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Use this section to filter all of our drills, games and session plans by coaching theme.

You'll find activities on passing, shooting, tackling, crossing, dribbling and much more.

Use the search function to find a specific activity, or filter by individual themes.

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Small-sided game: Turn on the switch

Use this small-sided game to create gaps in the defence by switching play and then making the killer pass

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Warm up: Turn on the switch

Use this three-part session to create gaps in the defence by switching play and then making the killer pass.

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Side-to-side switch

Improve players’ ability to identify opportunities to exploit space by using long balls, a series of short passes or both.

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Practice 2: Play out from defence

Encourage your players to build out from the back with this session. Use this session as a standalone activity, or combine it with two pr...

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Practice 1: Play out from defence

Encourage your players to build out from the back with this session. Use this session as a standalone activity, or combine it with two pr...

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Small-sided game: Play out from defence

Encourage your players to build out from the back with this session. Use this session as a standalone activity, or combine it with two pr...

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Long pass to switch play

A ‘piggy in the middle’-style game in which players learn when to go direct to team-mates while under pressure.

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Practice: Passing to break from midfield

With limited passes before a shot must be made, players learn how to break from midfield with pace and precision

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Line-breaking passes

Use defence-splitting passes to break the defensive line and put attackers through on goal. By MICHAEL BEALE

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Fast with the pass

Fast passing games help teams to keep the ball when they play in matches. This unopposed game helps develop first touch, movement and ...

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Go forward or switch

Players need to be able to create space to either play forward or switch play.

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Accurate long passes

Use this session to train your players to hit a team-mate with pinpoint accuracy. Good long passing from side to side or to an advancing ...

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Engine room passing

Once your midfielders have won the ball, this session will show them what to do with it so they can quickly create goalscoring chances.

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Break For The Line

This session combines specific moves to help players understand team play and decision-making by playing out from the back.

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Create space - game

This game encourages teams to switch play and to create space away from the ball – it is a condition of the game that teams must switch ...

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Hit wide areas

This session focuses on hitting wide areas with the use of group attacks and switching. It works on the basic play used to develop ...

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Coconut shy

A basic introduction for helping with weight and accuracy of passing. Can also be a good game for a cool down or to be used during a ...

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Pass with purpose

It is important for young players to recognise when the ball is passed to them by looking up at all times giving them more chance to ...

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Running backs

This session will help school your players in defending against the many difficult situations that arise from opponents launching long ...

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Passing technique

Passing sequences are fun ways to get your team used to linking play and using the ball with good direction and weight.

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Dangerous bend

This sessions helps players to practise swerving the ball, which is an important skill to help them take advantage of goal scoring ...

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Brazilian swerve

Bending the ball from free kicks is a fabulous skill to have and players can have great fun trying to do it!

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Direct central passing

This session looks at improving the speed of passing moves in attacking situations. It uses fast counter-attacking as a key weapon using ...

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Front press

The session is all about players who are ahead of the ball being able to recover to get behind it when possession is lost, forming a ...

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