The Academy
Established in 2018, the Future Elite Academy offers you the opportunity to continue to play full-time football, whilst studying for a degree.
If selected, you will be coached by UEFA qualified coaches who will focus on your individual player development, preparing you to make the next step in your football career.
Our full-time training program offers you the chance to train like a professional and includes strength & conditioning, analysis & recovery sessions. You will be provided with free academy training kit and all sessions are timetabled around your academic lectures.
You will be a part of a full-time football program, including full training kit, strength & conditioning and analysis sessions which run alongside your academic studies.
Our goal is simply to ensure that you reach your maximum potential, both academically and athletically.
Academy Facilities
You will be based at one of our two academy locations in Northampton & Leicester.
Both campuses offer brand new on campus accommodation as well as off campus housing for 2nd & 3rd year students
Our academies offer world class football facilities and we share our facilities with football league clubs.
Our Northampton campus is shared with Northampton Town FC & Rushden & Diamonds, whilst we share our Leicester campus with Mansfield Town F.C.
Northampton
Leicester
Courses
The Education
We cater for all academic levels and have courses ranging from access to higher education, all the way up to masters (Msc) programmes.
Depending on your chosen course of study, you will obtain a degree from either U.E.A (University of East Anglia) or Northampton University.
You will have the opportunity to choose from any of the following degree options:
Access to
Higher Education
Northampton Campus
40 UCAS Points
(Northampton Verified)
Sports Performance & CoachingNorthampton Campus
64 UCAS Points
(Northampton Verified)
SportsTherapy
Northampton Campus
64 UCAS Points
(Northampton Verified)
Sports Science
& Coaching
Leicester Campus
72 UCAS Points
(U.E.A Verified)
Strength
& Conditioning
Northampton Campus
96 UCAS Points
(Northampton Verified)
Whether you are looking to become a P.E Teacher, Football Coach, Sports Therapist, Professional football player or something else, we will support and guide you towards the next step in your career.
Playing Opportunities
We will work with you to help you play football at a higher level.
You will represent the Future Elite Academy on Wednesdays in the BUCS (British Universities and Colleges Sports) leagues, and will compete in fixtures against academy, club and representative teams in the off-season.
All of our fixtures are filmed and used for analysis sessions, as well as to create your own personal highlight reel which can be sent to clubs.
If you aren’t quite ready for paid football, you will also have the opportunity to play step 7 football on Saturdays for Future Elite F.C
Exit Routes
Cost
At the Future Elite Academy, our focus is on you.
We want you to achieve on and off the field and when you leave us we want to ensure that you are fully prepared to start your new career. With that in mind, we do not charge any fees to join the academy other than the usual degree & accommodation fees, you get everything else for free.
You will only be required to pay for your academic fees which range between £7,500-£9,000 & your accommodation costs which range between £3,500-£4,500. All of which can be covered by student & maintenance loans
Total cost: £11,000-£13,500
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