ECB Foundation Coach

Coaching is an enormously rewarding, challenging and crucial role in cricket. The ECB Foundation Coach course is a new coach development programme and qualification that has been created to help more people take their first steps into coaching cricket.

A blend of e-learning and face-to-face modules led by ECB Coach Developers will explore what coaching looks like, the impact an ECB Foundation Coach can have, the skills they can help players to develop and how they can learn from their experiences. By committing to this programme and becoming a qualified coach they will become an important part of the ECB’s coaching family that works together to help players improve, have fun, be safe and learn at every stage of their development.

A full list of upcoming courses is provided at the bottom of this page.

Programme Outcomes

• This programme has been designed to give learners the knowledge, skills and confidence to coach cricket sessions that are active, purposeful, enjoyable and safe.
• An ECB Foundation Coach will be qualified to lead coaching sessions independently and without supervision.
• It is now the entry level qualification required to coach cricket. 

Content

• Role of an ECB Foundation Coach
• What does coaching look like?
• iCoachCricket
• Coaching, fielding, bowling and batting
• Foundation principles – fielding, bowling and batting
• The coaching tools
• Purposeful sessions
• Active sessions
• Safe sessions
• Enjoyable sessions
• Differentiation

Who is it for?

Anyone aged 17 and over wishing to become qualified to coach cricket, inspire players and make a difference to the game.

 Commitment

• 4 face-to-face modules lasting 3 hours each
• 7 bitesize e-learning modules lasting 10-15 minutes each
• 3 observed coaching opportunities during face-to-face modules and an online multiple choice questionnaire
• Cost £200

Pre-requisites for certification

• Although a candidate can be 17 years of age to commence and complete the course, they must be 18 years of age to achieve the qualification and become certified
• A valid safeguarding qualification is a course pre-requisite, requiring completion of the Safeguarding Level 2 online course. Access to this is provided by the ECB E-learning Team as part of the course content.
• Have a valid ECB DBS

Please note that missing any of the face-to-face modules may result in a candidate not being able to complete the course and losing their course fee.

The minimum number of Learners required for a course to go ahead is 12.

Upcoming courses    

For more information, please contact Karen Smith:

Karen Smith

Business Operations Officer

• [email protected]
• 07593 583945