You can start learning at any time. By signing up and enrolling you can track your progress and earn a Statement of Participation upon completion, all for free.
This course is an introduction to essential safeguarding knowledge for football and other sports. The course explains what safeguarding is, why it is important, and how you can help reduce safeguarding risks and respond appropriately to any safeguarding concerns.
It is divided into three 30-minute sessions for you to complete at your own pace. The course explains how safeguarding is everybody’s responsibility. It’s up to us!
It is important to know that completing this education programme will not guarantee sporting environments and activities to be 100% safe for children and young people. Inappropriately designed programmes and poor operational management can put children and youth at risk of harm. We hope that by taking this course, risk of harm can be identified and reduced and that everyone can participate in sport in a safe and supportive environment, free from all forms of harassment and abuse.
If you have a concern about the content of this course you can report it by clicking on the 'Report a concern' button.
This course is free and open to all, and though you are welcome to study it without enrolling, you will need to log in to be able to complete the declarations and survey and access the content.
If you also want to take the end-of-course quiz and earn a FIFA/OU course certificate and digital badge for your learning, you will need to do the following:
1. Enrol on the course. Once you have done so, you’ll be returned to this screen.
2. Complete (a) the two declarations about your eligibility to study the course and (b) the pre-course survey below.
3. Complete the course content to the end. Ensure that every section has been completed and has a blue tick next to it. In the final section, click on the EXIT COURSE button to go to the end-of-course quiz page.
4. Score 70% or higher in the end-of-course quiz. If you don’t pass it first time, you can retake the whole quiz again as many times as you need until you do pass.
Please note: This course is for Global Football Community Learners. If you are a Nominated FIFA learner, you need to enrol on the FIFA Learner pathway.
Gain a digital badge
By studying the course you will have the opportunity to gain a digital badge – you need to click on the ‘Enrol’ button to be able to do the quizzes and earn the badge.
This course is part of a collection
This course is part of a collection of courses called FIFA Guardians™ Safeguarding in Football Award 2021. There are 5 courses in this collection so you may find other courses here that maybe of interest to you.
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Course reviews
Safeguarding course
Godfrey Muleya18 June 2026 7:25
Football Coach
William Chilufya17 June 2026 8:25
I want to learn amd understand more about safe gaurding in the youth since inwork at time with kids at the Academy
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You can start learning at any time. By signing up and enrolling you can track your progress and earn a Statement of Participation upon completion, all for free.
This course is made available under All Rights Reserved: Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
Any third-party materials featured in this course are used with permission and are not ours to give away. These materials are not subject to the Creative Commons licence. See the
terms and conditions and our FAQs. Please see the course acknowledgements for further information about copyright details.
For further information, take a look at our frequently asked questions which may give you the support you need.
