You can’t be sure, but there are some factors that can help you determine your chances.

1. Your financial expectations

Since many clubs are operating on a tight budget to bring over import players and coaches, they often try and bring in player-coaches. If you are no longer playing, it helps a lot if your financial expectations are reasonable. Sometimes this means offering your services for just enough to cover your expenses. Better yet, if you can offer to pay your airfare, your chances of receiving an offer for a head-coaching position increase dramatically.

2. Your expectations on the level of play

Many clubs looking for import head coaches come from lower leagues overseas. Reason-being, clubs who compete at higher levels often are in leagues that have been established since just after World War II and therefore have experienced local coaches who a) can speak their native language and b) don’t need a special visa to stay there year-round. Clubs that compete in lower leagues have typically only been in existence since the 1990s and therefore do not have a wealth of knowledge former players to choose from as their next head coach.

3. Your ability to still lace them up 

Now that we have established that most coaching jobs are within organizations that compete at relatively lower levels, your washed-up old body may actually be able to help out as a player. Joking aside, we have many former members who assume head coaching positions overseas who still come in on occasion to play. Some even play and coach regularly, such as 42-year-old Luis Camargo, head coach of the Wr. Neustadt Diving Ducks in Austria.

4. Your ability to qualify for dual citizenship. 

Depending on the visa your club can obtain for you, typically a coach cannot stay year-round with their club overseas. This obviously is not ideal for a club and therefore is the biggest hindrance to a club in bringing over a foreign coach. However, many coaches with European routes have been able to obtain dual citizenship with a European country, allowing them to work anywhere in the EU and stay there year-round, long term. If you think you may qualify for dual citizenship in Europe, this can be a major game-changer in bringing in more and bigger offers!

If you want some feedback on where your opportunities may lie should you register, we invite you to fill out the pre-registration feedback form (link).

Only for the ‘Established Pro Coach’ Membership! However it does not matter if you have been paid to coach collegiate or professional baseball. 

Coaching opportunities mostly come out of Europe, but we have had members sign to coach in Australia, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, South Africa, Taiwan and Korea. 

By registering with us you are showcased to clubs around the globe through your profile. Clubs then decide on who they want to make an offer based on what they see within the individual profiles. It is not our decision who the clubs sign and who they do not, therefore we cannot guarantee a signing. With that being said, coaches are desperately needed in many countries overseas simply because there are not enough home-grown, knowledgeable baseball people that can inherit coaching roles. More and more organizations are finding the resources to bring over import coaches—in addition to import players—in order to make a long-term impact on their development.

Of course. We have an extensive database of clubs for our members to browse (430+ baseball, 335+ softball) and growing. Included are links to their social media, emails and video. We are regularly in contact with clubs making recommendations, however, being proactive on your end is also a good approach.