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Women's First Team Goal Keeper Coach
Cardiff City Football Club
Cardiff City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system.
Job Posted- 18 May 2026
Status- Zero Hours
Location- Wales
Closing date- 8 Jun 2026
Job purpose
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Cardiff City Women as a 1st Team Goalkeeper Coach.
The First Team Goalkeeper Coach is responsible for developing the goalkeeper group in alignment with the manager’s playing style, delivering tailored training and match preparation to maximise performance and consistency.
Main duties
• Plan, deliver, and evaluate goalkeeper-specific training sessions and matchday preparation in line with the club’s coaching blueprint and game model.
• Design sessions that develop the technical, tactical, physical, and psychological demands of elite goalkeeping.
• Deliver goalkeeper‑unit practices that support the manager’s philosophy and meet the individual needs of each goalkeeper.
• Contribute to individual, unit, or team meetings by providing goalkeeper‑specific insights to our goalkeeping unit.
• When necessary, support the recruitment process by assessing goalkeeper transfer targets and identifying potential signings.
• Support the recruitment process by assessing transfer targets and helping identify potential signings.
• Work collaboratively with all departments, including medical, sports science, and performance analysis, to optimise goalkeeper development and performance.
• Stay up to date with modern goalkeeping trends and continually seek opportunities to improve goalkeeper operations and practices.
• Oversee our Girls’ Academi coaches and support with their professional development, and where necessary with their session planning and delivery.
• Undertake other reasonable duties as requested by the 1st Team Manager.
Person Specification
Essential Desirable
Qualifications UEFA Goalkeeper B Licence
FAW Football Level 2
FAW (or equivalent) Emergency Aid Certificate
FAW (or equivalent) Safeguarding Certificate Working towards A or achieved UEFA Goalkeeper A Licence
Experience Experience of working within a first team football environment
Experience of working within an Academy environment
Equality Statement
Cardiff City Football Club promotes equal opportunities in employment we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Safer Recruitment Policy
Cardiff City Football Club operates a ‘safer recruitment policy’ and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appropriate reference checks and Enhanced Level Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks form a significant part of this recruitment process.
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