I Learned all about life with a football at my feet

Do you want to continue your education, play football and  study sport at the same time? If you are currently in year 11-14 or aged 15-20 and wondering what your future holds....G3A have unique opportunities that allow you to play, train and compete like a professional footballer. 

We work with professional and semi-professional football clubs to offer  young players an opportunity to develop their game and continue their full-time education through our professional and comprehensive scholarship & education programme. We combine preparation for a career in sport with academic courses appropriate to their needs and aspirations in a sporting environment. The programmes are unique to get players not only engaged into sport but with their learning as well. On the course you can either get a BTEC Sport qualification for year 11/12 students or  for the year 13/14 students can enroll onto a UNI specification style course. 

When enrolling onto the Ilkeston Town Scholarship with us the course you will undertake is a BTEC Level 2/3 Extended Diploma in Sport. This includes 9-16 hours of studying time which varies depending on grades achieved at the end of Year 11. But don't worry because throughout the week you still get 10-15 hours of training hours out on the pitch to chase your footballing aspirations. 

To be able to join the course for the Level 2 BTEC Extended Certificate you will need to have achieved 4 GCSE's at grade 3 and above including Math and English. However, if you have not achieved the needed grades in English and Math, specialist tutoring can be provided to re-sit the exams and qualify with the correct grades required for not only this course but for future career ambitions. Upon completion this qualification is worth 3 GCSE's.

To enter the course for the Level 3 BTEC, which is a National Extended Diploma in Sport you will require higher grades of 5 GCSE's at grade 4 and above throughout, once again including Math and English. Upon completion of this course this will be equivalent to 3 A-Levels and facilitates going onto further University either away from G3A or within the similar footballing environment that we now provide. 

This BTEC Course will help learners to gain an understanding of physical, practical and mental elements in the sport. The added coaching elements in this to be more hands on in a practical environment to enhance the skill set you can build going into the sporting world or in an apprenticeship capacity.

The new Ilkeston Town Scholarship have endless avenues to pursue on this course with our association with non league clubs and professional academies to  be pushed on towards once the 2 year course is complete to aim at semi-professional or professional football  that all young athletes dream of. Training on this course will have you feeling that you are a professional footballer with access to high quality coaching and state of the art training facilities.

 Failing these ventures the adventure can continue as we provide a link to a career on a USA Scholarship where first class education/degrees can be done whilst the continuation with football.

The university course offered is in association with UCS is completed over 3 years with 3 different specifications in each year for people aged 16-19 wanting to learn the industry of the sport and pursue the practical elements that are paired within this qualification. For this course there are 3 elements, 1 for each year with Year 1 being a Level 4 Higher National Certificate, Year 2 Level 5  Higher National Diploma and Year 3 BSC Hons. All information can be viewed in the UCS Qualification PDF document in the section below. 

 Do you want to be more hands on in this scholarship course? Well we can offer the work experience to find the jump into sports coaching and refereeing at grassroots level to go from being a manager of a young team to apply plus develop skills in a different nature, or go down a refereeing  route to become an official for games in our grassroots academy or further. 

Our aim in this new course is to provide multiple avenues for young aspiring footballers who not only want to continue playing full-time football but are looking into multiple careers around the sport to. On your journey with us we can continue with the development of youth footballers but keep the job/future outside of football well and truly in their thoughts and in their path.