Consensus is that despite critical discussions, formal coach education is limited in equipping practitioners to operate within complex and ever-changing sport environments. In this article, we (1) introduce Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and consider its value in relation to coach education; (2) conceptualise how coach education can foster sustain‘abilities’ and (3) showcase the university course (read also module; paper) IIG206 Sustainable Sports Coaching, which was developed based on the ESD approach and delivered to third-year undergraduate sports coaching students at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Important considerations include pedagogical approach and delivery, time to reimagine a course, positioning of course in a degree programme, course time frame, curricular coherence and teacher flexibility.