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OFFICIAL TECHNICAL PARTNER OF THE LEAGUE MANAGERS ASSOCIATION

Coach education powered by the world's best.

Earn a recognised coaching qualification built and taught by Ben Bartlett, develop your methodology, and explore the coaching dossiers of Premier League, EFL and WSL managers.

Elite Soccer
Session Library

Exclusive access to training sessions contributed by active Premier League, EFL and WSL managers, complete with diagrams, rationale and set-up notes you can use for ideas and inspiration at your next session.

  • The world's leading source of session ideas
  • New sessions every month from top-flight managers
  • The Elite Soccer magazine, with a new issue every month
  • Exclusive insights direct from Premier League managers
  • Searchable library of 1,000+ sessions organised by theme and position
  • More than 600 of the biggest names in coaching
  • Established in 2010, with a history of excellence

Elite Soccer
Coaching Award

The world's leading independent coaching qualification for ambitious coaches. Develop and document your coaching philosophy, build a personal dossier and coach with clarity and confidence.

Everything in the Session Library plus

  • Designed and delivered by Ben Bartlett
  • Rigorous 12-week online course
  • Build your personal coaching dossier to evidence your philosophy and development
  • Live Zoom Q&As with Premier League managers
  • Join a global network of ambitious coaches
  • Invest in your career and your craft

Built by coaches,
for coaches

Elite Soccer was founded on a simple but radical idea: give ambitious coaches direct access to the thinking of managers at the very top of the game. Not commentary from the outside, but the managers themselves writing about what they do and why.

In 2010 we formed a formal partnership with the League Managers Association, the professional body representing every manager in English professional football. That relationship has sustained for 15 years because we represent coaching at the highest level. No other platform has that endorsement.

Over fifteen years, our mission has expanded into a platform that develops coaches at every level: through inspiration, through qualification, and through specialist short courses that push the boundary of how the game is understood and taught.

League Managers Association

Official Technical Partner of the League Managers' Association since 2010

A selection of Elite Soccer magazine covers

Elite Soccer
Magazine

Every issue takes you inside the thinking of the game's leading figures. Managers and coaches from the Premier League, EFL, WSL and beyond explain how they coach, why they coach that way and what they're working on right now, in their own words.

  • A new issue every month, straight to your inbox
  • Sessions written by the managers themselves, with diagrams and rationale
  • In-depth interviews on philosophy, game models and player development
  • Deep insights into how the best prepare, plan and review
  • Full back catalogue of 180+ issues, available from day one
  • Published in partnership with the League Managers Association

Included with both the Session Library and the Coaching Award.

Give your entire
staff an edge

Club-wide access gives your club, team or department a shared resource of world-class session ideas and professional development. One subscription, one invoice, one team raising its standards together.

  • Shared CPD experience
  • An alternative to limited-availability UEFA licences
  • Discounted rates for teams of three or more
  • Dedicated account support and onboarding
  • Advanced customisation available POA

"Having everyone working from the same reference pool has improved our shared language and our session quality across the board."

James Barlow, Portsmouth FC Academy

Interviews and articles

Conversations with head coaches and features from experienced academy coaches. Your first article is on us.