Linfield Football Club (LFC) founded in March 1886 is a semi-professional Northern Irish football club playing in the Northern Ireland Football League (NIFL) Premiership, the second-oldest national league in the world after the Football League in England. LFC have had significant sporting success having won the League title a record 51 times since the 1890–91 season. The club also holds the record of most Irish Cup wins with 42, most Irish League Cup wins with 9, and most County Antrim Shield wins with 42. Their trophy haul makes LFC the most successful team in Northern Irish football. LFC secured funding for a total of 30 participants of VET staff, being a mixture of players and community and grassroots coaches employed by the Club to deliver vocationally relevant training to young players to support the clubs objectives. The background to the proposed mobility was to address a recruitment drive by LFC to provide formally qualified coaches for their Academy structure in parallel with the planned extensive redevelopment of the club and national stadium. LFC had a large proportion of potential participants within areas of targeted social need (TSN) as classified by the N Ireland Statistics Research Agency in 2010. The Club's strategy was three fold in that it aimed to: i) promote participation in grassroots football at the very lowest level ii) identify and train youth players to give them every opportunity of being signed up by a professional Club in England /Scotland iii) provided the opportunity of professional first team football at the highest level within Northern Ireland's domestic league In the 2011 Club Development Plan LFC's aim, aside from increasing participation, was to improve performance by making their academy which is well renowned locally to become the premier academy in Northern Ireland and they recognised the need to learn from European coaching practises in order to do so. By recognising the high drop out rates particularly in the 17-19 year old range, LFC identified the need to provide an opportunity for players at this vulnerable age, at which disadvantaged youths disillusioned with high rates of unemployment and who all too often resort to anti social behaviour; to continue in the game and saw an introduction to coaching as an excellent vehicle for them to do so. Availing of a European mobility abroad enabled these beginner coaches to take the first step on the coaching ladder in conjunction with undertaking a recognised qualification that enhanced knowledge, skills and employability. The activities during the mobility comprised a match at Browns between Northern Ireland and Portuguese participants which benchmarked the level of development between the competing players and facilitated discussions between both teams' coaches as to match tactics and technical training. It allowed practical comparison between the two teams and for video analysis to be obtained to form a key part of the participants education and learning on the mobility. It was also used to reach beyond the game using the power of football for good relations and social development, to promote authenticity, unity, equality, European solidarity and integrity to ultimately build a better future for the participants. Such were Browns' connections that they were able not only to offer premier training and match facilities for the Northern Ireland participants against local teams but provided access to the most relevant youth Academy Clubs within the vicinity, compared facilities, coach education, training programmes, ability levels and shared best practice. All parties' contributions were correlated to evaluate the merits of the project in relation to the learning objectives and outcomes as well as identifying areas for improvement for subsequent coaching study visits within the EU.