Football session planner: build a practice from drills
A session is the drills of one practice in order: a warm-up, the main part and a small-sided game to finish, each with its own duration. The planner adds up the minutes as you go, and the finished session opens on your phone at training or prints as a PDF.
What goes into a football practice plan?
A football practice plan lists the drills of one session in order, each with its duration, so you know what comes next and how long it runs. Most plans have three parts: a warm-up, a main part that works on the session's theme, and a small-sided game to finish. For each drill, note the area, the number of players and the equipment, plus one or two coaching points to watch for. The total should fit the training slot, with a couple of minutes left for water breaks and setting up the next drill. In the session planner you add drills from your own saves or the public library, drag them into order and set the minutes, and the planner adds up the total as you go. The finished plan opens on your phone at training or prints as a PDF. A free account keeps 2 sessions: the ready-made example and one of your own.
How a session comes together
Create a session and give it a date, a time and a length. Then add drills: your own saved ones, any of the hundred-plus drills in the public library, or a plain-text drill when it doesn't need a diagram. Drag them into order and set the minutes for each. If you'd rather start from a ready outline, the AI session builder picks drills from the library for a topic, player count, age group and length.
Or start from the ready-made 60-minute practice plan template
Draw a drill of your own in the drill diagram maker
What a session looks like
Every new account gets this example. Sign in and it becomes your own copy to edit.
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Passing circle
The animation first shows a common mistake and then the correct way. The players on the outside have balls. The players in the middle move and ask for the ball from the outside players and at first return it after a control (aiming to do so with the 2nd touch) and then one-touch as a one-two. The third variation is a throw from the wide player, which the middle player controls and returns. The middle players always go through the middle of the area after the return pass before asking for a new pass.
10 min - 2
Cone slalom dribbling
Place the cones generously apart so that there are several touches between them. In phase 1, go around the cones normally, varying the dribbling methods (free, sole of the foot, turns with the outside/inside of the foot, etc.). In phase 2, go fully around the cones using either the inside or the outside of the foot.
15 min - 3
1v1 to four corner goals
Two players play against each other in a square-shaped area, with a cone goal in each corner. The player on the ball can attack any of the four goals and tries to dribble the ball through the goal.
15 min - 4
3v3 line game
3v3 game without goals. A goal is scored when a team gets the ball under control behind the opponent’s end line. If the whole team comes short to the ball, there is no one behind the line to pass to. One player stays high and runs in behind the defender. The animation first shows the usual mistake and then the correct way. Area approximately 20 × 20 m, and a two-metre zone behind each end line. The receiver must control the ball behind the line. A shot or dribbling over the line is not enough.
20 min
Sharing the session with your team
Open the session on your phone at the side of the pitch, or save it as a PDF and print it. In a club, sessions go into the team calendar, and every coach on the team sees the same session with their own login. Copy a session to next week and change only what needs changing.
What each plan includes
A free account keeps 2 sessions: the ready-made example and one of your own. Their PDFs carry a watermark, and you can save 5 drills of your own.
Premium (€4.99/month) gives you unlimited sessions and drills, and the PDFs have no watermark.
A free club has up to 3 teams and 5 events per team, trainings and matches together. Paid club plans start at €14.99/month, with unlimited sessions in every team calendar.