Titus, SimoneJacobs, Ashley Ian2020-11-022024-04-172020-11-022024-04-172020https://hdl.handle.net/10566/11279Magister Artium (Sport, Recreation and Exercise Science) - MA(SRES)Football around the globe has been used as a vehicle for youth development initiatives. Youth development programmes foster social change in communities and provide an ideal development context that often results in active sport participation. In South Africa, there are a number of youth development programmes that not only use football, but also other sporting codes to implement and create sustainable youth development programmes. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore best practices in youth development programmes of selected football academies in the Western CapeenFootballPositive youth developmentBest practicesSport-for-developmentWestern CapeUniversity of Western Cape