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Plan better sessions, bring practices to life and prepare for matchday—with ready-to-run plans, animated practices and practical coaching guidance.

For the coach you are—and the players you actually coach.

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What arrives every week

One subscription. Four things in your inbox every Monday morning.

Session plan

Full 60-minute structure: warm-up, main activity, and cool-down with coaching points for each phase.

Practice diagrams

Animated diagrams showing player movement and ball paths — clear enough to show the players directly.

Printable tactical sheet

One-page PDF with your team positions and tactical setup. Print it, fold it, keep it on the sideline.

Age-group coaching notes

Separate cues from mini juniors to seniors. The same drill, pitched at the right level for your players.

Train → Understand → Matchday

More than a practice library

Everything a grassroots coach needs to plan better sessions, understand the game, and prepare for matchday.

01

Train

What do I run on Tuesday?

  • Practice library
  • Animated practices
  • Weekly focus
02

Understand

How do I get better at this?

  • Coach development
  • Tactical understanding
  • Player development
03

Matchday

How do we play on Sunday?

  • Game cards
  • Formation guidance
  • Opposition setups

Your whole coaching week

Everything your coaching week needs

One connected toolkit for planning, delivery, matchday and long-term development.

Plan

Know what to coach
  • Ready-to-run coaching sessions
  • Sessions matched to your team
  • Find the right coaching content quickly
  • Printable coaching plans

Deliver

Explain it with confidence
  • Ready-to-run coaching sessions
  • Animated practice diagrams
  • Printable coaching plans
  • Share plans with your coaching team

Prepare

Take it into matchday
  • Printable coaching plans
  • Saved Matchday plans
  • Tactical Game Cards for the touchline

Develop

Keep becoming a better coach
  • Find the right coaching content quickly
  • Community-rated coaching sessions
  • Age-specific coaching guidance
  • Technical and tactical development library

All of this for £3/month—not per session, course or download.

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This week's practices

Session plans ready to run on the training ground. New content every week.

FootballIntermediate

Pressing & High Lines

Coordinate pressing triggers and defensive shape with movement practices for the full unit.

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CricketAll Levels

Batting Technique Progressions

Build consistent batting fundamentals through structured practices covering stance, guard, and shot selection.

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Fully animated practices. Rated by coaches.

Every session is a complete animated practice — drills, setups and coaching points, ready to run. No placing or keyframing players by hand. New sessions added every week, and every one is rated by coaches who’ve actually run it.

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Free practice animator

Pick a theme and watch a practice play out — no dragging, no keyframing. A taste of the fully animated sessions inside.

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Community session library

Browse ready-to-run sessions by sport, age and theme — with real coach ratings so you run what works.

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Every training session, planned.

New content every week: session plans, practice diagrams, and tactical sheets for grassroots coaches. Football, cricket, and more.

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MATCHDAY

Know how you’ll play before you get out of the car

This is where the week lands. Pick the shape you play and what you expect from the opposition, and you get a handful of cards — what is happening, what it opens up, and two or three things to say to your players.

It won’t tell you the right answer. It helps you recognise the situation and say something useful.

Matchday is football to begin with. Practices already cover cricket too.

Format
7v7
Age
U10
Us
2-3-1
Them
3-2-1
Situation
They press high
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Starting plan

Our starting shape

US
GKDEFDEFMIDMIDMIDFWD

Two defenders, three across the middle, one striker.

What do I tell the players?

  • Defenders split — big and wide
  • Wingers, feet on the line
  • Head up, take a touch, then pass

What's happening?

We line up 2-3-1: two defenders, three across the middle, one striker. At U10 the whole game tends to collapse into one cluster around the ball, and the shape disappears within a minute of kick-off.

Where's the space?

The pitch is at its biggest when the two wide midfielders stay near the touchlines and the defenders split either side of the keeper. That stretches the other team and opens the middle for the central midfielder.

What do we change?

Start every goal kick with the defenders wide of the posts and the centre midfielder showing for the ball. Ask the wide players to hold their line until the ball comes to them.

Why this card?

We don't have this exact matchup yet. This covers the principle that applies when they press high.

Opposition change

Their 3-2-1

USTHEM
GKDEFDEFMIDMIDMIDFWDGKDEFDEFDEFMIDMIDFWD

Their two midfielders cannot cover the whole width.

What do I tell the players?

  • Space is outside them, not through them
  • Switch it — look at the other side
  • Striker, come and get it

What's happening?

They play three at the back with two in midfield and one up front. Their back three is hard to get past centrally, but two midfielders cannot cover the whole width of the pitch.

Where's the space?

The space is outside their midfield pair, not through it. When their two midfielders both drift toward the ball, the opposite side of the pitch is completely empty.

What do we change?

Get the ball wide early and switch it when the far side opens up. Ask the striker to drop between their midfield and defence rather than standing on the back three.

Why this card?

We don't have this exact matchup yet. This covers the principle that applies when they press high.

Out of possession

If they press high

USTHEM
GKDEFDEFMIDMIDMIDFWDGKDEFDEFDEFMIDMIDFWD

Their midfield steps up; the space is behind them.

What do I tell the players?

  • Find the spare player
  • If they jump, play beyond them
  • Make the pitch big

What's happening?

They push their striker and both midfielders onto us as soon as we get the ball, so we are trying to play out with three opponents inside our own half.

Where's the space?

A team pressing that high leaves the space behind their midfield wide open. If we get one pass past the first presser, we are running at a back three with numbers.

What do we change?

Do not force it through the middle. The keeper or a defender goes long to the far side, or the centre midfielder drops in to make a spare player. Either way, play past the press rather than through it.

Why this card?

You're playing 2-3-1, facing 3-2-1, and selected "They press high".

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The coaching week

Your week is not one session. It is a rhythm.

  1. 01

    Tuesday

    Coach the session

  2. 02

    Saturday

    Prepare for the game

  3. 03

    Sunday

    Play with clarity

  4. 04

    After

    Think about what happened

A session plan on its own stops at Tuesday. PlayTactiq carries it through to Sunday.

For the coach you’ve got — and the players you’ve got

From first small-sided games to 11v11, PlayTactiq adapts the coaching, language and tactics to your team’s stage.

An eight-year-old’s team doesn’t get asked to protect a lead. That isn’t a setting — it’s built in.

Built for the game formats you actually coach

Matchday is live for football at 7v7 and 9v9. 11v11 is next, with the smaller formats after that. Other sports follow football.

7v7 · live9v9 · live11v11 · coming5v5 · coming

Why coaches use it

  • Built for grassroots coaches, not academies
  • Designed around real matchday decisions
  • Adapts to the age group and format you coach
  • Built for the time and the players you actually have

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One simple membership for planning training, developing your coaching and preparing for matchday.

  • Complete coaching sessions
  • Animated practices
  • Printable plans
  • Coach-development resources
  • Matchday support
  • New content every week
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