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School is a representative forum for developing and strengthening student character education. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to implement efficient and effective extracurricular management in strengthening the character education of students in schools by using extracurricular management functions. As for functions planning, organizing, implementing, and supervising so that extracurriculars are achieved as expected. The purpose of this research is to describe how extracurricular management is implemented in strengthening character education. The type of research used in this research was descriptive qualitative with a case study approach. The data were collected by observation, interviews, and documentation. Sources of data were from school principals, extracurricular coaches, and students, and the techniques of data analysis were data reduction, data processing, data display, and data verification. The results of the study showed that the implementation of extracurricular management has been implemented through management functions starting from planning, organizing, implementing, and supervising. The implementation of good management functions has implications for the goals of religious extracurriculars in strengthening character education for students starting from being honest, disciplined, creative, and responsible.

Management; extracurricular; character education