WORK EXPERIENCE 2025

The ESPFA is an education and football study programme for 16–19-year-olds with an invaluable part of the course being the work experience placement our students are required to carry out across the academic year.

Students have the opportunity to gain work experience in the sporting sector they are currently studying. If they wish to pursue a different pathway upon programme completion, they can choose to experience any general working environment.

Required to completed 30 hours over the year or in a dedicated, typical working week, students can take advantage of the experiences on offer at our player pathway partner clubs in areas such as coaching, physiotherapy, business, media or teaching. Alternatively they can gain experiences in other sectors such as trades and hospitality with local businesses.

We spoke to some of our students on how their experiences went as they use the cross transferable soft skills they have gained on the study programme and apply these into the real world working environment.