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Open-access material in sports management, analytics and coaching — from universities, MOOC platforms and industry. Everything here can be studied at no cost; a few also award a certificate free. Links open on the provider’s site.

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📘 UGC NET Paper 2UGC NET Physical Education Paper 2 — the full syllabus, free. All ten units of the June 2019 revised syllabus: foundations and the Olympic movement, exercise physiology, kinesiology and biomechanics, sports psychology, teacher education, health, sports training, research and statistics, test and measurement, and management. Each unit ends with a 30-question test you must pass to unlock the next, then a full-paper mock and a genuine previous-year paper marked against NTA’s official answer key. 350 practice questions, every one with an explanation. No certificate is issued — only the NTA examination can certify you.

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Each one is self-paced with a certificate of its own. Lessons unlock one at a time; finish them all and a 10-question quiz opens. Score 80% to earn a QR-verifiable certificate — retake it as often as you need.

35 courses

Free10 lessons · 3h 22mIntroduction to Sports ManagementHow clubs, leagues and governing bodies are funded, run and held to account.Start free Free7 lessons · 4h 1mIntroduction to Sports MarketingSegmentation, brand equity, fan engagement and where the audience actually is.Start free Free10 lessons · 4h 5mIntroduction to Sports SponsorshipBuild inventory, value it, pitch it, activate it, and prove it worked.Start free Free8 lessons · 2h 39mIntroduction to Sports Finance and EconomicsRead a club's accounts, and understand why leagues cap what clubs may spend.Start free Free7 lessons · 2h 48mSports EntrepreneurshipFind a real problem, test it with actual customers, then build the business.Start free Free9 lessons · 1h 53mAthlete Branding and NILPersonal brand, name-image-likeness, endorsements and handling a crisis.Start free Free7 lessons · 1h 44mSports TourismWhy people travel for sport, and how a destination is actually built.Start free Free12 lessons · 7h 53mSport Management: Full Lecture CourseA complete university lecture course — the deep version of the short course.Start free Free11 lessons · 2h 22mIntroduction to Sports AnalyticsWhat analysts do, expected goals, then Excel before Python. No maths degree needed.Start free Free8 lessons · 2h 4mIntroduction to Performance AnalysisNotation, video, KPIs, opposition reports and feedback a coach will actually use.Start free Free13 lessons · 3h 46mIntroduction to Sports Science and PhysiologyEnergy systems, training principles, biomechanics, load and recovery.Start free Free13 lessons · 5h 14mIntroduction to Sports PsychologyMotivation, confidence, attention, pressure, team cohesion and burnout.Start free Free8 lessons · 1h 55mSports CoachingPhilosophy, session design, the constraints-led approach and long-term development.Start free Free8 lessons · 3h 18mSports NutritionFuel, hydration, timing and what the evidence actually says about supplements.Start free Free7 lessons · 2h 19mTalent Identification and ScoutingHow players are found and judged — and the biases that make it harder than it looks.Start free Free11 lessons · 51mIntroduction to Physical LiteracyMovement skills, confidence and motivation — the foundation of a lifelong active life.Start free Free14 lessons · 2h 33mTest and Measurement in SportThe tools, equipment and protocols used to collect real performance data.Start free Free12 lessons · 1h 42mIntroduction to AI in SportTracking, officiating, injury models and scouting — and how to judge the claims.Start free Free32 lessons · 6h 29mTableau for SportBuild the dashboards analysts are paid for — pitch maps, radars, scouting boards.Start free Free13 lessons · 3h 39mFootball Analytics with PythonFrom no code at all to analysing real matches with StatsBomb open data.Start free Free12 lessons · 3h 16mIntroduction to Event and Venue ManagementFeasibility, planning, logistics, crowd safety and honest impact evaluation.Start free Free8 lessons · 1h 10mIntroduction to Sports Facility ManagementRunning a venue — operations, maintenance, accessibility and making it pay.Start free Free7 lessons · 1h 48mIntroduction to Sports Media and BroadcastingMedia rights, the production truck, streaming, and editorial ethics.Start free Free11 lessons · 3h 53mIntroduction to Golf Course AgronomyHow a course's playing surfaces are produced — turf, soil, drainage, disease.Start free Free6 lessons · 6h 1mGolf Course Maintenance ManagementThe superintendent's job — best practice, water, budgets and safety. Advanced.Start free Free7 lessons · 2h 21mGolf Operations and EventsThe tee sheet, service, pace of play and running a tournament.Start free Free6 lessons · 2h 7mSports LawContracts, arbitration, image rights and liability. Not legal advice.Start free Free7 lessons · 2h 26mSports Governance and PolicyWho runs sport, who they answer to, and India's new governance law.Start free Free8 lessons · 2h 52mSafeguarding in SportRecognising abuse, reporting it properly, and building a club that is safe.Start free Free7 lessons · 1h 22mAnti-Doping EducationThe WADA system, the Prohibited List, testing, and supplement risk.Start free Free4 lessons · 1h 47mCommunity and Grassroots Sport DevelopmentUsing sport to change something — designed properly and measured honestly.Start free Free6 lessons · 1h 50mOlympic StudiesOlympism, IOC governance, bidding, legacy and the politics you cannot avoid.Start free Free6 lessons · 3h 4mSustainability in SportSport's real footprint, climate risk, and how to read a sustainability claim.Start free Free14 lessons · 3h 57mEsports ManagementPublishers, franchised leagues, sponsorship, broadcast and player welfare.Start free Free3 lessons · 31mCareers in the Sports IndustryWhat the jobs are, what they pay, which need a qualification, how to get hired.Start free

