27 pre-season drills for grassroots football coaches, from U7 to adult. Each with step-by-step instructions, coaching points, and a visual diagram.
Most U12 pre-season sessions start with football and assume players will fig…
View drill →Pre-season blocks only have value if the concepts transfer to match play…
View drill →The single biggest mistake at pre-season week 1 is running a session like it…
View drill →Generic interval running produces generic fitness…
View drill →By weeks 3-4 of pre-season, players have technical reactivation in their leg…
View drill →The first session back after summer break at U8–U11 needs one thing above al…
View drill →Modern pre-season fitness should be ball-led, not lap-led…
View drill →By week 3 of pre-season the team needs to rebuild the combination play habit…
View drill →In weeks 2–4 of pre-season, the fitness component needs to be embedded in ga…
View drill →Most coaches judge pre-season progress subjectively…
View drill →In weeks 5–6 of pre-season the session format should mirror a match day exac…
View drill →Pre-season is the right time to introduce a new formation or re-introduce la…
View drill →Most squads jump from physical pre-season directly into match-pace tactical …
View drill →Phase 2 of pre-season (weeks 3–4) is where technical habits from last season…
View drill →Technical confidence in 1v1 situations drops during an off-season break…
View drill →Pre-season fitness building used to mean laps and shuttles…
View drill →Goalkeepers are often the last players considered in pre-season planning…
View drill →High-intensity interval training with the ball in weeks 3-4 of pre-season bu…
View drill →The first session of pre-season establishes the culture for the entire year…
View drill →The pre-season possession rondo reactivates technical sharpness after an off…
View drill →Set pieces account for roughly 30% of goals at all levels…
View drill →The first tactical session of pre-season should establish the team's shape a…
View drill →After 4–6 weeks off, players need their nervous system reactivated before an…
View drill →The first session of pre-season is not a fitness test and not a technical dr…
View drill →Pre-season fitness with a small squad is difficult to run effectively — most…
View drill →By week 4 of pre-season, players have their fitness back and their basic tec…
View drill →The first session of pre-season has a specific problem the rest of the year …
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