SCOUTING & SQUAD PLANNING (CASv)
Starts in February 2025 – Entirely Virtual and Conducted in English
Starts in February 2025 – Entirely Virtual and Conducted in English
EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED CERTIFICATION “FOOTBALL SCOUT & SQUAD PLANNER”
Do you want to become the most important contact person for your club, association, board or coach when it comes to football transfers? Do you want to prove your nose for talents? Then take the opportunity to become a trained and recognized person with expertise in scouting and squad planning.
Scouting is the magic word behind systematic work when it comes to evaluating and categorizing players.
Thanks to the unique virtual study concept (e-learning), you can complete the modern training and further education to become a scout & squad planner while working.
TOP LECTURERS FROM THE SCOUTING INDUSTRY
TIMON PAULS
Leiter Scouting & Kaderplanung Hertha BSC
JOHANNES SPORS
Sports Director 777 Partners Football Group
DR. KARSTEN SCHUMANN
Science. Advisor to Matthias Sammer
MARTIN JEDRUSIAK-JUNG
Freelance Coach to Coach Bayer 04 Leverkusen & Sports Scientist (Dt. Sporthochschule Köln)
LARS MROSKO
former Head of Scouting & Chief Scout NLZ 1. FC Union Berlin and former Scout u.a. FC Bayern München, VfL Wolfsburg
DAVID LEHMANN
Chief Scout SV Darmstadt 98 and Sports Scientist. & UEFA A-Lizenz
TIM MATTERN
Koordination Scouting & Kaderplanung Bayer 04 Leverkusen
MATTHIAS RINGLER
Chef-Scout international FC Zürich
OUR PARTICIPANTS RATE US
Grade 1.32 Ø
Quality of the lecturers
Grade 1,26 Ø
Individual support
Grade 1.32 Ø
Learning Platform/Virtual Phase
Grade 1,30 Ø
Overall impression of the face-to-face event
OUR ADVANTAGES AT IFI
Even in professional football, soft skills, i.e. personal experience or good feeling, often predominate in the selection of players. However, well-founded arguments are the most reliable decision-making criteria for every coach and every person responsible in a football club or football association.
For this reason, in addition to the technical basics of match analysis, detailed requirement profiles and the development of an individual scouting structure are the focus of our training and further education, with which you will stand out from the competition as a scout & squad planner.
SHORT PROFILE OF THE CASv “SCOUTING & SQUAD PLANNING”
TARGET GROUP OF THE CASv “SCOUTING & SQUAD PLANNING”
The CASv is a vocational training and further education course and is aimed at employees who already work as match analysts, scouts or squad planners or would like to work in this field in the future. The content taught can also be of great benefit to professional coaches, amateur coaches, assistant coaches, club managers, sporting directors, employees of youth development centers and player consultants, as it expands their own skills in an important decision-making field.
Active football players and students with a keen interest in football who are aiming for a career as a talent scout will also benefit from the experience gained
Finding a great talent is a task in football that is becoming increasingly important as the market becomes more and more professionalized and transfer fees rise.
Prerequisites for participation in the CASv are a university entrance qualification or completed vocational training in a recognized profession that is conducive to the course as well as at least three years of professional experience that is conducive to the course, a keen interest in football and athletic training and experience in professional football. Applicants without a university entrance qualification but with a professional qualification can also be admitted to the CASv under certain conditions. In these cases, an institute certificate is issued without ECTS points instead of a CASv certificate with ECTS points. Only the place of residence of all applicants must be outside Germany. All participants will be issued an institute certificate without ECTS points. In Addition, the residence must be outside of Germany.
YOUR LEARNING CONTENTS IN THE FURTHER TRAINING AS TALENT SCOUT & MANAGEMENT PLANNER
The CASv program consist of renowned lecturers impart application-oriented knowledge for practical work in the modules.
In the three modules, each with three hours of video material, one live webinar (90 minutes) with workshop character and a virtual learning phase,
participants deal intensively with the topics of football and training theory, scouting management, talent scouting, methods of match analysis and training observation as well as scouting in practice. At the end of the certificate course, participants prepare a final presentation, which is held virtually and a final thesis.
MODULE 1: MODERN SQUAD PLANNING
MODULE 2: TOP TALENT SCOUTING
MODULE 3: HIGH LEVEL SCOUTING & RECRUITMENT
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OUR LEARNING CONCEPT:
Our unique e-learning concept offers a fully digital learning environment that allows you to learn flexibly and efficiently. On our modern e-learning platform, all the necessary learning content is clearly presented – also in the form of a large number of instructional videos. In conjunction with a live webinar per module, you also have the opportunity to interact directly with our top experts and discuss key topics in the certificate.
Due to the purely virtual concept, our certificates can be completed alongside work and are therefore compatible with sport, work and family life. The CASv thus ensures a smooth and continuous learning process and will set you apart from the competition once you have successfully completed the course.
YOUR CAREER AS A FOOTBALL SCOUT & SQUAD PLANNER: SIFTING AND SEARCHING
For many people working in football, the word scout quickly passes their lips. The term has become established. However, many people from clubs and associations still find it difficult to outline the exact job description of a scout. Even media companies, people in football journalism and football scientists do not have a uniform description of the function of a football scout.
Scouts are sometimes confused with assistant coaches, tactics coaches, match analysts, video analysts, match observers or even player agents or consultants.
In principle, the scout, who is now usually employed on a permanent basis, has the task of discovering players at other clubs who fit perfectly into their own system. These can be young talents, but also seasoned professionals. Scouts are therefore sighters and seekers.
They look for players in a very targeted manner and search for players in line with the requirements profile of their own club.
Scouts are therefore often the first to get to the talents. Their first look or their first assessment can be decisive in determining whether a transfer is ultimately made.
The roles of the special, often also on itself placed preparers and assistants takes place thereby apart from the public interest. As a rule, only insiders are familiar with the names of the scouts.
Hundreds of scouts are now active in professional football, and it is hard to imagine professional football without them in the Bundesliga and at the DFB. Their field of activity extends all over the world. The romantic ideal is that they are more often in foreign stadiums than at their own desks. And yet they still have the task of building up a functioning scouting department at their own club, maintaining databases of players, evaluating statistics and keeping up to date with analysis and video software such as Wyscout.
A club’s squad planner is becoming increasingly important in today’s world. Individual players can decide games, but it is the right team composition that is crucial to achieve lasting success. Squad planners often act as a link between the scouting department and the coaching team and should ensure that players who are signed fit into the concept of the club and the coaching team.
THESE COOPERATION PARTNERS TRUST
IN OUR EXPERTISE
By cooperating with us, our partners come into direct and personal contact with decision-makers from the soccer industry who work for us as lecturers or people with expertise.
In addition, partnerships enable contact with people who already work at clubs or associations and who are already deciding, or will soon be deciding, on their own collaborations with partners.
The early point of contact with current and future executives enables the development of new business areas. During excursions, cooperation partners can also present themselves as attractive employers.
FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
Your Contact Person
Andreas Giglberger
Head of Education and Training at the IFI
Internationales Fußball Institut
Steinheilstr. 8
85737 Ismaning