Tennis Coach (ANZSCO 452316)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Tennis Coach on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189) — Permanent, points-tested, no sponsor needed · all occupations for the 189
Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190) — Permanent, state or territory nominated · all occupations for the 190
Skilled Work Regional visa (subclass 491) — Provisional, regional, points-tested · all occupations for the 491
Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
Temporary Graduate visa (subclass 485) — Temporary, recent Australian graduates · all occupations for the 485
Training visa (subclass 407) — Temporary, workplace training · all occupations for the 407

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Tennis Coach comes from:

Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Tennis Coach as a Group F occupation — AQF Certificate II floor, three-pathway structure — with a suitable-occupation list naming Tennis Instructor, and an explicit exclusion of Tennis Centre Manager and Tennis Player as NOT suitable under this code. Self-employment evidence is spelled out on this page in the same shape as Swimming Coach and Other Sports Coach or Instructor: business registration details, a statutory declaration, payment evidence, and supplementary contracts or testimonials for coaches who work independently rather than for an employer.

Where these applications come unstuck

Tennis Coach carries the family's sharpest confusable-code trap in reverse: it is on the MLTSSL, reaching the full points-tested set including the independent 189 permanent visa — but it does not reach 186 or 482, so there is no employer-sponsorship door through this code at all. An employer wanting to sponsor a tennis coach has to pursue the nec code, Other Sports Coach or Instructor, instead — which has no 189 door of its own. Confusing the two, in either direction, closes the pathway that actually matches the applicant's situation.

An honest read on this pathway

This is a genuinely open, well-supported permanent pathway for an independent applicant, and a genuine dead end for an employer trying to sponsor one. One data-quality note worth flagging, not acting on: Tennis Coach's own live page and its info-sheet PDF both misname a sentence as belonging to Other Sports Coach or Instructor — a copy-paste error on VETASSESS's site, not a change to Tennis Coach's actual Group F classification.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating Tennis Coach is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.

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