Football Studies

Liverpool Hope University is launching a new Football Studies pathway available to study from September 2010. Football has become to be seen not just as a sporting passion, but also as a privileged setting for the study of society.

This course provides students with the opportunity to examine the most popular participant and spectator sport in the world. The city of Liverpool is ideally suited for this specialisation, as it is home to two professional clubs and a well developed semi-professional and amateur football club network. Football Studies involves undertaking a specified and interdisciplinary examination of the globe’s most popular sport in England’s northwest, whilst experiencing Liverpool’s unique sporting culture and heritage by studying football in a city ideally suited for this specialisation.

There will be opportunities to study under lecturers with high quality teaching and research profiles across various sports-related disciplines, and develop football knowledge in the context of topics such as football development, coaching, governance, fandom, commercialisation, globalisation, performance analysis, physiological function, psychology and motor behaviour.

There will also be visits to stadiums, museums and academies of professional football clubs, and an international football development fieldtrip. Students will also be encouraged to take advantage of the range of Football Association courses available locally, and apply this knowledge by gaining applied summer employment in USA or Canada with one of our North American soccer coaching partners.

Career progression opportunities include football coaching, teaching, postgraduate study, sports marketing, football development, football journalism, physiotherapy, strength conditioning, football psychology, physiological support, and football match analysis.

Dr. Joel Rookwood is responsible for the delivery of this course. If you have any questions about the course, please contact him via the details below:

Liverpool Hope University,

Hope Park,

Liverpool

L16 9JD

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Tel: 0151 2912148