Reminder: Safe Contact MANDATORY for 2017

Amateur football coaches are now required to get “Safe Contact trained” in the latest safe blocking and tackling techniques, Football Canada announced today. This coaching requirement was unanimously approved at the 2015 Football Canada planning meetings held mid-January in Toronto. Also approved in January was the requirement for all coaches to take the e-learning module “Making Head Way in Football” available through coach.ca.

“Football Canada and its member provincial organizations are committed to the safety of our athletes,” said Richard MacLean, President of Football Canada.

“That’s why it is vitally important that our coaches be equipped to teach the football fundamentals taught in Safe Contact.”

An integral part of Football Canada’s National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP), Safe Contact teaches safe tackling techniques that emphasizes making contact with the chest and front shoulder and not the head.