The Football Federation across Europe led four licensing schemes of accredited by UEFA to qualify and enable them to progress to work in professional games and beyond.
Each course delivers an individual association of the country, which will decide the way the plus number of available places and fees were delivered.
The UEFA B license allows coaches to manage in the leagues of one and two, UEFA A in the Championship and UEFA PRO license for the Premier League clubs, as well as matches in Europe.
FA takes all its courses in their dedicated football home, in St. George in Staffordshire. But to earn a place in some of its higher -grade classes is a challenge, and the license is reportedly almost 10 times subscribed to its 120 seats a year.
Demand outweighs the offer so much for the qualification that it rejected some coaches from the continuation of their journey, while others watched abroad to continue their ascent on the ladder.
One of them is Simon Goodyy, whose Fa and fourth is rejected in the course A and the fourth by Scottish FA, despite the previous training at Southampton’s male and female to set up young IS Colchester United.
From there, he decided to move to Spain to give a better opportunity to complete his badge than to try again through the English authorities – despite speaking none of the languages and had to take over another job as a teacher PE who would support himself on the continent.
His experiences since they included training son Fernanda Torres Nicolas while working at the Atletico Madrid Academy for two years. Now runs one of the U19 pages at the fourth level The SD Compostela and has ambitions to become an older main coach in the future.
“Spain was something I saw as an opportunity to progress,” he says Sky Sports. “I got a little stuck in England because I made my B license at 19.
“It was much easier in Spain. It was still with a lot of challenges, I had to learn Spanish and take a Spanish exam to even enroll in a course and licenses.
“Having spent five years abroad, I would definitely recommend it if you pass a young coach. It’s a great path to consider.
“Unfortunately, it is harder for coaches to come abroad than Brexit. It would be great if FA could find ways for young coaches to spend time with the club in another country or to put regional licenses like they already exist in Spain.
“It would be a little cheaper, because the coaches would not have to pay for accommodation (at St. George’s Park). I see a lot of coaches who fall in love with the game because I can’t make progress.”
FA is comfortable with the outside with the current setting, especially with prices they consider to be competitive across Europe, despite anecdotic reports that have also proven to be a difficult obstacle to some coaches.
Pro license costs a significant amount in England with almost £ 14,000, although it is still less than the coaches pay in France, the Netherlands and Germany.
In Spain, the course costs about half a price of England, although regionally delivered with significantly lower accommodation costs than through FA, where all students are obliged to stay in St. George while studying.
“Where we hold courses centrally, especially in a professional game, it helps us to improve standards during training,” says the FA chief for the development of coach Dan Clements Dan Clements Sky Sports.
“If the other nation has delivered it in a different way, it can correspond to their culture, system and regulations they operate.
“We have an auxiliary one central place where we can provide coach education that runs standards, I think.”
The same feeling is about the difficulty in transmitting and licenses. Fa points to the quality of their learning and suggests that he is not ready to compromise to increase accessibility.
They also defend their record for former players for those few available places – despite the rise of coaches who have never professionally played at the highest levels of the game.
“The license is a very good qualification,” Clements says. “He’s a real driver in a professional game.
“With this our priority is sitting in a professional game. Individuals outside the professional game are quite challenging.
“We are really proud of the work we do in that space and have committed ourselves to give more opportunities to those coaches who have ambitions to progress in a professional game.”
Finally, with the number of places for a Pro license that UEFA set as 24 per country, the number of potential premier league managers that come from year by year is no different than any other main country.
But whether they will be given that chance is the biggest obstacle. While 10 percent of the Premier League bosses are English, this number increases to 54 percent in the championship, 63 percent in League 1 and 67 percent in the league two.
So, there is no doubt that managers are there. But does the Premier League feel the need – or worse responsibility – to give them that opportunity in the world full of other options?
With the direction of travel since 1992, there are few signs that suggest that this is the case.
If something wider changes, the same conversations are likely to be reunited when England comes to seek Tuchel’s successor.
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2025-03-20 12:00:00
