Cricket Performance Management - BSc (Hons) Degree

This degree can be studied as a three-year full-time degree or a four-year full-time degree that includes a year of foundational study.

We offer two foundation year routes for our undergraduate sport degrees; each delivered at a different campus.

You can choose to study the Sport Foundation Year at our Cyncoed Campus, or the Management Foundation Year at our Llandaff Campus, depending on your interests and preferred location.

Whichever route you choose, successful completion will allow you to progress onto one of our undergraduate sport degrees.

Find out more about the foundation years and fees:

• Foundation Leading to Sport
• Foundation Leading to Management (Sport)

The foundation year is intended to prepare you for your subsequent years of studying, offering you the chance to strengthen your skills, knowledge and confidence. The foundation year will be relevant to:

1. Students who aspire to enrol onto the first year of a science-based honours degree programme within the Cardiff School of Health Sciences, who have not achieved the standard entry requirements to enter at year one of the chosen degree.
2. Students who have not studied subjects that provide the necessary background within the scientific disciplines required to enter at year one of the chosen degree.
3. Mature students who have been out of the formal education system for some time.

Please note: You will need to apply using a specific UCAS code if you wish to undertake the 4 years including foundation.

Year One (Level 4)

In Year One, students build strong foundations and are introduced to the fundamental concepts underpinning cricket performance management. The focus is on establishing a broad understanding of the cricket industry, coaching principles, performance analysis, sport science, player development, leadership, and professional skills. During Term 1 of Level 4, students undertake two key core modules; one that focuses on understanding the global cricket industry and the other that provides a foundational understanding of cricket performance from a technical, tactical, physical and psychological perspective. The final portfolio-wide module is across the entire year and supports students’ transition into and through their first year at university.

Modules (All Core)

• Professional and Academic Development (40 credits)
• Foundations of Cricket Performance (40 credits)
• Understanding the Global Cricket Sport Industry (20 credits)
• Multidisciplinary Applications of Performance Analysis (20 credits)

Year Two (Level 5)

In Year Two, students begin to apply their knowledge within more complex cricket performance environments. Greater emphasis is placed on critical analysis, evidence-based decision-making, and professional practice. Students engage with modules exploring talent identification, performance analysis technologies, coaching interventions, player welfare, sport management, and applied research methods. Year Two follows a similar structure to Year One, where students complete two core cricket modules that run across Terms 1 and 2 that extend their knowledge of applied cricket performance and the second introduces key principles allied to managing cricket events and services.

Modules (All Core)

• Project-Based Learning (40 credits)
• Coaching with Performance Data (20 credits)
• Leading and Managing People in Sport (20 credits)
• Managing Cricket Events and Services (20 credits)
• Applied Cricket Performance (20 credits)

Year Three (Level 6)

At Year Three, students are expected to demonstrate autonomy, leadership, and advanced critical thinking. The curriculum focuses on strategic performance management, leadership in cricket environments, innovation, applied research, and contemporary issues affecting cricket performance. Students critically evaluate current practice, synthesise knowledge from across the programme and develop evidence-informed solutions to complex performance challenges. Level 6 incorporates a year-long compulsory module, that integrates high-performance systems thinking, interdisciplinary performance planning, advanced analytics, ethical leadership, and a structured work-based learning placement within a professional cricket environment. The Term 1 module will focus on strategic management and then Term 2 takes students toward managing within high performance environments.

Modules (All Core)

• Final Project (40 credits)
• Advanced Cricket Performance (40 credits)
• Sports Governance and Leadership (20 credits)
• Managing High Performance Sport (20 credits)

Effective learning, teaching and assessment methods underpin the educational aims and the learning outcomes of all our programmes and modules. Throughout our undergraduate degrees we focus on providing the authentic learning experiences to both challenge and develop all our students. Authentic learning is a learner-centred approach in which you’ll develop your knowledge and skills by engaging in, and addressing, real life problems that demand the use of higher order thinking skills, real world resources and tools while thinking and acting like an expert within the context of your degree. Across the range of undergraduate sport degrees, you’ll experience “project and practice ways of working”, where you’ll experience working on real challenges, projects or problems set by people and communities that value to support and solutions that you can offer and acknowledge the value of learning through real experiences.

