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Do you live, sleep, and breathe football? Are you a force on the pitch, looking for your next challenge? Then the Women’s Football Academy is for you.
With 11 titles to date, including two National Championship titles, this squad is serious about setting new standards of sporting excellence. Here, we’re not just levelling the playing field, we’re making it our own. We’re passionate about perfect precision on the pitch, providing players like you with the training you need to reach your full potential.
The Academy is run by experienced UEFA qualified coaches, providing you with up to 9 hours of training a week. This includes technical and tactical work, strength and conditioning, analysis, physiotherapy, physical and performance-based testing, and match days.
The Academy also creates opportunities to help you develop a career in football, with a track record into the Women’s Super League, Professional Game Academies, and Scholarships to America!
Facilities
In order to play like a professional, you have to train like a professional. That’s why we’ve invested in outstanding facilities, including a:
- Full-size Astro Turf
- State-of-the-art Fitness Suite
- On-site Physio Clinic
- Large Indoor Sports Hall
- Professional VEO camera, which allows every player to analyse their performance
- Indoor Analysis Theatre, where you can watch opposition matches and identify training needs for future sessions
- Catapult Vests. Used by elite teams, these capture your individual data so you can track and compare your metrics against some of the top players in the world!
“All my tutors were really supportive and had good industry knowledge. Alongside my studies, I was also part of the Football Academy. I had so much fun being part of that team and made some amazing friends through it.”
Eve Jackson, Level 3 Sport & Exercise Science
Meet your coach
Dan Wilson
Football Coach
- Involved in the first every Middlesbrough College Football Academy
- 20+ years of coaching and analysis experience
- Worked with England’s partially sighted Fustal Squad
- First team analyst at Spennymoor Town FC
- Works with MFC
- Supports Redcar and Cleveland’s Middlesbrough Female District Squads
You can apply for a Sports Academy on your full-time course application form. Click here to view all our full-time courses. You can also register your interest in one of our Sports Academies by clicking here and completing the form!
We are TASS Dual Career Accredited
TASS (Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme) is an athletic support programme, which helps talented athletes to balance their sport and studies, with the goal of them being able to reach their potential in both. The programme is open to all elite athletes on any course at Middlesbrough College, not just Sports and Leisure courses.
For more information, contact the Sports Admin Team on 01642 333772 or stpsadmin@mbro.ac.uk.
Join a Sports Academy
Find out more about our Sports Academies by contacting the Sports Admin Team on 01642 333772 or stpsadmin@mbro.ac.uk.