NGP helps players understand the reality of the football pathway.
We have a track record of supporting players into professional clubs, while also helping a high proportion progress into semi-professional, lower league and non-league football. The route is not limited to one level, one club, or one version of success.
Players have moved through pathways connected to Premier League, Football League, semi-professional and county league environments. Others have played overseas through our international network, while some have gone on to represent their countries from youth through to senior level.
But NGP does not promise professional contracts. This pathway is about honesty, exposure and education.
Helping players chase the game properly, understand the levels, and make informed decisions about where football can take them.
NGP supports players who want to explore football scholarship opportunities in the United States and Canada.
This route can provide access to serious football, education and life experience, but it needs to be understood properly. Scholarships are not simply handed out. They depend on playing level, academic profile, attitude, eligibility, video evidence and the needs of each college or university.
NGP helps players build this pathway without unnecessary noise around the process. We support them in understanding how to approach universities directly, how to use footage from the programme, how to present themselves properly and how to make informed decisions without spending thousands on companies that often sit between the player and the opportunity.
We have seen students access high-level scholarship offers, including a strong proportion moving onto 100% scholarships, with many others securing significant support from around 75% upwards.
For players aiming at higher-level routes, including D1 or D2 environments, academic standards matter. The better the overall profile, the stronger the opportunity.
A US scholarship can be a powerful pathway. But it is also a test of independence, maturity, autonomy and commitment.
NGP helps learners see university as a real and achievable route.
For some, higher education is already part of the plan. For others, university only becomes visible once they are inside the programme, building confidence, gaining qualifications and beginning to understand the range of opportunities available through sport.
University pathways can support players who want to continue competing while studying, learners who are moving towards careers in sport, and students who may be the first in their family to consider higher education. The route can include sport science, coaching, PE, teaching, strength and conditioning, analysis, physiotherapy, psychology, sport management, business, media and wider sport-related disciplines.
NGP supports learners through course advice, UCAS guidance, personal statements, open days, campus visits, references and progression planning. We also use university links and partner relationships to help learners understand what different institutions offer, including UK-based universities and those with overseas campuses or international opportunities.
The aim is not simply to get learners into university. It is to help them choose the right course, understand the environment and see how higher education can support their future as a player, coach, practitioner or professional within the wider sport industry.
For many, university becomes more than a destination. It becomes proof that another level is possible.
NGP helps young people understand coaching as a serious route within the game.
For some learners, coaching sits alongside playing. For others, it becomes a new pathway they discover through the programme. The transition from player to coach is not always obvious, but it can open powerful routes into professional club academies, club foundations, schools, colleges, grassroots clubs, camps, development centres and international coaching environments.
NGP supports this pathway through session planning, delivery experience, mentoring, observation, feedback, qualifications and real coaching exposure. Learners begin to understand not only how to run a session, but how to communicate, lead, manage behaviour, safeguard properly and create positive environments for others.
Some former learners have gone on to coach within NGP, partner organisations and wider football settings, turning their own experience in the game into a career supporting the next generation.
Coaching is not a fallback. It is a profession with standards, responsibility and real opportunity.
NGP helps young people understand that football is only one part of a much wider sport industry.
Not every pathway has to lead to playing or coaching. The game is supported by a broad network of careers, including PE teaching, sport science, strength and conditioning, analysis, nutrition, physiotherapy, psychology, media, management, operations, events, recruitment and scouting.
For many learners, the key is exposure. They may arrive with one idea of what sport can offer, then begin to see the range of roles that exist around performance, education, health, media and athlete support.
NGP helps learners explore these options, understand what suits them and begin to identify the right route forward. The aim is not to push everyone in the same direction, but to help each young person find a pathway that matches their strengths, interests and future ambitions.
Sport is a serious industry. NGP helps learners see where they might fit within it.
NGP supports learners who want to build careers in health, fitness and wellbeing.
This pathway can lead towards roles such as personal trainer, fitness instructor, exercise referral specialist and wellbeing coach. It is a practical route for young people who want to work with people, support physical development and turn their interest in training into a career.
NGP helps learners understand the standards, qualifications and experience needed to progress in this area. That may include practical delivery, mentoring, exposure to fitness environments, client awareness, employability skills, business basics and lifestyle coaching.
For some, health and fitness creates a route into employment. For others, it can become a self-employed pathway, building a client base, developing a service and creating their own future within the industry.
The pathway is practical, personal and career-focused.
