What Is The Coaching Manual?

Introducing a unique online resource crammed with high quality, user-friendly videos and other resources, ideal for football coaches of all levels, from Sunday morning volunteers and parents to UEFA-qualified Academy staff.

Grassroots football is so important to us. From players to parents, to teachers and qualified coaches, we form a community of millions of people coaching, teaching, volunteering or playing football. The Coaching Manual is a revolutionary video library, created for the members of that community. We are ordinary people with the extraordinary responsibility of passing on knowledge to the next generation of players.

Our aim is simple. To provide grassroots football coaches of all levels with the tools, resources, behaviours and confidence to keep on developing their coaching knowledge. Enriching the ‘football experience’ for all of their players.

See exactly how expert communicators deliver sessions, progressions and technical information to real players. 

Join The Coaching Manual today to add hundreds of practice ideas to your toolkit and be a more confident coach.

Access a Coaching Session Library

Join Today to get hundreds of session ideas in broadcast-quality HD video.

See the coaching style, interventions and use of language as well as the layout, progressions and technical points. There’s no better preparation for your session than watching the practices delivered by expert coaches.

When you join you’ll get instant access to all these sessions and many more:

• Receiving To Play Forward
• Creating Space
• Combination Play
• Receiving & Turning
• Dribbling & Running With The Ball
• Possession
• Passing & Receiving
• Playing Under Pressure
• Movement
• Crossing & Finishing
• Spatial Awareness
• Attacking Overloads
• Dribbling 1v1/2v2
• Pressing In The Final Third
• Defending Crosses
• Goalkeeping

Join Now and start exploring the session library straight away.

Develop Your Coaching Style

Successful sessions depend on so much more than the location of your balls, bibs and cones.

That’s why The Coaching Manual is much more than a simple library of drills. It’s a window in to one of the UK’s most productive Academies, which let’s you observe expert age-specific coaches deliver sessions to real kids.

This means when you join The Coaching Manual you get to witness the explanations, coaching methods, intervention styles, language, individual challenges, progressions and adaptations the coach makes during their session to ensure every child is learning as much as possible.

Join Today to get instant access to our video library and you can start picking up these nuggets ready for your next session.

Principles of Play, Key Factors, Fine Details

Whether you’re a coach gunning for a championship or a parent looking to help your child in the garden, The Coaching Manual’s nuggets will help you understand what to look for in games and what to say to your young players to improve their performance.

Our Guides section includes key factors and fine details for:

Dribbling, Turning, Shielding, Passing, Receiving, Finishing, Fast-Break Attacking, Build-up Play, Transitions, Individual Defending, Team Defending, Goalkeeping, Set Plays and Systems of Play (Formations).

Join Today and can have all coaching points to hand no matter which session you deliver.

The Coaching Manual also provides resources you can share directly with your players. Let your kids learn the Perfect Volley from Wayne Rooney or the Principles of Defending from Vincent Kompany, plus set them game-related practices designed to develop intelligent players.

Take The Stress Out Of Session Planning

Every coach knows the importance of planning their practices, sessions and season plan. But it’s often hard to find the time to do it thoroughly. That’s why we’ve done the legwork and produced great looking plans with all the organisation, progression and key factors included.

You can select individual games or full sessions as and when you need them, or you can follow our age-appropriate season plans week-by-week.

Our weekly syllabus has been developed by some of Europe’s most highly-qualified and experienced educators to maximise the development of young players in the limited time coaches have available. It follows the Long-Term Player Development model (the four corners) so your players get the best possible training at the right time, and because it’s online it is always evolving to stay on the cutting-edge of effective practice.

Unlike other services, viewing your sessions isn’t restricted to any one device or format. In fact you can access all your sessions on any device with an internet connection, download and store sessions offline or take hard-copies of our print-ready sessions to the field. All the information is always there whenever you need it. See A Sample Practice Plan.

Join Today for instant access to our session library and all of our ready-to-print practice plans.

Get Expert Advice

Even the world’s greatest coaches will tell you they never stop learning, and no wonder, as new research and coaching best practices are evolving so quickly these days.

That’s why we created our Resources section; to provide straightforward, practical advice to help coaches develop their players’ technical, tactical, physical and psychosocial skills.

Our members get access to all our articles; including coaching tips, sport science discoveries and interviews with some of the country’s most experienced coaches. From Rafael Benitez’s Analysis of Spanish Youth Development to Les Reed’s views on positions in youth football to Sport Scientist’s advice on Diet, Fitness and Injury Prevention – our guides provide grassroots coaches access to world-leading experts.

When you join we’ll even bundle the best tips together and send you a convenient email newsletter so you never miss a vital nugget of information.