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COACH EDUCATION
Better Coaches | Better Players

NZF LEARN

NZF Learn offers coaches the opportunity to learn in their own time, whilst still holding onto the most important part of a course: the in-person engagement with peers, and educators and the quality conversations which take place at those times.

The three updated community courses below are now available. These courses consist of both online modules and an in-person practical component.

FUN-damentals of Junior Coaching Award
Junior Level 1 Coaching Award
Youth Level 1 Coaching Award

To register for a course practical component, please see below for available sessions and click to register. We encourage you to complete the online modules before attending the practical session.

Please note that delivery of the Senior Level One Coaching Award and Junior, Youth, and Futsal Level Two Coaching Awards will remain the same for 2024. Please see below for upcoming courses.

NZF ADVANCED COACHING COURSES & MASTERCLASSES
For coaches looking to start or further their journey on the Advanced Coaching Pathway

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OCF/NZF C Licence
13 -16 March 2025

This course is aimed at developing coaches that are working with talented players aged 13-19 years or senior players. This course has been developed from researching best practice methods from all over the world and is based on the The Professional Coaching Model, an approach that is structured to promote high level learning and allow coaches to design season long programmes to help their players solve football problems.

Course Content incudes
•   Match analysis.
•   The objectives and structure of Football.
•   The NZF Philosophy and Vision.
•   The NZF Team Model.
•   Developing a coaching process.
•   Plan, prepare, conduct and evaluate a game training session

Registrations Close: 21st February 2025
Course Cost: $1190+GST
Course Deposit: $342.50

Junior Level 3
21-23 February 2025

This course is aimed at coaches looking to provide a comprehensive programme for Junior Footballers (grassroots / talented players aged 9-12 years), allowing them to flourish both as young players and as young people. Focusing on skill acquisition, it will provide coaches with the knowledge, tools and ability to create a development programme that ensures that all players are involved in appropriate activities and the appropriate times.

Registrations Close: 4th February 2025
Course Cost: $575 + GST
Course Deposit: $165.25

OFC/NZF GK C Licence
4-7 December 2025

The OFC/NZF Goalkeeping C Licence course is designed for coaches taking their first step on the advanced pathway for goalkeeping. The course will cover development from junior-youth-senior goalkeeping.

The objective of the course is to support coaches with exposing their coaching practice to methods, strategies and frameworks to best support their goalkeepers and working with other staff by:

Understand yourself and your goalkeepers better in order to improve
Understand and apply fundamental principles of goalkeeper development at appropriate age and stages
To successfully evaluate goalkeeper match performance in order to plan appropriate sessions to improve performance
Understand the importance of the coaching process and the application of key coaching principles.

This is a 5 day course and has a mix of theory, practical and E-learning modules.

Candidates will be challenged to critically analyse their coaching practice and seek ways to evolve their coaching practice within their current context.

On the completion of all course tasks, including a final assessment, the coach will be awarded the OFC/NZF Goalkeeping C Licence and gain 100 Continual Professional Development (CPD) accreditation points.

Registrations Close 14 November 2025
Course Cost: $1190+GST
Course Deposit: $342.50

JUNIOR COACHING COURSES
Suitable for those who coach from First Kicks to U12

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YOUTH COACHING COURSES
Suitable for those who coach from U13 to U17

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SENIOR COACHING COURSES
Suitable for those who coach open aged teams

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GOALKEEPER COACHING COURSES
Suitable for those who coach goalkeepers

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FUTSAL COURSES

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Futsal Level 2
Saturday 1 Feb 2025

The Futsal Level 2 award aims to support coaches to plan, prepare, conduct and evaluate training sessions appropriate for Futsal players in the Game Training phase, as well as enabling coaches to have an understanding of providing player feedback in the Game Training phase. The course is split into five parts; Analysis of Futsal, Principles of Training, Group Training Design, Group Game Training Delivery and Player Learning.

Course Details
Saturday 1 Feb 2025
Capital Football Offices, Memorial Park
9:00am-3:00pm
$60

CPD Points

The Continual Professional Development (CPD) Programme applies to all coaches with an Advanced Coaching qualification and all qualified coach developers.

While coaches and coach developers are qualified for life, the ‘active’ status of qualifications are valid for a three-year period. To extend the ‘active’ status of qualifications for a further three years, coaches must earn 100 CPD points within that time frame.

OTHER FEDERATION COURSES
See what other courses are being held around New Zealand by visiting other federation websites

Central Football

Mainland Football

Waibop Football

Southern Football

Northern Region Football

COACHMATE

New Zealand Football, with support from McDonalds, is on the CoachMate app.

CoachMate makes coaching football fun and easy for the whole team. Improve your coaching skills with practice games and plans made by pro’s, get everyone in sync with team management, and learn how to set your team up to thrive on the app.

Download CoachMate for free for iOS and Android.

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