Coach Pathway
Whether you’re a first-time volunteer coach, or an experienced, licenced coach, your value to soccer’s growth and development is vital. BC Soccer is here to support your journey no matter what your short, or long-term aspirations are. Your leadership creates the soccer environment that keeps players laughing, growing, and wanting to come back next year. The rewards of your role transcend winning and losing; they shape people’s lives through fostering team environments, empowering growth, and problem-solving opportunities, not to mention, physical literacy and mental well-being.
Coaching Pathway
Soccer organizations are very proactive to ensure that all volunteer coaches are offered the opportunity to become trained through the Canada Soccer Grassroots Coach Education coaching courses, which BC Soccer facilitates. As you gain more experience as a coach and seek further challenges, coaching courses are designed to steer you in your area of interest, whether that’s coaching children aged 6-13, youth aged 14-18, or adults aged 19+.
There are further opportunities through the Canada Soccer Advanced Coach Education Program for those wishing to explore the Children’s Development Stream, the Youth Development Stream or the Senior Performance Stream. These courses are for coaches who are pursuing the highest levels of coach education and may be working with BCSPL clubs, League1 BC clubs, University and Professional clubs, and even National teams.
Below is an illustration of the coaching course pathway:
More Coaching Resources
BC Soccer’s aim is to promote soccer environments that are inclusive, safe, enjoyable and meet the needs of player development for all participants. To achieve this BC Soccer’s Technical Resources, provide an example of good practice that BC Organizations can fully integrate into their programming or use as a guideline to assist in the on-going development of their own documentation and program delivery.
Learning Facilitator Program
The Learning Facilitator Program is a service to BC Soccer's Member Organizations and its Affiliate Clubs to help train their coaches at the Grassroots level according to the minimum coaching requirement in BC Soccer's Rules & Regulations.
Goalkeeping Diploma
This workshop introduces coaches to the art of goalkeeping. The contents of this workshop are designed to give coaches basic knowledge with regards to the techniques and skills involved in being an effective goalkeeper.
Technical Director Diploma
The Technical Director Diploma workshop is focused on supporting individuals who are responsible for providing technical leadership for their soccer organization.
Courses in your area
Here you’ll find a list of coaching courses available in your area.
Female Course Options
You’ll find fully female course options and BC Soccer’s Female Coaching Framework information here.
BC Soccer Course Host Manual
If you are a BC Soccer member organization, find out how to host a Grassroots Coach Education on-field practical workshop for your coaches.
