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62.8 providing all necessary assistance to the League in connection with its on-going
monitoring and annual evaluations of the Academy and to the ISO in connection with
the ISO Audits;
62.9 ensuring that all Academy Staff undertake the Continued Professional Development
required of them by this section of the Rules;
62.10 being the line manager of the Head of Education, Head of Coaching, and Head of
Recruitment; and
62.11 liaising with the Club’s Manager as appropriate.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT RULES
Guidance
It is acknowledged that some Academy Managers may also have important roles as coaches and that the above
responsibilities may limit the time they have for coaching. As a consequence, the Academy Manager will be entitled to
delegate some of his functions to other staff at the Academy to enable him to continue to undertake coaching. In
particular, if the Academy Manager also has coaching responsibilities, Clubs may wish to give consideration to appointing
an Operations Manager, being a senior administrator who will have day-to-day responsibility for many of the executive
and operational issues of the Academy. However, it should be borne in mind that the Academy Manager will remain
ultimately responsible for all of the above matters regardless of any delegation.
63. Subject to Rule 64, each Academy Manager must hold:
63.1 an up to date UEFA A Licence; and
63.2 an FA Youth Award; and
63.3 an FA Advanced Youth Award.
Guidance
An Academy Managers’ development programme will be developed in conjunction with Clubs and will be introduced in
Season 2015/16.
Rule 63.3 will be complied with regardless of which of the age-specific specialist element of the Award the Academy
Manager holds, so long as he holds one.
64. A Club may appoint as Academy Manager a person who does not hold the qualifications set
out in Rule 63 provided that the Head of Academy Coaching:
64.1. holds these qualifications;
64.2. is tasked with overseeing the Coaching Curriculum; and
64.3. is a member of the Academy Management Team and sits on the Technical Board.
Guidance
Consideration is being given to a specific course/qualification for Academy Managers who do not hold the required
coaching qualifications. This may become mandatory for such Academy Managers. Further guidance will be given to
Clubs in due course.
65. The Academy Manager must undertake Continued Professional Development organised by
the Club. In addition, where the Academy Manager holds a qualification set out in Rule 63,
he must attend such training provided by the FA as is necessary to maintain the validity of
that qualification and at least 5 hours of in-service training to be provided by the League
every year and hold a current Basic First Aid for Sport Qualification or an equivalent or higher
qualification approved by the Board.
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