Football Programme

Hartpury College

Hartpury, Gloucestershire (South West England) Ages 16-19 Football
⚽ Prestige Partner School
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Professional-club training model on a 360-hectare campus dedicated to sport
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Dual-pathway timetabling: full Level 3 sport qualifications structured around football training and fixtures
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Access to elite human-performance facilities — biomechanics labs, altitude chamber, performance analysis suite — usually reserved for university or pro-club programmes
About the school

Hartpury College

Hartpury College is one of the UK's most successful specialist sport and land-based further education colleges, set on a 360-hectare campus near Gloucester. Its football academy sits inside an Ofsted Outstanding sixth form, pairing a professional-club training environment with full Level 3 academic study. Students train daily under qualified coaches while playing in the Association of Colleges (AoC) elite leagues and competing nationally.

Hartpury College campus
Hartpury College grounds
Heritage & History
Founded in 1948 as an agricultural college, Hartpury has evolved over seven decades into one of the UK's leading specialist sport and land-based education providers, with the college (post-16) and university operating on a shared campus.
Football Programme

Coaching & Development

Players train multiple times a week with dedicated academy coaches, supported by integrated strength and conditioning, sports therapy, video analysis and lifestyle staff drawn from Hartpury's wider sport faculty. The academy competes in the AoC Sport leagues and FA national college competitions, with extensive links to professional and senior non-league clubs allowing dual registration. Performance analysis cameras are built into the 3G pitches and indoor facilities, feeding individual feedback sessions and recruitment footage.

Facilities & Resources
  • Floodlit 3G football pitches with integrated performance-analysis cameras
  • Grass training pitches and competition pitches
  • Double indoor sports hall with performance analysis cameras
  • Human performance and biomechanics laboratories
  • Altitude chamber with anti-gravity treadmill
  • Performance, power and cross-training gyms
  • Rehabilitation suite and therapy clinics
  • Performance analysis suite with testing laboratory
  • On-site residential boarding accommodation
  • On-campus academic teaching blocks, dining, library and student union
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Training Ground

Where Champions Train

World-class facilities designed to develop the next generation of footballing talent.

Floodlit 3G football pitches with integrated performance-analysis camerasGrass training pitches and competition pitchesDouble indoor sports hall with performance analysis camerasHuman performance and biomechanics laboratoriesAltitude chamber with anti-gravity treadmillPerformance, power and cross-training gymsRehabilitation suite and therapy clinicsPerformance analysis suite with testing laboratory
Meet the Team

The coaches behind the programme

_TBC_

Head of Men's Football Academy
Notable Alumni

Graduates who turned pro

Abdul Majeed Waris

Abdul Majeed Waris

Ghana international forward who progressed from Hartpury into a senior career across Spartak Moscow, Lorient, Porto, Strasbourg and the Ghana national team, with appearances at the FIFA World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations.

David Accam

Ghana international winger who developed at Hartpury before a professional career taking in Helsingborg, Chicago Fire (MLS), Philadelphia Union and Nashville SC.

Mustapha Bundu

Sierra Leone international forward who represented his country at the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations after progressing through the Hartpury programme.

Accolades

Track record

Ofsted Outstanding rated collegeMultiple-time AoC Sport national football finalistsPartner programme to Hartpury University's 11-time BUCS Premier League champion senior football sideHartpury University announced as Premier League graduate scholarship partner (2024)Alumni representing nations at senior international level (Ghana, Sierra Leone)
Location

Hartpury, Gloucestershire (South West England)

Hartpury sits in rural Gloucestershire on the edge of the Cotswolds, ten minutes from Gloucester and well-connected by the M5 corridor. The single-site campus combines academic, training, residential and competition facilities, with London reachable by direct train from Gloucester in around two hours.

Nearest city
Gloucester (5 miles)
Distance to London
115 miles
Nearest airports
Bristol Airport (BRS) — 50 miles, Birmingham Airport (BHX) — 75 miles, London Heathrow (LHR) — 105 miles
Hartpury, Gloucestershire (South West England)
Fees

Investment

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Free for eligible UK students aged 16-18 (state-funded FE)
Boarding (UK)
_TBC_ (residential package details on enquiry)
Boarding (international)
£28,900/year all-inclusive (2025-26; includes tuition, accommodation, meals, six airport transfers)
Football programme
£250 Sports Academy joining fee + tiered training balance billed in January
Useful Links
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