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Introduction to Football Scouting

Learn how professional scouts watch players, write useful reports and work with a club’s recruitment team.

  • Beginner
  • 3 lessons
  • 45 minutes
  • Final quiz
  • Certificate

What you’ll learn

  • What a scout’s job involves at different clubs
  • How to watch a player with a clear plan
  • The four areas scouts assess
  • How to write a short, useful scouting report

About this course

This short course introduces the work of a football scout: what clubs look for, how to watch a match with purpose, and how to turn what you see into a report a recruitment team can use.

It’s ideal if you’re starting out in scouting or recruitment, or you coach and want to assess players more consistently.

Lessons

  1. The role of a scout 12 min
  2. Watching a player 15 min
  3. Writing a scouting report 18 min
  4. Final quiz 4 questions

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