LEVEL 1 – Build Your Foundations
Learn how to observe, identify, and assess key technical aspects of player performance. Develop the core skills used by scouts to analyse players in real match situations.

LEVEL 2 – Develop Advanced Analysis
Move beyond the basics and begin to understand the why behind player actions. Analyse communication, movement, space creation, and decision-making with greater depth and structure.

LEVEL 3 – Apply Professional-Level Scouting
Refine your analysis to a professional standard. Assess passing, possession play, and performance data while producing detailed, evidence-based player assessment reports.

LEVEL 4 - Our advanced level course which focused on assessing advanced passing techniques, player creativity and end produce, and how to assess ball protecting techniques in real game situations.

The AFCAS Football Fundamentals & Talent ID Program provides a comprehensive and progressive education in modern player assessment, taking you from the fundamentals of scouting through to advanced technical and tactical analysis.

Across the four levels, you will learn how to identify and evaluate a player's physical profile, technical ability, tactical understanding, decision-making and overall performance within different match contexts.

The program explores key technical areas in depth, including receiving techniques, awareness, creating space, communication, passing, turning with the ball,, heading, and creativity.

Our courses integrate a wide range of video examples demonstrating real match situations, showcasing both effective execution and areas for improvement.

These clips act as powerful teaching tools, allowing learners to see how the concepts covered in theory are applied in real-game scenarios.

By observing these moments in detail, you will develop a deeper understanding of player performance and enhance your ability to analyse the game with clarity and precision.

This Technical Scouting program includes 300+ interactive multiple-choice video quizzes designed to test and develop your observation skills.

Each task presents short clips from real match situations, where you will be required to analyse player actions, identify both effective and ineffective play, and assess key areas of performance.

Throughout the program, you will complete unique, interactive decision-making multiple-choice quizzes designed to challenge your understanding of the game.

These tasks present short video clips where a player is about to make a key decision or action. The video will pause at a critical moment, requiring you to assess the situation and decide what the player should do next.

You will be given multiple options and must select the most effective action. After making your choice, you will review a follow-up analysis video to determine whether your decision was correct and understand the reasoning behind it.

This process is designed to develop your ability to read the game, anticipate actions, and think like a professional scout.

These courses will give you the opportunity to assess player performance with our PLAYER PERFORMANCE VIDEO ASSESSMENT TASKS.

Player performance assessments in football refers to observing and assessing an individual player's effectiveness, contribution, and execution of skills and tasks during a match.

We have created a total of 30+ of these player video assessments that you will have to complete during the course to give you experience of assessing a player's performance, and to give you the opportunity to use the skills and techniques you have learned on the courses.

These assessments also give you the opportunity to test your development and progress.

We have introduced 'Data Analysis Tasks' to incorporate data elements that contribute to assessing player performance.

These tasks offer you the chance to generate your datasets, enhancing your player assessments beyond basic technical observations.

Recording and generating data on a player's performance can provide deeper insights into their match performance, helping answer questions about their productivity.

These courses will teach you how to effectively evaluate player performance and guide you step-by-step in compiling your own professional player assessment reports.

You will learn practical note-taking techniques used by scouts, helping you capture key details and structure your observations clearly.

As part of the learning process, you will also complete report-writing tasks, with your work reviewed and assessed to support your development.

Throughout the courses, you will find dedicated Scouting Hints & Tips sections, designed to further support and enhance your scouting journey.