FC 11

The FC11 Diploma of Sport Development for Football (SIS50612) provides access to a full time high performance football training system, reinforced by a nationally accredited academic qualification and professional industry specific credentials.

All graduates will be provided with an opportunity to train and work within a full-time professional environment, preparing them for a career in football or the wider context of sports management and administration.

This program is offered on a full time basis, Monday to Thursday, 9:00am - 4:00pm. May 2014 intake total 26 weeks, March 2015 intake total 30 weeks.

As a full time athlete you will gain the opportunity to:

-Access and train at our elite training facilities at the National Centre of Indigenous -Excellence Sports Facility in Redfern (Sydney campus) or the University of Melbourne (Melbourne campus)
-Receive a comprehensive high performance training and playing apparel package
-Further academic pathways and progression upon completion
-Athlete management, personal, career and professional development mentoring and advice
-Personalised recovery, strength and conditioning systems and contact with the latest performance evaluation methods and technologies
-High performance football related technical, tactical and mental training sessions and match programme performance analysis
-Access domestic and overseas high profile coaches, players, industry experts and leaders
-Comprehensive athlete fitness profiling, programming, field and laboratory physical assessments
-Nationally recognised industry specific coaching and training qualifications
-Seminar based Professional Development on: Performing within a Culture of ---- --
-Excellence, Modern Applications Towards Achieving Optimal Performances In Football, The Business of Football, Understanding the Importance of Leadership, Preparing Mental Resilience and Establishing Highly Effective Team Practices

Did you know?

Research on successful and talented players in sport has acknowledged the correlation between frequency of deliberate practice and the achievement of expertise. The notion of 10,000 hours of practice being required to develop expertise is now widely understood and accepted as a valid model from which to gauge the progression of potential elite players.

All student athletes are encouraged to maintain playing commitments in their available club structures, as it will assist in maintaining the well documented hours per week required to achieve optimal results in overall performance excellence required by elite athletes at the highest levels.

Any footballer in the professional development phase (17 – 21 years of age) of their careers needs a minimum of 16 hours of performance development contact time, inclusive of a sound match related programme, whereby effective results can be realised.

For the player not identified already at the national level, ‘The FC 11 Diploma of Football’, is the only available model in Australia that will allow a player the means by which these determinants to potential success can be assisted.