For several reasons, Landskrona BoIS is a suitable sports association to use as an example to discuss sport as a system for nurturing and education. Today, Landskrona BoIS belongs to the elite of Swedish football. At the same time the organization is largely based on voluntary work, especially within the youth training programme. Thus it constitutes an interesting area of research in order to study the increasing professionalization, capitalization and commercialization of a non‐profit organization, and in particular the role of education, its design and function in this process. This paper tests the supposition that the more professionalized a sports organization becomes, the more their youth training will resemble the public school system. The basis for this supposition is that every professional organization (inside as well as outside sport) strives for a formal, uniform and equivalent education with systematic knowledge of the subjects, a uniform pedagogy and professional teachers, as well as a uniform and consequent grading system.