Esports coaching courses receive CPD accreditation

Dom Sacco, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 19/05/2025

The International Federation of Esports Coaches (IFoEC) has announced its Level 1 Educator and Esports Coaching courses are now CPD certified.

CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development, a term that covers learning activities designed to boost skills in a professional’s career.

The UK-based federation said in a blog post on the IFoEC website: “In the realm of esports, and contrary to sports like football or athletics, research has shown that coaches haven’t had much of a structured career path to follow.

“CPD can be a useful milestone on a learning pathway, providing coaches with tangible markers for personal and professional growth. At IFoEC, we recently celebrated receiving CPD certification for our Level 1 Esports Coaching and Educator Level 1 courses, marking a fairly pivotal moment in the recognition of esports coaching as a professional discipline.

The CPD Certification Service was established in 1996, and says it’s ‘the world’s leading and largest independent CPD accreditation institution operating across all industry sectors’.

The service provides support, advice and recognised CPD accreditation for professional bodies and academic institutes.

Others accredited by the CPD include the FA, Financial Times, Mitsubishi, RAF, KCL, Cambridge and Oxford universities and more.

Matthew Watson, Director of Learning & Development at the International Federation of Esports Coaches, told Esports News UK: “I’m delighted that our Level 1 courses have received CPD certification, and very grateful to the IFoEC team for everyone’s hard work getting them to this stage.

“We’ve worked hard to listen to coaches over the years and conduct much-needed research to inform our work, and I’d like to think these courses reflect the needs of coaches and the industry in general.

“There’s much more to be done to support coaches of course, but we’re getting there.”

Matthew also said that the inaugural Esports Coaching & Performance Summit went well a few months ago, with many people learning, sharing and connecting, and that it will return for 2024.

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Dom Sacco, Senior Editor

Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He has almost two decades of experience in journalism, and left Esports News UK in June 2025. As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late '80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He also previously worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation.

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