This 3-course mastery bundle in Soccer Nutrition gives you the complete set of methods, advanced knowledge and cutting-edge nutritional science used by elite soccer nutritionists to achieve peak player performance.
16 Hours
Start your journey to becoming a soccer nutrition expert with the Foundation Certificate in Soccer Nutrition.
This introductory course covers the essential principles of fueling players for peak performance, optimal recovery, and injury prevention.
Gain a deep understanding of soccer physiology, the role of macronutrients and micronutrients, hydration strategies, and the critical importance of nutrition in female soccer players.
Learn to design nutrition plans that support training, match preparation, and recovery while enhancing players’ resilience and maximizing their intensity on the field.
Equip yourself with the fundamental knowledge to help players perform at their best and stay injury-free – an essential first step toward mastering soccer nutrition.
22 Hours
Take your soccer nutrition expertise to the next level with the Intermediate Certificate in Soccer Nutrition.
Building on the foundational knowledge of player fueling, this course dives deeper into advanced concepts and best practices used by elite clubs to optimize performance, preparation, and recovery. Learn how to design and implement comprehensive nutrition plans that are tailored to the unique demands of soccer players at all levels.
Covering key topics such as nutritional periodisation, soccer-specific fueling strategies, and dietary considerations for vegetarian and vegan athletes, this course equips you with the advanced skills to support youth players, monitor dietary progress, and enhance player performance on and off the field.
Gain the expertise to deliver high-impact, personalized nutrition strategies that help players excel at their peak.
25 Hours
Take your soccer nutrition expertise to the highest level with the Masters Certificate in Soccer Nutrition.
This masters course is designed for soccer coaches and aspiring professionals who want to fully understand the crucial link between nutrition and athletic performance. With a focus on individualization, recovery, and elite-level strategies, this course delves into the complex science behind fueling soccer players for peak performance, from youth to adults.
Learn about the endocrinology of soccer, the impact of intermittent fasting, how to provide individualized nutritional support, post-match recovery strategies, nutritional optimization for extreme conditions, and advanced methods for enhancing performance at the elite level.
This Masters course will equip you with the knowledge to implement cutting-edge nutrition strategies that maximize player performance, resilience, and recovery.
Includes the following foundational modules delivered by elite high performance coaches:
Delivered by Sam McHaffie
In this lecture you’ll explore energy demands of soccer players understanding the equation of energy expenditure to energy consumption. Body composition testing and manipulation in conjunction with energy balance, food and the basics of soccer physiology.
Delivered by Dr Eirini Manthou
Macro and micronutrients are explored in detail, their sources, structure, function and availability. Additionally micronutrients, vitamins and minerals and their role in in the dietary plan are presented. The development of dietary plans and how to positively affect your players through nutritional principles is detailed.
Delivered by Matthew Jones
Health and wellness are vital in this lecture we examine the health and food foundations, deep diving further into vitamins and minerals as well as practical recommendations for the use of food types and plant derived nutrients.
Delivered by Virginia Santesteban
In this lecture we consider the thermoregulation in physical demands of soccer and the influence of hydration status. Hydration is so important to optimal performance we’ll review the consequences of dehydration and hyperhydration. Specific beverages and examples for rehydration are detailed.
Delivered by Dr. Adam Owen
In this lecture we’ll look at the soccer player diet and the importance of macronutrients, with additional emphasis on the glycemic index and carbohydrate response. This knowledge is important in fuelling strategies for maximum performance which will be provided in this lecture.
Delivered by Faisal Alshawa
Examine soccer specific injury characteristics and how nutrition for injury can play a important role. Nutrition can have positive and negative effects on inflammation in the recovery process so in this lecture we’ll discuss and examine this in detail. Muscle loss and the building process are covered in this lecture too.
Delivered by Yasemin Batmaca
In this lecture we examine nutrition for female soccer players and the physiological challenges. Specificity in terms of macro and micro nutrients, together with dietary supplements for the female player to ensure peak performance is detailed.
Delivered by Matthew Jones
Food first, supplements second… we’ll explore the definition and application of supplements and their importance. We’ll provide a theoretical framework to help you with your decision making and safe application of supplemental interventions.
Includes the following intermediate modules delivered by elite high performance coaches:
Delivered by Dr. Lloyd Parker
In Module 1, you will gain an understanding of what is required to be a sports nutritionist in an elite soccer environment. You will know how to build trust amongst staff and support staff, how to make some quick easy wins in an elite soccer club through nutrition and you’ll be capable of using a behavioural change model to positively enhance players behaviour towards nutrition.
