6B028E - Football Performance Support: Enabling Winning Teams 01 Sep 2026 - 31 Aug 2032 | Version 0

Associated Module Information

Module Code: 6B028E
Module Title: Football Performance Support: Enabling Winning Teams
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences and Education
Faculty Group: Sport
Faculty Sub Group: Football Coaching
Module Leader: Ioan Paval
Module Team: Peter Ashcroft, Lee Baldock
First Intended Intake: SEP 2026 Final Year of Intake: 2031
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 30 Credit Level: 6
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100095 - sports coaching
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 0
Valid From 01 Sep 2026
Valid To 31 Aug 2032

Module Aims

The main aims of the module are: 

  • To develop advanced competence in integrating performance services (psychology, physical performance, and analysis) to optimise team performance and evidence based decision making culture. 

  • To enable students to design, manage, and critically evaluate high-performance systems and interdisciplinary collaboration within football to elicit performance enhancing interventions. 

Content Summary

This module is the pinnacle of the Football Performance Support pathway, where you move from supporting individual players (Level 5) to strategically leading integrated performance services for entire teams. You’ll explore how analysis, psychology, and physical performance work together to create winning cultures, resilient squads, and high-performing environments. 

You’ll learn how to coordinate departments, manage inter-disciplinary challenges, and integrate data into unified tactical, physical, and cultural strategies. The focus is on system-wide performance leadership and understanding how different services connect, how information flows, and how aligned processes drive collective success. 

Through authentic, challenge-based projects, you will evaluate team-level data sets, analyse group dynamics, and design holistic performance frameworks that enhance cohesion, wellbeing, and on-pitch outcomes. You’ll experience what it means to think like a performance leader, not just a practitioner. 

By the end of the module, you’ll be able to lead, integrate, and critically evaluate complex performance systems, turning insight into coordinated action that helps teams thrive both competitively and sustainably. 

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Seminars 30
Groupwork 33
Guided Study 105
Problem/Challenge based learning 36
Practical Classes and Workshops 20
Formative Assessment 25
Summative Assessment 51
Total Hours Selected 300

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Critically evaluate and synthesise multidisciplinary data to inform strategic decisions that enhance team performance and cohesion.
LO2 Integrate and interpret data from multiple performance domains to make evidence-based decisions that optimise team success.

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Student Choice 1 Challenging students to design and justify an integrated team-performance strategy that aligns psychological, physical, and analytical insights with a coherent tactical plan to support team preparation in football. Written Report or Oral Presentation 38 5300 100 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Student Choice 1

Reading List

Essential: 

Carlstedt, Roland A. Evidence-Based Applied Sport Psychology?: A Practitioner’s Manual. 1st ed. New York: Springer Pub. Company, 2013.  

 

Tod, David, Ken Hodge, and Vikki Krane. Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology: A Comprehensive Guide for Students and Practitioners. Ed. by David Tod, Vikki Krane, and Ken Hodge. Second edition. Oxford: Routledge, 2024.  

 

Baca, Arnold, and Ian M. Franks, eds. Essentials of Performance Analysis of Sport. Third edition. New York: Routledge, 2020.  

 

McGarry, Tim, Peter O’Donoghue, and Antn?io Jaime de Eira. Sampaio, eds. Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance Analysis. London: Routledge, 2013.  

 

Turner, Anthony, and Paul Comfort, eds. Advanced Strength and Conditioning?: An Evidence-Based Approach. Second edition. New York: Routledge, 2022.  

 

Jeffreys, Ian, and Jeremy Moody, eds. Strength and Conditioning for Sports Performance. Second edition. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021.  

Supplementary: 

 

Topical articles within the following journals: 

 

Journal of Applied Sport Psychology - https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/uasp20

 

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport - https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpan20

 

International Journal of Strength and Conditioning - https://journal.iusca.org/index.php/Journal

 

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching - https://journals.sagepub.com/home/spo