7 short lessons · ~51 minutes · No code

Give Claude
Football Superpowers

Claude is the smartphone. Football AI skills are the apps. Most coaches are using the phone with nothing installed. In 51 minutes you will have Claude running on your computer with specialist football skills installed — referee, session planner, player stats, the lot.

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7
Lessons (~51 min total)
3
Skills installed by lesson 4
$10
Lifetime access
0
Coding required
The premise

Your phone without apps
still works. It just does less.

If you are using Claude in a browser or the basic app, you are using the smartphone before WhatsApp and Google Maps and your banking app got installed. It is clever. It can help with lots of things. But it does not know your specific football world. Skills change that.

01

Stop getting "confidently wrong" answers

Ask Claude about the offside rule without a referee skill installed and you get its best guess. With the skill installed, it pulls the actual IFAB Laws of the Game. Every time. No guessing.

02

Generalist becomes specialist

One skill turns Claude into a referee. Another turns it into a session planner. Another pulls live data from 100+ leagues. Add and remove as you need.

03

Done in a Sunday afternoon

The whole course is ~51 minutes. Lesson 1 is what skills are. By Lesson 4 you have three skills running together. By Lesson 7 you can find, install, and manage skills on your own.

Before / after

Same question. Different answer.

This is what installing one referee skill does. Multiply across sessions, scouting, planning, parent communication.

Claude — with vs without the referee skill
Claude, no skill
"Is it offside if the attacker is level with the second-last defender but a defender's arm is closer to goal?"

"I think the arm doesn't count for offside, but let me double-check… actually, I'm not 100% sure. The rule may have changed recently."
Claude + referee skill
IFAB Laws of the Game · Law 11 · 2024/25
Hands and arms of all players, including goalkeepers, are NOT considered for offside.

The "second-last defender" reference point is the relevant body part used to score a goal.

✓ Sourced from the actual Laws
✓ Citation included
✓ Updated when IFAB updates
The curriculum

7 short lessons. ~51 minutes.

Written lessons with screenshots, not video. Move at your own pace. Each lesson ends with a checkpoint so you know it worked.

01

What Are AI Skills?

The smartphone-without-apps analogy. Why a skill turns Claude from a generalist into a specialist.

5 min
02

Get Claude on Your Computer

Install Claude Desktop on Mac or Windows. Find the Developer settings (without being a developer).

8 min
03

Install Your First Skill

Paste a config block. Restart Claude. Ask it a football question. See the difference in the answer.

10 min
04

Add More Skills

Run referee, session planner, and player-stats skills together. Claude knows which to call when.

8 min
05

Claude Code — The Power Tool

The terminal version. Sounds scary, is one-liners. Adds skills with a single command, no config file edits.

10 min
06

Skills in Your Browser

The connectors interface on claude.ai for when you cannot install the desktop app (school laptop, work machine).

5 min
07

Finding and Managing Skills

Browse the skill marketplace. Add new ones, remove old ones, troubleshoot when something will not load.

5 min
Included

Plus the skill list and
the troubleshooting cheat sheet.

The 7 lessons get you running. These bonuses keep you running when something goes wrong six weeks later and you have forgotten which file does what.

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The Football Skill List

Bonus 1

A curated list of the football-relevant skills worth installing, with the one-line config block for each. Copy, paste, restart Claude, done.

  • [+] Referee skill — IFAB Laws of the Game
  • [+] Session planner skill — age-appropriate sessions
  • [+] Player stats skill — 100+ leagues, live data
  • [+] Coach reflection skill — journaling prompts
  • [+] Updated as new skills land
FIX

The Troubleshooting Cheat Sheet

Bonus 2 · printable

The 12 things that go wrong when you install a skill, in order of how often coaches hit them. Each one with the fix in one screen. Pinned in your dashboard for the rest of time.

