Around 2,000 teenagers began a football coaching course which many were unable to complete A football coach training scheme which left hundreds of teenagers without qualifications cost the government's Skills Funding Agency (SFA) £6m.
The now-defunct scheme run by Luis Michael Training (LMT) was in operation at about 80 English and Welsh football clubs including Leeds, Millwall and Nottingham Forest. LMT says it was not to blame for the project's end and denies wrongdoing.
The SFA says colleges have been asked to repay money given to them.
The LMT apprenticeship scheme promised teenagers the chance to gain coaching qualifications while learning in a football club setting.
Successive governments have been committed to apprenticeships as a way of tackling the problems of Neets - young people not in education, employment or training - and also providing the skills that employers want.
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