To facilitate authentic learning, we utilise a diverse range of learning and teaching methods that may include lectures, seminars, workshops, tutorials and practical sessions. All of these are supported by our Virtual Learning Environment which is an integral but flexible aspect of the learning package that supports your needs. Typically, lead lectures introduce key topics, concepts and challenges, whilst seminars, tutorials, workshops and practical sessions focus on the application of key concepts with the aim of enhancing your student experience and engagement. We work hard to provide authentic, student-centred learning opportunities that deliver a high quality and flexible learning environment but focuses on enabling you to develop into a flexible, highly employable graduate of the future.

Learning and teaching methods will also emphasise and facilitate the development of your critical reasoning and encourage the integration of practice and theory. Throughout your studies, you will experience both tutor-led learning and self-directed methods of learning, increase independence and reflection and encourage you to develop a positive attitude toward lifelong learning. Along the way you’ll have the support of a Personal Academic Tutor who is there to support you pastorally and academically during your time at Cardiff Met.

We aim to help you to develop into a reflective professional and critical scholar.

In your sport degree at Cardiff Met, you will encounter a learning experience from induction to graduation that is coherent, challenging and develops your confidence, competence and identity within your programme of study.

Your learning experience on the programme is built around the real world of cricket. From day one you’ll be working with authentic performance environments, coaching, analysing match footage, and engaging with industry professionals through Cardiff Met’s unique partnership with Glamorgan County Cricket Club at Sophia Gardens. The curriculum develops you progressively: at Level 4 you’ll build your foundations through supported practical sessions and coaching delivery; at Level 5 you’ll take on greater responsibility through industry-engaged projects and direct involvement in programmes at Glamorgan CCC; and at Level 6 you’ll operate with genuine professional independence – leading applied research, completing a work-based placement, and producing outputs of real industry value.

Teaching methods reflect how cricket professionals actually work. You’ll learn through case-based and experiential learning, collaborative projects, performance analysis labs, sport science sessions, and regular engagement with coaches, analysts and practitioners from the professional game. Cardiff Met’s world-class facilities at Cyncoed – including the Performance Analysis Lab, the National Indoor Athletics Centre and the Archers Performance Centre – combine with the National Cricket Centre at Sophia Gardens to give you access to an environment that very few undergraduate programmes anywhere can match.

The assessment strategies for each module vary to ensure that most appropriate method is implemented for your area of study. Modes of assessment are designed to both enhance but also challenge your learning experience whilst ensuring that you have fulfilled the learning outcomes linked to each module. Assessment also ensures that you have achieved the standard required to progress to the next stage or to qualify for an award. The modules are designed to support your learning experience by providing opportunities for you to engage in formative and summative assessments to test your knowledge, ability, skill, and critical understanding. The undergraduate modules are assessed using a diverse range of assessment methods. For example:

• Written coursework
• Group challenges
• Oral presentations
• Portfolios of work and evidence
• Seen and unseen exams
• Practical skills
• Viva voce examinations
• Professional discussions
• Industry placements and situational learning
• Other activities designed to assess, develop, and enhance academic and employability skills

You will be expected to complete a final project as part of the assessment of your honour’s degree. Final projects are major pieces of work that may be a research, innovation, consultancy or community project.

Assessment on this programme is designed to feel like professional practice. Rather than relying on traditional exams, you’ll be assessed through portfolios, coaching practicals, performance analysis reports, presentations, reflective logs, live event delivery, and a major independent final project. Each method mirrors the kind of work you’ll do in a cricket performance role. At Level 4 the focus is on building confidence and receiving developmental feedback; at Level 5 assessments become more analytical and applied; and at Level 6 you’ll produce graduate-level professional outputs – including a final project and a panel presentation.