Delivered by Jack Christopher MSc
In Module 2, you will understand the key challenges along the LTAD pathway and how to develop their own nutritional support structure, understand what the end goal involves, and be able to work backwards to maximise development and be able to think critically about nutritional support during growth and maturation.
Delivered by Helen Bauhaus
In Module 3, you will gain an understanding of the structure and forms of carbohydrates, the basics of the carbohydrate metabolism, the role of carbohydrates in soccer, the recommendations for carbohydrates intake in soccer and you will be able to identify risks of a low carbohydrate diet in soccer.
Delivered by Dr. Liam Anderson
In Module 4, you will gain an understanding of the seasonal overview of training & match-play, metabolic demands & carbohydrate requirements of soccer, meal types & nutritional strategies used in elite professional soccer, fuel for the work performed – periodisation approach and nutritional periodisation in elite professional soccer.
Delivered by Helen Bauhaus
In Module 5, you will be exposed to a number of topics, including the structure of fat molecules, the basics of the regulation of fat metabolism, the capacity of energy storages and substrate utilization, classification of fatty acids and recommendations for the intake of fat in soccer.
Delivered by Margarita Posada MSc
In Module 6, you will be exposed to the nutritional assessment of soccer players, 3-key nutritional pillars: Nutrition, Hydration, Supplementation, nutritional strategies for seasonal phases (pre-season, training days and match day) and nutritional focus (training vs. competition).
Delivered by Dr. Eirini Manthou
In Module 7, you will be exposed to the role of protein & amino acids in the human body, skeletal muscle amino acid (AA) metabolism a) fasting b) absorption & c) exercise, protein energy requirements in soccer, protein & AA supplementation for soccer performance & outcomes, protein & AA supplementation: Immunity & health-related effects in sport.
Delivered by Prof. Nikos Koundarakis
In Module 8, you will understand the major concerns with vegan & vegetarianism diets for athletes, be able to highlight and positively influence concerns & specific considerations, understand macro & micronutrient needs & food types key to vegan & vegetarianism athletes
Delivered by Dr. Liam Anderson
In Module 9, you will understand the timing and even distribution of protein intake & its influence in modulating protein synthesis, have an overview of a working, practical process of nutritional strategies in elite professional soccer and understand the term & employ a ‘fuel for the work performed’ process in professional soccer.
Delivered by Prof. Nikos Koundarakis
In Module 10, you will fully understand the nutritional periodisation concept, understand caloric needs and player menu ideas, be capable of periodising macronutrients within the soccer players meal plan, understand the concerns for periodisation when dealing with vegan or vegetarian players.
Includes the following modules delivered by elite high performance coaches:
Delivered by Matthew Jones
In this module, you will learn about the connection between physical performance and nutrition, with a focus on soccer-specific dietary needs. The lesson covers nutritional periodization strategies to optimize performance, alongside methods for conducting nutritional analysis and interventions. You’ll also gain insights into the importance of educating those responsible for players’ nutritional strategies.
Delivered by Diogo Ferreira
In this module, you will learn about the physical and nutritional evolution in soccer players, including maturational changes in height, weight, and body composition. You’ll examine the varying energy demands throughout player development and understand how macronutrients and micronutrients play a role in each stage. Additionally, the course will equip you with strategies for nutritional education tailored for youth soccer, preparing you to support the growth and performance of developing athletes.
Delivered by Professor Karim Chamari
In this module, you will learn about the Ramadan period’s distinct characteristics and its potential effects on athletes’ daily lives and performance. You’ll gain insight into how fasting can influence soccer performance metrics and evaluate its specific impact on match performance. Additionally, the course will provide strategies to assist fasting soccer players in effectively handling training and competition challenges during Ramadan, ensuring they maintain peak condition and performance.
Delivered by Dr. Eirini Manthou
In this module, you will learn about the critical role of nutrition in the recovery phase of athletic training and competition. You’ll identify key nutrients essential for fueling, repair, and hydration, and understand the process of glycogen resynthesis. Additionally, you’ll explore effective strategies to manage your recovery through proper nutrition and hydration. By the end of this lesson, you will be able to apply recommended practices to optimize recovery, ensuring sustained energy availability and overall athletic performance.
Delivered by Dr. Mayur Ranchordas
In this module, you will learn how to effectively provide individualized nutrition support in a team setting. We’ll explore the challenges of tailoring nutritional advice to each athlete’s unique needs while maintaining team-wide strategies. You’ll critically evaluate the tools and methodologies available to practitioners, learn to translate scientific insights into practical applications, and develop skills to offer personalized nutritional guidance based on individual data. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped to balance individual preferences and performance goals with team objectives.
