Football (Soccer) Coaching Toolkit
The Football (Soccer) Coaching Toolkit is a 105 × 68 m pitch drawn from the Laws of the Game geometry — 16.5 m penalty areas, 9.15 m circle and arcs drawn only outside the area — for linked formations, pressing triggers and build-up patterns. It adds an offside-position illustration, original drills, a session planner, fitness timers and a match desk with shot conversion.
How to use this calculator
- Start on the Tactics tab: the board opens with an illustrative Football (Soccer) example, drawn to scale in metres. Drag tokens, or select one in the object list and move it with the arrow keys.
- Use Run, Pass, Carry and Screen to draw movement: click a token, then where it goes (for a pass, click the receiver). Set timings and an instruction in the inspector.
- Add scenes with 'Continue to new scene', and add branches for what happens when the opposition or context changes. Play a scene or the whole sequence; captions and a transcript follow along.
- Open a starter drill from the Drills tab, plan sessions (including parallel stations) on the Training tab, time fitness work on the Fitness tab and keep a match record on Match day.
- Export a PDF, SVG, PNG or .zcoach file. Exports are anonymised unless you choose to include names, notes or results.
How it works
Everything on the board is stored in real field units, not screen pixels: the board scales uniformly to fit, and rotating or zooming the view never changes a stored position. Field markings are generated from geometry, so fixed-size markings keep their size on a custom field.
A playbook is a graph of scenes joined by labelled branches. Paths move tokens at constant speed along their length; a pass carries the ball to its receiver, and a warning appears if the receiver will not be there. A loop must have a repeat limit before it can play or export.
Formation presets (4-3-3, 4-4-2, 3-5-2) arrange the home team as editable teaching shapes.
The offside-position illustration draws the line at the second-last opponent or the ball, whichever is nearer the goal line, and circles attackers beyond it in the opponents' half. It never judges involvement or a referee decision.
Shot conversion is goals ÷ shots; with no shots it shows no data, not 0%.
Your work saves automatically in this browser about half a second after each change, with undo for the last 100 edits and the last 20 saved revisions kept. A board changed in another tab is never overwritten silently — you can keep yours as a copy.
Worked example
Worked example: fixed markings on a custom pitch. Change the pitch to 90 × 45 m for a junior venue and the penalty area is still 16.5 m deep and 40.32 m wide, the goal 7.32 m and the penalty mark 11 m out. A 4-3-3 is 10 outfield players plus the goalkeeper — 11 tokens.
Common mistakes
- Treating the offside overlay as a decision. Being in an offside position is not an offence on its own; the overlay is a teaching aid.
- Stretching the fixed markings with the pitch. Areas, circle and goal keep their Law 1 sizes on any pitch size.
- Sharing a named export by accident. Exports leave out names, notes and results unless you tick them in, and anonymising removes them from the file rather than hiding them.
Frequently asked questions
Why is part of the penalty arc missing?
The arc is the part of the 9.15 m circle around the penalty mark that lies outside the penalty area, so only that part is drawn — as on a real pitch.
Is my team's information uploaded?
No. Boards, rosters, sessions, results and matches are saved only in this browser on this device, with no account. Anyone using the same browser profile can see them, and clearing site data removes them — download a backup from the Library tab if they matter.
Are the drills and plays official?
No. The Football (Soccer) starter drills and playbooks are original teaching examples written for this toolkit and still awaiting review by qualified coaches. They are a starting point, not a complete curriculum, and contact is none by default.
Does the toolkit apply the rules of my competition?
It draws field markings from published geometry and keeps every competition-dependent value — scoring values, period lengths, interchange limits — as a setting you confirm. Advisories (legal areas, offside position, retreat lines) are teaching overlays, never a referee's decision.
Can I share a play with my team?
Yes, by file: export a PDF or image for players, or a .zcoach file another coach can import. An imported file opens as a new copy and never overwrites your work. There is no hosted team link.
Is the shuttle timer a beep test?
No. It is a custom paced shuttle you configure — lane length, speeds, shuttles and recoveries — and it is labelled as not a standardised test. Named standard tests stay switched off until their exact timing, rules, edition and reuse rights are verified, and no VO2 or fitness ranking is produced.
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Cite this tool
Zerdly. (2026). Football (Soccer) Coaching Toolkit. Retrieved from https://www.zerdly.com/tools/soccer-coaching/
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