British Dodgeball says coaching pipeline includes 3,000 qualified coaches in UK

British Dodgeball counts more than 3,000 qualified dodgeball coaches in the UK. The governing body works with about 1,000 people a year to train them in dodgeball delivery, turning volunteers, teachers and club leaders into qualified coaches through a formal pathway.

Its introductory coaching workshops have no prerequisites and are open to anyone involved in coaching, leading or teaching dodgeball. The Level 1 Award in Coaching Dodgeball is open from age 14 and covers the rules, equipment, sporting code, different player groups and basic delivery. The next step, the Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Dodgeball, is for ages 16 and up after Level 1 and expands into technical coaching, offensive and defensive strategy, and adapting the ruleset to help player development.

Level 2 is the minimum requirement for coaching sessions independently in the UK, while Coach Membership includes public liability insurance and ongoing training and forms part of the Minimum Deployment Requirements.

At the top end, the Level 3 Coaching Award is required for international team coaches and recommended for club head coaches. The course was redesigned and relaunched in July 2022, linking it to the wider coach progression pathway and offering a partly online format with experiential learning between course dates. Its courses are developed by teaching and coaching professionals worldwide and endorsed by the World Dodgeball Federation’s Coaching Committee.

British Dodgeball is the National Governing Body for dodgeball in the UK, recognized by the World Dodgeball Federation and the European Dodgeball Federation, and works with schools, clubs, universities, national teams, officials and other sports organizations. A British Dodgeball case-study document puts dodgeball as the most in-demand sport in the country in an Ofsted 2018 reference, and more than half a million people played weekly in Sport England Active Lives Survey 2019. In December 2025, the governing body expanded its Schools Championships for 2026.