu, China

Kari Ukkonen
Kari UkkonenUEFA Professional License
Working with ISSPF as an educational partner has allowed us here at the Football Association the chance to provide CPD and continue to educate our coaches across a wide range of learning levels from our UEFA foundation levels through our UEFA Professional Licence. Offering our candidates, the chance to use both the ISSPF platform & specific soccer courses, is a huge advantage to us as an education provided within the game

Head of Coach Education, Football Association of Finland, UEFA, Helsinki, Finland

Vin Blaine
Vin BlaineCONCACAF
An experienced director with a demonstrated history of working in the soccer industry & having developed across a range of sports psychology, match analysis, player development, and sports management – I feel the opportunity to integrate the e-learning facility available from ISSPF into as a federation, club or individual self-development level is of huge benefit. As a FIFA & CONCACAF Instructor & Director of Football I have rarely seen an educational tool as good as this to positively influence individuals across a range of key soccer topics.
Leo Lucas da Silva
Leo Lucas da SilvaLevel-2 License
Using the ISSPF learning facility has opened my eyes to the detail and incredible knowledge provided from an elite faculty of elite coach developers and soccer science educators. As an individual who continually wants to progress my coaching pathway, I think this might be the best solution to increase my awareness of all elements of the game. The large amount of content and lectures available has already, and will continue to improve me. Gaining the Foundation Certificate in Soccer Science & Performance was extremely to me.

Youth Academy Coach, Botafogo de Futebol, Brazil

Sir Alex Ferguson
Sir Alex FergusonManchester United
Sports science, without question is the biggest, most important change in my lifetime. It has moved the game onto another level that maybe we never dreamt of all those years ago. Sports science has brought a whole new dimension to the game.

Aberdeen, Manchester United

Oriol Gonzales
Oriol GonzalesUEFA Professional License
Living abroad to work as a soccer coach has its difficulties in terms of coach education provision due to travel and time commitments. Being able to access the ISSPF platform has allowed me not only to maximise my spare time from a self-development perspective, but we have also been able to gain certifications & qualifications as a club across all elements of the game. From our senior squad staff to the academy staff, ISSPF is a fundamental education tool for our club development strategy.”

Head Coach & Technical Director, Angkor Tigers FC, Asian Champions League, Cambodian Superleague, Cambodia

Jingze Quan
Jingze QuanAFC ‘B’ Coaching Certificate
Being able to develop the coaching staff throughout the club here in Eagles River FC is a large part of my role within the club. Having come across ISSPF and now using the e-learning platform for our English-speaking Chinese coaching, and medical staff we have been able to improve our focus and upgrade some key elements within the organisation. As a large grassroots club here within the province, we feel using ISSPF as an educational partnership is of huge benefit”

Director of Youth Development Coaching, Eagles River FC, Yanbian, Jilin, China

Woody Jacobs
Woody JacobsSAFA Level 1 Diploma
Working as both Assistant Manager with elite players of our national team, I have been able to directly take a lot of content and thought provoking ideas from the content on view within ISSPF and use them to the benefit of our national players. Furthermore, I am delighted to say that we are now integrating the ISSPF online courses into our coach development program to uplift the whole coaching education aspects of our nation.

Assistant Manager & Coach Developer, Namibian National Soccer Association, Namibia

Susan Lockyear
Susan LockyearFFA Advanced Coaching License
As the game develops within the professional women’s game & also filters down within the girl’s academy programs across the world, we are proud to be at the forefront of driving the developmental aspects of the game in this area. To be able to link as an educational partnership with ISSPF is a huge part of our federation soccer development strategy, and as we can now offer a range of online content, certification qualifications and courses from a range of leading professionals – we have already seen a direct enhancement across our coaching content and performance department delivery.

Head Coach & Technical Director, Canberra State County FA, Australia

Lorenzo Francini
Lorenzo FranciniMSc
As a fitness coach and sport scientist working at the elite level of the female game, I feel that ISSPF and their integration of both applied and academic quality is something that will be of huge importance for people within our industry. ISSPF have manage to accumulate a faculty of leaders across soccer science, medical & coaching science that will enable them to educate people from a very insightful and practitioning way.

Head of Performance, AC Milan, Women’s Division, Italy

Peter McDonnell
Peter McDonnellUEFA A License
The layers of content within ISSPF is in a league of it's on when considering CPD options for coaches of all levels. Having explored many avenues through my own coaching journey, the detail embedded in the courses really lends itself to closing the gap between the integrated knowledge across the fields of Sports Science and the actual application of the skills on the field. Being able to learn from many experts, across a global faculty, affords me the ability to step into their professional world and soak in the abundant knowledge they have, all in my own time.

Assistant Soccer Coach – The University of Maine

Claudio Donatelli
Claudio Donatelli
ISSPF have been able to seamlessly provide all individuals with an interest in team sports and specifically soccer with the chance to learn from some of the best people in their key research areas. Developing throughout my career as a fitness & conditioning expert and applying the scientific principles of training at the elite level of the soccer, I feel being able to use the e-learning strategy within ISSPF challenges and adds further credibility to my working practices. I highly recommend individuals from all learning levels to tap into the fantastic resource available here.

Performance & Fitness Coach Italian National Team

Tony Merola
Tony MerolaUEFA A License
Never before have I seen a unique set of soccer specific performance & coaching specialists under one banner and available 24 hours a day 7 days a week to learn within the comfort of my own home. Being part of the educational partnership program with ISSPF has opened up a new & time efficient way for both myself as Technical Director, and my club coaching and fitness staff to up skill and develop as coaches.

Boys ECNL Director – Tulsa Soccer Club, USA

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