Coaching students to benefit from UCFB’s new partnership with Sport Session Planner

UCFB is delighted to be launching a partnership alongside Sport Session Planner, offering a wide range of unrivalled opportunities and experiences to our incoming* coaching students.

We will be working alongside Sport Session Planner to provide students starting in 2025 across all campuses with access to Sport Session Planner — the advanced session planning and 3D animation platform used by leading football clubs and associations around the world.

This collaboration brings professional-level technology into the heart of football education, supporting incoming UCFB students in their development as coaches, analysts, and future leaders in the game.

As well as accessing this state-of-the-art tactical system, many students on our coaching courses will receive further benefits from this partnership.

Sport Session Planner will be offering insight sessions, as well as providing potential work experience and placement opportunities to students to go alongside their UCFB studies.

Students who will benefit most from this new partnership will be those starting in September 2025 on one of our many sports coaching-related degree courses, including:

• BA (Hons) Football Coaching (distance with attendance)

• BA (Hons) Football Coaching and Management

• BA (Hons) Football Coaching and Talent Development

• BA (Hons) Football Coaching and Talent Development (distance with attendance)

• BA (Hons) Sports Business and Coaching

• BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching Science

Speaking on the launch of the partnership, UCFB’s Director of Student Recruitment, Nick Wilkinson, said: “We’re delighted to form a partnership with Sport Session Planner to provide our latest coaching students with an opportunity to become familiar with some of the industry-standard tools used in the modern professional game. We look forward to this relationship taking our students’ learning experience to the next level.”

“At Sport Session Planner,” added CEO Magnus Alford, “we’re proud to support the next generation of coaches through our partnership with UCFB. Our platform is used by leading clubs and associations worldwide, and this collaboration ensures that UCFB students will gain hands-on experience with the same advanced tools that professionals rely on every day. By combining innovative technology with world-class coach education, we aim to give students the skills and confidence to excel in their coaching careers.”

Learn more about UCFB’s wide range of industry partners, who offer our students an array of opportunities and experiences during their three years studying with us.

You can also view a prospectus to find out all about our unique courses, campuses and all things related to student life at UCFB.

*Students who have already begun their studies at UCFB will still be able to access Sport Session Plannerfeatures, but this will come with a fee.