F1
"Claude does not seem to be using the skill" — the restart trick
F2
"Invalid JSON" config errors — the comma trap
F3
Mac vs Windows path differences — the one screenshot you need
F4
Claude Code says "command not found" — the PATH fix
  • [+] One A4 page, print-friendly
  • [+] Updated whenever a new common failure shows up in the community
  • [+] Direct link to ask Kevin if your problem is not on the sheet
  • [+] Works for any skill, not just football ones
// The course teaches you the install. The cheat sheet keeps you running.
Who this is for

Built for coaches who have heard of
Claude but use it for nothing serious.

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Coaches new to Claude

You have used ChatGPT a bit, you know Claude exists, you have never installed an app on a computer that scared you. Perfect starting point.

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Referees and assistant referees

Having the IFAB Laws of the Game one question away — with the citation — is the single biggest win for your role. The referee skill alone is worth the £10.

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Anyone landing on aifootball.co

You saw the FootballGPT / RefereeGPT / CoachReflect tools and thought "this looks great but I do not know how to use it". This course is the bridge.

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Sellable to non-football people too

If you teach others (parents, players, fellow coaches) how to use AI, this course is sellable to them. The skills mechanism is identical outside football.

The payoff

5 skills you can run on day one

By the end of Lesson 4 you have three skills running together. Lesson 7 shows you the marketplace. Here is what most coaches install first.

01

Referee

IFAB Laws of the Game, cited every time. Updated when the rules update.

02

Session planner

Age-appropriate sessions with progressions, coaching points and timings.

03

Player stats

Pull live data from 100+ leagues. Compare players, build scout reports.

04

Coach reflection

Post-session journaling. Claude asks the questions, you do the thinking.

05

Football GPT skill

Claude calls the FootballGPT engine directly. Best-of-both worlds.

Your instructor
KM

Kevin Middleton

UEFA-licensed coach · AI builder · Founder of 360TFT

I have coached football for 15 years in Scotland — grassroots, academy, women's senior. I have also built and shipped 8 AI products used by 10,000+ coaches and players. The skills you install in this course are the same ones I have in my own Claude.

I wrote this course because I kept doing the same install over a Zoom call for individual coaches. By Lesson 5 they could do it themselves. Now you can too.

15+ years coaching
8 AI products shipped
10,000+ coaches reached
UEFA licensed
Get started

One price. Lifetime access.

$10
One-time payment · Lifetime access
  • [✓] 7 written lessons with screenshots (~51 min total)
  • [✓] Copy-paste config blocks for every skill
  • [✓] Mac and Windows instructions side by side
  • [✓] Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and claude.ai covered
  • [✓] Bonus: The Football Skill List (curated, updated)
  • [✓] Bonus: The Troubleshooting Cheat Sheet (1-page)
  • [✓] Access to AI Football Skool community
  • [✓] Direct Q&A with Kevin
Unlock the course — $10

Unlocked instantly inside AI Football Skool. Or upgrade to Premium and this is included.
Claude itself is free. The skills are free. This course is the install guide.

Questions

Frequently asked

Do I need to know how to code?
No. You will paste a config block into a settings file in Lesson 3. That is the most "technical" thing you do. If you have ever changed a setting in any app on your phone, this is easier.
Do I need to pay for Claude?
No. A free Claude account works for everything in this course. Some advanced skills work better on a paid plan but you can run the football set on free.
Mac or Windows?
Both. Every lesson has Mac and Windows screenshots side by side. The Claude Desktop app runs on both. The only material difference is where the config file lives, and Lesson 2 shows you both.
What about Linux / Chromebook / iPad?
Lesson 6 covers claude.ai in the browser, which is the route for Chromebooks, iPads, and locked-down work laptops. You lose a few skills that need the desktop app, but the core football skills work fine.
What is the difference between this and "Your First Football AI Agent"?
"Your First Football AI Agent" ($10) teaches you to build your OWN custom GPT from scratch — you are the maker. This course ($10) teaches you to INSTALL existing skills built by others — you are the user. Most coaches start here and graduate to the build course later.
Is it included in AI Football Skool Premium?
Yes. Premium members of AI Football Skool get this course at no extra cost, along with every other paid course in the community. Standalone is $10 forever.