UK-Football Academy uses 3 main locations for player development. The Academy hub is set in Luton, Bedfordshire, which is 18 miles north of London and between 30-90 minutes from all major London Airports. We also have use of facilities in Belfast, Northern Ireland and Aberdeen, Scotland.
All our coaching staff hold a UEFA Coaching licence and have vast experience in Professional and Youth Football, giving you the best coaching available.
We are an independant academy and receive no outside funding in any way, we work on behalf of Professional and Semi-Professional clubs but we are not employed or funded by them. The fees we charge cover coaching, accommodation etc, however, we are a privately owned company and trade as such.
Indeed there are many scams on the internet, websites look better and better with more technology available and you can never be sure, we will be very happy to offer full tours of our facilities at your convenience, if thats not possible we can visually and verbally prove our identity, if still unresolved we would be happy for one of our business associates to get in touch with you to ease your concerns.
Please dont panic, if your course is booked and circumstances dictate that you cant make the arrival date just simply inform us, we will be happy to move you to the next availabe date, if you cant make that, a refund will be given or your place held until such a date when you can attend.
Have you remembered to complete your online registration form?
Once we recieve your full payment we quickly issue you with an invitation pack along with a full acceptance letter into the Academy giving all the details about the course you have registered for, these documents assist you with any VISA applications you have to make regarding your entry into the UK. When you have aquired your VISA you are then free to book flights to the UK. Simple.
Congtratulations, your future now begins. Once you have received your VISA and all your travel documents are in order, you can now book your flight to the UK, if you have missed your course start date, dont panic! please still make your journey, we will simply add your time on so you wont miss any of your paid weeks. Be sure to e-mail us your flight detials so we can meet and greet you at your arrival airport.
In the unlikely event that your VISA application is denied then simply forward to us the confirmation from your VISA application office and we will happily return a FULL refund to you of any fees you have paid to that date.
We do wish everyone who attends our courses does go onto a professional football career, however, no such guarantees can be made. We do not offer contracts simply because a fee has been paid but what we can assure you of is that if you possess the required standard in attitude and technichal ability we will do all we can in our power to get you playing football. A lot of hard work will make your journey a good one.
Attending UK-Football Academy is not just about preparing people for a football career, its important that you possess the essential life skills to aid you through your development and adult life. If you do not possess the aquired skills to be a footballer we do offer alternative options to either keep you in the sport or to help you with a new career, ie: We offer School and College education with help and assistance in living your life as an adult, long term students may be offered an FA coaching course to become a qualified Football Coach. Our college courses offer BTEC course studies along with NVQ & GNVQ qualifications, other academic studies such as Business, I-T are also available plus many more.
That is guaranteed!
Yes! all Residential packages include full accommodation along with meals throughout your course. We do advise that you bring with you enough money to maintain yourself while you are here, things like toiletries (deodorants etc) and everyday living expenses are not supplied by the Academy.
While you are here you will be covered by full Academy medical staff, we have on-call doctors who can quickly and professionally treat any sickness. Non EU Members Please do ensure that you bring with you standard travel insurance which will provide extra cover should anyhting happen outside the Academy.
EU Members will need to complete an E111 application form at their national health centre, its fee of charge and enables you to health care within the NHS here in the UK.
We dont want to see anyone leave our courses. If players are dismissed or they leave under their own will without due cause then we regret that no refunds are given.
We have full injury treatment facilities at the Academy and most injuries can be treated within your course, if you are unable to play due to injury your course you will recieve treatment until such a time when you are fit again If, however, you decline to be treated or willingly leave the course, unfortunatley, no refunds will be given. Players carrying injuries into the Academy will be treated, however its important that you understand that if the injury causes you to leave the Academy, no refunds are given. Please be sure to be fit and ready on your arrival.
We do everything we can to make sure that your experience with us is a happy one, of course not everyone will fit into an Academy lifestyle but, we will do everything we can to help you, the simply cure is for you to return home to your families and have quality time with them, your course will be frozen and you will be invited back (at no extra cost) when you are ready to try again. If the situation is not repaired then we will (in certain circumstances) negotiate a goodwill gesture with your family. Please note: that players released from the Academy due to not making the expected level will not be entitled to a refund.
