Certificate in Football Tactical Analyst
The Certificate in Football Tactical Analyst is approached in light of the recent growth in the number of analysts and the size and importance of analytic departments within professional football clubs. Given the demand for analysts with a professional background, it is important to detail and prioritize each of the functions they carry out or may be expected to carry out in the near future. In an increasingly competitive environment, the huge growth in the economic resources of professional football clubs has given analysts the opportunity to work in a more thorough, organized way and to contribute to improving team performance. This in turn has firmly placed this professional job profile within a growing labor market. At the end of this course, you will know how to establish an analytics department within a specific football club; you will be familiar with the technological tools at your disposal and will be capable of using a holistic analysis process (self-analysis, analysis of rivals, training, matches, competitions, etc.).
- Category: Football Coaching
- Level: beginner
- Duration: 4 months
- Price: 675 EUR
Official courses from Barça Innovation Hub, FC Barcelona's educational arm, with experts who have worked inside the club. Earn an accredited certificate issued by the hub, available across the Middle East and North Africa through Champions Hub, its official partner for the fifth year.
What you will learn
- Contribute towards correctly implementing a football club’s analytics department and familiarize yourself with the current technological tools handled by analysts.
- Use analysis to organize and improve knowledge of your team and its performance.
- Improve data collection on rival teams and the use of this information during training.
- Adopt a method of analysis to employ during competition.
Course content
- Module 1: Implantation and Technological Processes of Analysis
- Analysis department
- Metric analysis of data
- Audiovisual processes
- Tagging as a way to analyze matches
- Module 2: Team Analysis (Self-Analysis)
- Microplane Analysis
- Mesoplane Analysis
- Macroplane Analysis
- Training analysis
- Module 3: Opponent Team Analysis
- Individual analysis of the opponent
- Collective analysis of the opponent
- Impact of opponent analysis on training
- Communicating opponent analysis to the player during the microcycle
- Module 4: Match Analysis
- Pre-match
- Analysis during a match
- Post-match analysis
- Final evaluation