MA Sports Agency

Our Distance Learning degrees are taught by the same leading industry experts who teach our on-campus degrees with teaching delivered online via our dedicated GIS Connect which can be accessed anytime making this a flexible study option that fits around your existing commitments.

Each module typically has 6 live teaching sessions for you to attend, enabling you to interact and collaborate with academics and your peers. These sessions are also recorded.

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This module is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of how agents manage athletes and coaches. This covers a wide range of topics and skills required for the field, including sponsorship, financial management, recruitment and agency skills. Students will critically understand not only about the novel business landscape in sports agency, but also ways in which to navigate and manage sports events and stakeholders in this environment. The scope of a sports agent’s remit and role will be interrogated.

This modules provides students with skills necessary for a sports agent to mentor and coach their clients. This draws upon disciplines involving life coaching, psychology and career development to provide a skillset which ensure agents are able to mentor and coach their clients in a holistic manner. The different stages of an athlete’s career will be analysed, with a view to providing agents with the sills necessary to help athletes prepare for career transitions.

This module delves into the legal principles and skills required for sports agency. This covers a wide range of topics designed to equip students with the legal knowledge and understanding to represent of athletes of different sports. The areas of law covered include contract, intellectual property and employment. This module will assist students in conducting transfers and maintaining professional relationships with athletes in accordance with integrity and relevant laws.

Leadership is a fundamental element of both sport and business operating in a dynamic global arena. On this module you will review and conceptualise different approaches to leadership from both an applied and theoretical perspective to allow you to analyse critical incidents in order to judge organisational leadership performance. You will be able to apply leadership theory to examples from industry professionals who have experience of leading teams in a sporting setting. Cross-cultural leadership underpins many of the behaviours and skills discussed within the leadership framework, alongside diversity and inclusion, strategic leadership, communication and reflection. The module allows you to take responsibility for your own leadership development and effectiveness through the development of an e-portfolio and skills audit, alongside exposure to sports leaders from the global network of partners contributing to the live case studies.

This module will advance your research and critical thinking skills, and support you in applying these to the sport industry and its associated workplace environments. This module aims to prepare you for research, reflective, and evidence-based development, important for your future career and higher study where applicable. The undertaking of an applied project will give you the opportunity to develop your problem-solving skills regarding topical issues in your area of interest, whilst also allowing you to evidence your academic ability and knowledge. By completing this project and consulting with your tutor, you will establish expertise in an applied area of interest, aiming to have real impact on the relevant industry.

This module will give you a live insight into sport business issues. You will gain a thorough practice-based understanding of project design, conduct and action. As a result, you will be able to design and manage an applied project, and show potential to contribute to academic knowledge and industry practice – making
you highly desirable for potential employers.

When working in the dynamic sports industry, it is essential to understand the wide variety of issues that are important to the business and management of sport, without neglecting the implications of our actions as managers on the wider sports population.

This module offers an engaging, informative, yet challenging introduction to some of the most pressing contemporary issues in sport. The module aims to provide you with a critical awareness of contemporary issues in sport by examining a number of topics ranging from global issues such as corruption, gambling and commercialisation, to national issues of gender, sexuality, racism and women in sport. You will develop an understanding of these issues by being empowered to formulate personal opinion underpinned by theoretical evidence in the format of assessed seminar discussions. Listening skills, alongside verbal reasoning will also be developed in order to develop critical understanding of relatively complex themes that affect both the sports industry and society as a whole.

This module provides critical insight into the operation and practice of football agency. It is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the pertinent aspects of the FIFA Football Agent Regulations. An in-depth understanding of how to represent football players in accordance with FIFA regulations will be provided. This module will help prepare students for undertaking the FIFA Football Agent exam. Ongoing support will be provided to students who do not pass the FIFA exam at the first attempt.

• Undergraduate degree - minimum 2:2 (ideally a 2:1) or international equivalent
• Applicants with a 2:2 should have some experience of studying or working in business or sports related areas.
• English language qualifications: Applicants from non-majority English speaking countries will be asked for an English qualification which tests Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing and will be asked to achieve an overall IELTS score of 6.0 (minimum of 5.5 in each section) or recognised equivalent.

Offers to applicants currently studying an undergraduate degree will be conditional on them going on to achieve the entry requirements on completion of their degree.

We welcome applications from those who do not meet the standard entry requirements but can demonstrate relevant education and/or work and/or life experience in the course subject area that will enable them to succeed on the course.

This may include those that have been out of education for some time and/or who do not have an undergraduate degree. We will assess your eligibility from the information provided in your application – in particular your personal statement - to help us decide on your eligibility for the course.

To apply for this degree, please click here and follow the instructions to complete your application via our Learner Portal.

• Application form
• Evidence of highest academic and/or professional qualifications
• Evidence of relevant experience, where required
• 500 word personal statement

Applications made through the flexible entry route may require a course leader review. The course leader will determine whether a professional reference or task is required.

These discounts are open to any GIS, UCFB, Buckinghamshire New University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and University of East London graduate who has received and accepted an offer to study at the Global Institute of Sport.

• 15% fee tuition discount on all Master's programmes

If you’d like to extend your time with us, we’re pleased to offer all GIS graduates:

• 15% fee tuition discount on all Master's programmes

We're pleased to offer all UCFB and GIS business partners 15% fee tuition discount on all Undergraduate, Master's programmes.

In some instances, optional activities provided may carry an additional cost for participants (e.g. qualifications with external certification such as FA Coaching Badges). Any additional costs will be provided to students in advance of any such sessions running.