Coaching Opportunities

New Zealand Football qualifications will help coaches to get knowledge and understanding of player development. It's aim is to help coaches reach their full potential. In many countries coaches need certain qualifications to be able to coach at different levels.

There is a distinct difference between coaching Juniors, Youth and Seniors. Even when coaching different ages within the Juniors coaches will need a specific skill set to be able to cope with the ever changing demands.

Underneath follows an outline of the general levels at which coaches can apply their trade:

Junior

• Club Level  (e.g. 10th grade Old Boys team playing local competition in Invercargill).
• Representative Level (e.g. 11th grade North Otago team playing within the federation ending up with the South Island Tournament).

Youth

• Club/School Level (e.g. Youth grade team for Grants Braes in local Dunedin Saturday competition or 1st XI John McGlashan team in Dunedin Wednesday secondary schools boys competition).
• Representative Level
• National/Federation Level (e.g. U14 Footballsouth Girls Team playing against all other federations in New Zealand)
• International Level (e.g. U15 New Zealand Boys playing against other countries)

Senior

• Club Level with different grades in local competition (e.g. Division 2 teams).
• Footballsouth Premier League playing throughout our federation (e.g. Southland Spirit team).
• National Level in the New Zealand Football Championship (e.g. Otago United franchise in Dunedin).
• International/professional club (e.g. the Wellington Phoenix playing in the Australian "A" league).
• International Level  (e.g. New Zealand national men's team the All Whites playing against other countries).