Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a football coach can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a football coach already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Football coaches train amateur or professional football teams of either youths or adults. Football coaches develop and execute training plans and improve or maintain their players physical condition, football technique and tactical abilities. They prepare their team for competitions and choose the line-up and tactics for a game. During a game coaches may give instructions from the sidelines and are in charge of substituting players.

Also known as football manager, association football coach, football team trainer, soccer coach, football instructor, football trainer, football team coach, football team manager, football team instructor.

Technicians and associate professionals 32 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: golf instructor, 70%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
golf instructor 70% covered boxing instructor 64% covered ice-skating coach 59% covered snowboard instructor 54% covered ski instructor 51% covered football coach You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from football coach, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a football coach already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A football coach needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • football services
  • select tactics for a football match management skills
  • coach during a sports competition communication, collaboration and creativity
  • execute sports training programme communication, collaboration and creativity
  • exercise sports communication, collaboration and creativity
  • assess performance in sport events management skills
  • organise training management skills
  • plan sports instruction programme management skills
  • motivate in sports management skills
  • develop a coaching style communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a football coach does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Football coach is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a football coach’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.