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.
Welcome to FIFA Guardians™ Promoting Wider Safeguarding Change
This course is for Global Football Community Learners and is part of the FIFA Guardians™ Safeguarding in Football Award.
This course introduces a new topic – safeguarding in the digital world – and looks forward to helping you think about how your organisation might learn from safeguarding experiences and develop a positive safeguarding culture.
The aim is to assist your organisation to keep moving forward on your safeguarding journey. The course will also reinforce your existing knowledge and help you to identify organisational strengths and weaknesses.
This course, consisting of approximately 7 hours of online learning and a quiz, can be completed at your own pace.
It is important to know that completing this education programme will not guarantee footballing environments and activities to be 100% safe. Inappropriately designed programmes and poor operational management can put people, especially 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 football 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.
If you want to earn a FIFA/Open University 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 the two declarations about your eligibility to study the course.
3. Complete the course content to the end. Ensure that all four sessions have been completed (including watching all videos to the end) and that each section of a session has a green tick next to it.
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: If you are a Nominated FIFA Learner, you need to enrol on the Nominated FIFA Learner pathway.
Finally, we want to celebrate your achievement in reaching the end of this Football Award and to recognise your learning journey so far.
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. 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
Mclean Lawrence25 November 2025 11:04
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Important course
Fani Mthethwa12 November 2025 9:26
this is very important course as we know there’s so much abuse for Women and children and discrimination around the world, I believe this will play a huge role to protect and educate sports participants.
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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 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: 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.
