Shape the goalkeeping curriculum

Each programme's development curriculum answers one question: what are we building at each age? When a keeper's plan is written, their goalkeeping goals are built from the wording in this curriculum. Curriculum opens the goalkeeping part of it, and unlike most of what you read across the club, this part you write.

• The curriculum is switched on club by club, alongside development plans.
• "No curriculum available" means no programme has goalkeeping curriculum yet. It starts with your technical director publishing goalkeeping goals; the page fills in from there.
• Changes to a live attribute reach keepers straight away (see below), so it's worth knowing which keepers' plans are active before you edit mid-season.

Curriculum opens on the first programme you can edit. If you work on more than one, buttons along the top switch between them. The subtitle ends goalkeeping attributes only: the outfield curriculum belongs to the technical director, and the goalkeeping attributes are yours in every programme you're on.

The curriculum is organised the way your technical director set it up: Units for U13 and U14, Positions for U15 to U18. Only the groups containing goalkeeping attributes appear. Open one and its attributes are grouped by the four corners.

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In the U13/U14 goalkeeping unit above, technical covers handling crosses, distribution with both feet and shot-stopping from tight angles; tactical covers starting position and organising the back line; physical has explosive power; and psychological and social has bravery in the one-v-one and restarting after conceding.

The Status filter is your worklist. Each attribute is in one of four states: uncovered (nothing written yet), a draft, a gold gap (a draft that doesn't yet meet the club's quality check), or published.

• Needs attention shows everything uncovered plus every gold gap: the list between you and a finished curriculum.
• Drafts shows everything saved but not live, gold gaps included.
• Gold gaps, Published and Uncovered each show just that state, and All clears the filter.

The Corner filter and the search box narrow it further.

Open an attribute and you see its goal exactly as the keeper, their coach and the technical director will see it in a plan. Tap the pencil beside any line to change the wording in place. Write it the way you'd say it to the keeper: something they can see themselves doing, right for the age, and about the behaviour rather than the result.

What happens when you save depends on whether the attribute is already live:

• A draft. Save keeps your wording as a draft and nothing changes for keepers. Publish changes then makes it live. It stays unavailable until you've saved ("Save your changes first.") and until the quality check is happy ("Finish the highlighted suggestions before this goes live.").
• Already published. Save makes the new wording live straight away, with no separate publish step.

Either way, going live also rewrites the goals already built from that attribute for the keepers you coach. The confirmation tells you how far it reached, such as Live — updated 3 player goals.

That deserves some care. Publishing mid-season changes the target under keepers already working towards it. It's fine for a clarity fix; for a real change in standard, time it between blocks or pair it with a conversation at training.

An attribute that says This target has no curriculum template yet has no wording to edit. The wording appears once the curriculum is generated for that attribute, so raise it with your technical director.

When you or a squad coach write a keeper's development plan, the goalkeeping goals come from what you wrote here, for their age. The curriculum is written once for the club; the plans are written keeper by keeper. Get the standard right once and every keeper in every cohort starts from it.

• Every goalkeeping attribute your cohorts' age groups use is published, and Needs attention is empty.
• The wording sounds like you, because keepers will read it as their goals.
• Changes published mid-season were deliberate, and came with a conversation on the training ground.