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17 courses

The Business of Football
Club finance, ownership and the commercial structure of the men’s and women’s game, made with the EFL Trust.
OpenLearn — The Open University · 15 hoursFree certificate
Sporting Women in the Media
How media coverage shapes women’s sport — useful grounding for sponsorship and audience-development work.
OpenLearn — The Open University · 8 hoursFree certificate
Defining Value & Success in Sport
A short executive talk on how sports properties decide what they are actually selling.
Web Summit · 18 minutes
Player Welfare in Performance & Contracts
Lawyers and administrators on where performance data sits in contract negotiation and duty of care.
Web Summit · 19 minutes
Youth Sports: The Path Forward
Programme design and access in community youth sport, with policy framing that transfers to school systems.
The Aspen Institute · 1 hour
Sports Analytics (Project Series)
Project-led series: scraping match data, building models, predicting outcomes and simulating games.
Ken Jee · 4h 30m
The Analytics Edge (15.071)
The standard undergraduate analytics course, opening with the Moneyball case. The strongest free foundation here.
MIT OpenCourseWare · 16 hours
Data Science & Sports Analytics as a Career
Career paths into the field and how analysts communicate findings to coaches and management.
freeCodeCamp.org · 2 hours
Soccermatics: Mathematics in Football
A readable introduction to expected goals, passing networks and what models can and cannot decide.
Oxford Mathematics (David Sumpter) · 43 minutes
How Deep Learning Is Changing Sports Analytics
Player tracking and computer-vision pipelines, and where they change team decision-making.
Data Science Conference · 42 minutes
NBA Analytics: Evolution & Impact
How a league went from box scores to tracking data, and what that did to competitive advantage.
Databricks · 30 minutes
Real-Time Analytics & In-Game Decisions
What coaching staff actually use on the sideline, and the latency constraints behind it.
Web Summit · 18 minutes
Synthetic Data Generation in Sports Analytics
Working around small datasets, with examples from GPS-tracking vendor StatSports.
Data Science Festival · 40 minutes
Bringing IoT to Sports Analytics
Sensor-based tracking of cricket ball trajectory and spin — rare research directly on an Indian-market sport.
USENIX · 24 minutes
Pythagorean Expectation: Predicting Who Wins
One metric explained end to end. A good first quantitative exercise for students with no stats background.
Wrath of Math · 37 minutes
Generative AI in League Operations
A league-scale case study of AI in broadcast and fan products, told from the delivery side.
AWS Events (Bundesliga) · 41 minutes
Exploring Sport Coaching & Psychology
How scientific and management thinking combine in coaching practice, built around case studies.
OpenLearn — The Open University · 24 hoursFree certificate

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