About Bsc (hons) Sport Performance Analysis in University of Suffolk

BSc (Hons) Sport Performance Analysis is based around providing objective feedback to athletes, team sport players and coaches, helping to develop performance, as well as the tactical and technical development of players and teams. Other specialist roles in performance analysis include player scouting and opposition analysis. The degree will first teach you the fundamental principles of the career, leading to the most advanced, research informed practice currently used in professional sport – from creating statistical data driven reports and presentations, to individual athlete, player and team performance profiles.  

Using video and data analysis, a sport performance analyst needs to tell athletes, players and coaches what actually happened during a performance, instead of relying on the memories of those athletes, players, coaches and sports science staff alone. You will learn to work with world-leading technologies during the course, which are used extensively in the football Premier League, international and Premiership Rugby union, other leading European sport leagues, as well as other global professional sports.

Career opportunities

Your employability is boosted due to our blend of education, research-based learning and applied experience of elite performance analysis techniques.

Our current students benefit from placement opportunities with football clubs in the Premier League and Football League, within the Netball Super League, Olympic Sports and other local organisations. Graduates have also secured fantastic careers, with former students currently working at Arsenal FC, Manchester United FC, Ipswich Town and Minnesota United FC.

Although you focus on performance analysis during the course, your skills are transferrable, opening up a whole spectrum of opportunities across the sport and exercise sciences. Your exposure to elite performance analysis, coaching and cutting-edge research environments will ensure you and your CV are ‘career ready’.

Entry requirements

• IELTS 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in all components) where English is not the students' first language.