Feedback is treated as a core part of your learning throughout. You’ll receive written feedback, individual tutorials, peer review, verbal feedback during practicals, and feedforward guidance that helps you improve from one module to the next. The assessment diet is deliberately varied to suit different strengths – practical demonstrations, digital outputs, collaborative group work, and independent written work all play a role – ensuring you can demonstrate what you know in ways that are relevant and meaningful.

All undergraduate sport degrees are underpinned by the Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences employability framework. This framework has been developed as a holistic curricular and extra-curricular approach to embedding employability across the undergraduate portfolio, and ensures programmes recognise and develop opportunities to enhance your employability by blending the following elements:

• Disciplinary knowledge
• Work based learning
• Work related learning
• Career development planning
• Entrepreneurship and enterprise education
• Graduate skills and lifelong learning
• Developing professional identity

During your first year of study, you will get the opportunity to undertake professional development activities across a diverse range of industry relevant areas including sport coaching, exercise training, and health and safety. These opportunities will ensure that you have the appropriate qualifications and experience to progress with your studies and, where your programme requires it, apply for one of the many work placement opportunities on offer both on and off campus. We will also support you to seek opportunities to work or study abroad or engage in a year in industry.

This programme has been designed with a clear destination in mind: a career in professional cricket. The curriculum was shaped through direct consultation with industry to focus on applied performance analysis, coaching knowledge, leadership, and player development expertise within the modern cricket industry. Career pathways include coaching and player development, performance analysis, talent identification, cricket operations and administration, athlete support services, and sport development across men’s, women’s, disability, and community cricket at all levels of the game.

What sets this programme apart is the depth of real-world experience woven into every year of study. The partnership with Glamorgan County Cricket Club means you graduate with not just a degree, but a professional network and a portfolio of authentic industry experience. The programme’s ‘observe-apply-lead’ philosophy ensures that by graduation you’ll have accumulated substantial, varied experience across coaching, performance, management, and applied research, placing you in an excellent position to step confidently into the cricket and wider sport industry.

Typical Offers

The following requirements are based on typical offers relevant to entering year 1 of the degree.

If you do not meet these entry requirements, we also offer two foundation year routes that would allow progression to Year 1 upon successful completion. Find out more about these two foundation routes in the ‘Foundation Year’ section (above) on this page.

• Tariff points: 104-112
• Contextual offer: See our contextual offers page.
• GCSE: Five GCSEs at Grade C / 4 or above to include English Language / Welsh First Language, Mathematics / Mathematics – Numeracy.
• English Language Requirement: Academic IELTS 6.0 overall with at least 5.5 in all elements, or equivalent.
• A level subjects: Three A levels to include grade BB. No specific subjects required. Welsh Advanced Skills Baccalaureate considered as a third subject.
• BTEC National / Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: DMM
• T Level: Merit.
• Access to Higher Education Diploma: 15 Level 3 credits at Distinction and 30 Level 3 credits at Merit. No specific subjects required.
• International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma: Higher Level Grade 6. No specific subjects required.
• Irish Leaving Certificate: 3 x H2. No specific subjects required. Higher level subjects only considered, with a minimum grade H4.
• Scottish Advanced Highers: Grade C. No specific subjects required. Scottish Highers are also considered, either on their own or in combination with Advanced Highers.

Combinations of the above qualifications are accepted if they meet our minimum requirements. If your qualifications aren’t listed, please contact Admissions or refer to the UCAS Course Search.

Further information on Overseas qualifications can be found here.

If you are a mature applicant, have relevant experience or RPL that you would like us to consider, please contact Admissions.

How to Apply

Further information on how to apply can be found here.

For general enquiries, please contact the Admissions Team on 029 2041 6010 or email askadmissions@cardiffmet.ac.uk.

For course specific enquiries, please contact the Programme Support Team:

• Email: CSSHSLTSE@cardiffmet.ac.uk