MSc Performance Analysis in Football

• Applied Football Match Analysis
• Football Statistics and Data Analysis
• Talent Identification and Recruitment
• Applied Research Project
• Global Sports Leadership
• Applied Reflective Practice (Option)
• An Interdisciplinary Approach in Football (Option)

Students will select one option at the beginning of their course.

The main educational aims of the course are to:

• Conceptualise the knowledge and skills necessary for a career in the football industry.
• Develop the students’ capacity to critically interrogate theories that inform performance analysis principles and practice in a football context.
• Develop systematic knowledge and understanding of the theory and practice of performance analysis to enhance performance in a football context.
• Create an environment in which students are able to relate theory to practice, solve problems creatively, apply new and existing skills, and demonstrate awareness of emerging issues within the domain of performance analysis and related disciplines.
• Equip students with a range of research skills necessary to design and conduct applied research in a football context.
• To develop the students’ critical evaluation of their own practice and that of performers with the intention to engage in innovative activities linked to enhancing performance of self and performer.
• Providing opportunities for students to have access to industry standard hardware and software in order to fully integrate a technological approach to performance enhancement strategies.