Featured byManchester Metropolitan University
Overview
Scholarship type
Need based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
Full tuition fee waiver + £1,500/year
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
Two scholarships were named after Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Bobby Charlton, two of the most important figures in Manchester United history and honorary graduates of the University.
Set up in partnership with donations from the Manchester United Foundation, the Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Bobby Charlton Scholarships aim to support students who have faced extra challenges in their lives. This could include being the main carer in a family, living with a disability or currently being in receipt of free school meals. These tools and skills provide them with what they need to help transform young lives through football.
Benefits
Full tuition fee waiver and a cash bursary of £1,500 per year for three years.
Eligibility
You must:
- Hold a firm offer to study a new full-time course, excluding foundation year and distance learning, in the 2026/27 academic year in BSc (Hons) Sport and Youth Leadership course.
- Have a household income of £42,875 or less. We’ll check this against your Student Finance application. Please contact us if you will not be applying to Student Finance for a maintenance loan.
- Be a UK student, English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish, paying the standard full-time fees, and have a UK Student Support Number.
- Pay for your course yourself, including through a student loan or a payment from your parents. Your course fees must not be paid by a business, charity or other organisation.
You will also need to satisfy one of these criteria:
- Be a First Generation student. From a family where neither your parents nor guardians attended university and got an undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification in the UK or abroad.
- Have experience of local authority care.
- Be a main carer for a family member or dependent.
- Get disability benefits.
- Get the Education Maintenance Allowance or free school meals.
- Permanently live in an area of high deprivation and low participation in higher education. You can check your postcode online, priority will be for those in the lowest POLAR4 young participation quintile, OfS postcode search.
- Be irreconcilably estranged from your parents or not have communicated with them for at least a year before you intend to start your degree.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Sports Management
Locations
United Kingdom
Nationality
Any
Study experience required
High school
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
31 Aug 2026
You’ll need to complete the application form.
You must apply by 31 August 2026. They will not consider late applications.