Delivered by Professor Nikos Koundourakis
In this module, you will learn about the science of endocrinology in the context of exercise, emphasizing its role in soccer. You’ll explore how the endocrine system influences exercise performance and understand the relationship between performance parameters and basal hormone levels. The module will guide you through the practical application of these hormonal effects and introduce you to hormonal-related training periodization, enabling you to apply this knowledge to enhance athletic performance.
Delivered by Dr Eirini Manthou
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In this module, you will learn to identify key macronutrients vital for fuelling athletes in training and competitions. You’ll understand glycogen’s critical role in exercise capacity and delve into carbohydrate optimization for peak performance. Further, you will familiarize yourself with weekly macronutrient intake recommendations to align with varied training intensities and schedules, ensuring optimal nutrition strategies are met for athlete preparation and recovery.
Delivered by Beatrice Boullosa
In this module, you will learn the essentials of nutrition and hydration in soccer, specifically designed to optimize performance under extreme conditions. Explore tailored nutritional strategies for hot, cold, and high-altitude environments, and understand the critical importance of hydration for maintaining optimal health in these conditions. You’ll also examine how weight changes in cold environments and iron intake at high altitudes can impact player performance, and develop strategies to prevent hypoxia in high-altitude scenarios. By the end, you’ll be equipped to apply these insights to enhance soccer performance in any environment.
Delivered by Prof. Nikos Koundarakis
In this module, you will learn the intricate relationship between endocrinology and soccer performance. We will explore soccer-specific hormonal processes and their impacts on player conditioning. You’ll examine how various training activities, including small-sided games, affect the endocrine system and understand the scientific foundations of designing soccer-specific microcycles. By the end of this module, you will be able to apply hormonal studies to enhance training strategies, assess physiological responses to soccer conditioning, and integrate these insights into effective player development and performance planning.
Delivered by Dr. Eirini ManthouDelivered by Prof. Nikos Koundarakis
In this module, you will learn about the critical interplay between nutrition and recovery adaptation in elite soccer. We’ll explore the science of periodized nutrition planning and its impact on training cycles to optimize athlete performance. You’ll examine training-nutrition periodization tailored specifically for soccer, understand methods for nutritional optimization to enhance adaptation, and learn to implement nutritional guidelines that promote adaptation in training. By the end of this course, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of how to align dietary strategies with the rigorous demands of elite soccer training phases.
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This certified 3-course bundle enables you to gain mastery in the vital areas of soccer nutrition while making a substantial saving of over buying the courses individually.
This nutrition course bundle is ideal for:
1. Soccer Coaches – Whether you’re coaching youth, amateur, or elite-level players, these courses will deepen your understanding of soccer-specific nutrition and give you the tools to optimize your players’ performance, recovery, and overall health.
2. Aspiring Soccer Nutritionists – If you’re looking to specialize in soccer nutrition, this bundle provides a comprehensive progression from foundational knowledge to advanced, elite-level strategies.
3. Sports Scientists & Trainers – Professionals in sports science and physical training who want to enhance their practice by incorporating tailored nutrition strategies into their training regimens.
4. Athletes – Players themselves who want to take their nutrition to the next level, understand the impact of food on performance, and improve their recovery techniques.
5. Fitness & Wellness Professionals – Those working with athletes or active individuals in any capacity who want to deepen their understanding of the critical role nutrition plays in athletic performance.
6. Team Support Staff – Individuals responsible for player health and performance, including fitness coaches, physiotherapists, and medical professionals who want to integrate nutrition into their support practices.
This bundle is perfect for anyone serious about mastering soccer nutrition and wanting to deliver high-impact, results-driven strategies for players at any level.
Yes. While this course does cover advanced concepts, the Foundation Certificate in Soccer Nutrition is designed to be accessible for individuals without a formal background in nutrition. We start with the essentials, explaining the key principles of soccer nutrition in clear, practical terms, and gradually build up to more complex topics.
Whether you’re a coach, athlete, or sports professional looking to enhance your knowledge, we ensure that all the material is explained in a way that’s easy to understand, even for beginners. By the end of the course, you’ll have a solid foundation in the critical areas of nutrition that impact soccer performance and recovery – giving you the confidence to apply what you’ve learned to real-world situations.
As you progress through the Intermediate and Masters courses, your understanding will deepen, helping you develop more specialized skills that are beneficial at both amateur and elite levels of play.
This is an online, self-paced course bundle, so you can complete the courses at your own pace and fit it around your schedule. The duration will vary depending on how much time you can dedicate each week, but most students typically complete the courses within a few weeks to a couple of months.
