PREMIER LEAGUE

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT RULES
STAFF
Guidance
These Rules require the following Academy Staff to hold an up to date UEFA A Licence:
• Head of Academy Coaching (Rule 60.3);
• Coach Developer (Rule 75.3);
• Senior Professional Development Coach (Rule 68.3).
The FA Youth Award (see Rule 1.24) has been introduced during Season 2011/12 and accordingly coaches can now enrol on
the course to obtain this Award. It is recognised that a considerable number of coaches will need to progress through the FA
course, and the FA’s current view is that it will take at least until the end of Season 2013/14 for all coaches to obtain it. A
timetable for full implementation will be drawn up in consultation with the FA and Clubs and further advice given in due
course. Accordingly Clubs shall not be penalised if coaches have not obtained this Award pending such further advice.
Similar points apply to the FA Advanced Youth Award which will be introduced in due course, and no Club will be penalised
if its coaches do not hold it pending finalisation of the timetable for its introduction.
72. Each coach (including goalkeeping coaches) must attend at least five hours of in-service training
to be provided by the Football Association each year and the first aid training for Academy coaches
provided by the Football Association at least once every three years .
73. In addition to the in-service training referred to in Rule 72, each coach must undertake Continued
Professional Development organised by the Club.
Guidance
The Leagues and the FA will establish and maintain a national database of qualifications of coaches, and the in-service
training they have undertaken.
Coach Developer
74. Each Club which operates a Category 1 Academy shall either:
74.1. employ a Full Time Coach Developer; or
74.2. demonstrate to the reasonable satisfaction of the League, ISO or PGB (whichever body is
appropriate) that it has a dedicated resource which is available at all times to the Academy
coaching staff and which resource undertakes the same functions as the functions of the
Coach Developer set out in Rule 75.
75. The Coach Developer shall:
75.1. be responsible for designing and delivering the Club’s Continued Professional Development,
which shall reflect the Club’s Football Philosophy, for all Full Time and Part Time coaches;
75.2. report to the Academy Manager; and
75.3. hold at least an up to date UEFA A Licence, an FA Youth Award and an FA Advanced Youth Award.
76. Each Club which operates a Category 2 Academy shall either:
76.1. employ a Coach Developer on at least a Part Time basis; or
76.2. demonstrate to the reasonable opinion of the League or ISO or the PGB (whichever body is
appropriate) that it has a dedicated resource which is available to the Academy coaching
staff and which resource undertakes the same functions as those of the Coach Developer.
77. Coach Developers must attend at least five hours of in-service training to be provided by the
Football Association each year and the first aid training for coaches provided by the Football
Association at least once every three years.
78. In addition to the in-service training referred to in Rule 77, the Coach Developer must undertake
Continued Professional Development organised by the Club.
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