Soccer drill to boost stamina levels

Stamina and sprint skills

Young teams with players who have the ability to recover quicker and consistently sprint at high speed will have the edge when your team plays a match.

Soccer (football) drills alternating jogging and sprinting

If you set up a soccer drill course, as in the top one in the diagram, you can get four of your players using sprints then jogs to practise match-like situations.

• Tell your players to run the course, alternating between top-speed sprinting and slow jogging.
• One complete circle counts as a single soccer drill repetition.
• Adjust the distance between points accordingly and repeat the drill three to eight times depending on age and fitness.

Key soccer coaching drill tips

This soccer drill session improves endurance levels and mirrors the way players would compete in matches.

Use the second diagram for sprint drills

• Tell your players to sprint from 1 to 6 and then back to 1.
• Rest at each point in the soccer drill for the given amount of time. You can alter the values in the diagram.
• Repeat soccer drill three times and build up over the weeks. Don’t let your players exhaust themselves.

Key soccer coaching tips

This soccer drill is designed to get your players fit quickly.

Make it more fun by getting team-mates to shout out the number of seconds the runner has to wait.