Since you’re in control of your learning pace, you can take as much or as little time as you need to absorb the material, review modules, and implement what you’re learning. Whether you’re balancing coaching, playing, or other commitments, this course is designed to fit around your life.
ISSPF courses are not only recommended by universities and federations around the world, but they are delivered by some of the leading practitioners in the game which will provide some cutting edge methods and industry overview on dealing with specific aspects of performance coaching and development largely including physical training in a team sport environment. ISSPF are working at accrediting all their courses through academic and footballing institutes in order to provide additional academic currency to the learner.
“This is by far the most innovative style of learning that I’ve seen in this digital era. The breadth of topics covered, combined with the level of detail and insights makes this a must learning environment for any coach who is working or wants to get into the game and progress to the highest levels.”
Manchester Utd, Middlesborough, FC Twente, Wolfsburg, Nottingham Forest, Derby County, England
“ISSPF have managed to provide our soccer coaching staff within our college team with a 1st class opportunity to learn & apply some key performance coaching aspects. The opportunity to personally develop & track the staff’s progress through their assisted e-learning process is very impressive. I highly recommend the content as a must for all individuals tasked with the development of soccer players across all levels of the game.”
“Working with ISSPF as an educational partner has allowed us here at the Football Association the chance to provide CPD and continue to educate our coaches across a wide range of learning levels from our UEFA foundation levels through our UEFA Professional Licence. Offering our candidates, the chance to use both the ISSPF platform & specific soccer courses, is a huge advantage to us as an education provided within the game”
“An experienced director with a demonstrated history of working in the soccer industry & having developed across a range of sports psychology, match analysis, player development, and sports management – I feel the opportunity to integrate the e-learning facility available from ISSPF into as a federation, club or individual self-development level is of huge benefit. As a FIFA & CONCACAF Instructor & Director of Football I have rarely seen an educational tool as good as this to positively influence individuals across a range of key soccer topics.”
“Using the ISSPF learning facility has opened my eyes to the detail and incredible knowledge provided from an elite faculty of elite coach developers and soccer science educators. As an individual who continually wants to progress my coaching pathway, I think this might be the best solution to increase my awareness of all elements of the game. The large amount of content and lectures available has already, and will continue to improve me. Gaining the Foundation Certificate in Soccer Science & Performance was extremely to me.”
Sports science, without question is the biggest, most important change in my lifetime. It has moved the game onto another level that maybe we never dreamt of all those years ago. Sports science has brought a whole new dimension to the game.”
Aberdeen, Manchester United
“Working as both Assistant Manager with elite players of our national team, I have been able to directly take a lot of content and thought provoking ideas from the content on view within ISSPF and use them to the benefit of our national players. Furthermore, I am delighted to say that we are now integrating the ISSPF online courses into our coach development program to uplift the whole coaching education aspects of our nation.”
“As the game develops within the professional women’s game & also filters down within the girl’s academy programs across the world, we are proud to be at the forefront of driving the developmental aspects of the game in this area. To be able to link as an educational partnership with ISSPF is a huge part of our federation soccer development strategy, and as we can now offer a range of online content, certification qualifications and courses from a range of leading professionals – we have already seen a direct enhancement across our coaching content and performance department delivery.”
As a fitness coach and sport scientist working at the elite level of the female game, I feel that ISSPF and their integration of both applied and academic quality is something that will be of huge importance for people within our industry. ISSPF have manage to accumulate a faculty of leaders across soccer science, medical & coaching science that will enable them to educate people from a very insightful and practitioning way.
“The layers of content within ISSPF is in a league of it’s on when considering CPD options for coaches of all levels. Having explored many avenues through my own coaching journey, the detail embedded in the courses really lends itself to closing the gap between the integrated knowledge across the fields of Sports Science and the actual application of the skills on the field. Being able to learn from many experts, across a global faculty, affords me the ability to step into their professional world and soak in the abundant knowledge they have, all in my own time. ”
“ISSPF have been able to seamlessly provide all individuals with an interest in team sports and specifically soccer with the chance to learn from some of the best people in their key research areas. Developing throughout my career as a fitness & conditioning expert and applying the scientific principles of training at the elite level of the soccer, I feel being able to use the e-learning strategy within ISSPF challenges and adds further credibility to my working practices. I highly recommend individuals from all learning levels to tap into the fantastic resource available here. ”
“Never before have I seen a unique set of soccer specific performance & coaching specialists under one banner and available 24 hours a day 7 days a week to learn within the comfort of my own home. Being part of the educational partnership program with ISSPF has opened up a new & time efficient way for both myself as Technical Director, and my club coaching and fitness staff to up skill and develop as coaches.”
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