Soccer drills and skills
This season, never hunt around for a fresh soccer drill again. Get proven and easy to use drills for all groups and abilities with Soccer Coach Weekly. As a coach, it is your job to give your team the skills and technique to be great players.
The soccer drills in this section will help you coach your players in the core skills of the game. We’ll tell you what to look out for, how to get the ideas over to your players, and we’ll give you games and exercises to really power-up their skills.
Drills by skill
Drills by age group
in Attacking, Tactics
In this five-week series we will show you how to move play through the thirds to get the ball into positions where your strikers can attack and score more goals MORE
in Attacking, Midfield
Use this session to encourage your players to get the ball wide in order to open up the pitch for an attacking move and to create more scoring opportunities MORE
in Passing, Practice plans
This session is a multi-themed game that improves your team’s ability to be patient in possession of the ball. MORE
in Defending, Practice plans
A team needs to be united in defence when under pressure. The focus of the session is defending with two banks of four players. These players work together to reduce space for the opposition to attack and create goalscoring opportunities. MORE
in Attacking, Midfield
If you want to score more goals, use this activity to teach your players to develop solid midfield passing and to attack with the help of wide midfielders MORE
in Ball Control and Footwork, Email newsletters
Even in a fluent passing team, the most obvious way to take a game to the opposition is with your players carrying the ball forward and looking to exploit the space in front of them. Try these sessions to help you coach your players MORE
in Attacking, Ball Control and Footwork
An end-to-end game to teach your midfielders how to pick up the ball and drive forward with it, creating attacking openings for the team in the final third of the pitch MORE
in Attacking, Passing
Fast forward movement puts pressure on the opposition as they try to win the ball back. This is a great session to show your players how to catch opponents out of position MORE
in Defending, Small Sided Games
Drill your defenders to cover each other while one of them deals with an incoming long ball that threatens your goal. Soon they’ll be experts at last-ditch defending. MORE
in Attacking, Email newsletters
Making the most of forays into the opposition final third with good combination play is key to playing soccer, yet often many teams find it difficult to make their visits into the opposition's half count. MORE
in Attacking, Tactics
In this five-week series we will show you how to move play through the thirds to get the ball into positions where your strikers can attack the ball and score more goals. This week Moving into midfield MORE
in Defending, Practice plans
If you can improve your players’ defending from crosses, fewer goals will be conceded. The session focuses primarily on the four defenders and their ability to block a cross or clear the ball from danger. MORE
in Passing, Practice plans
Teach your team how to keep possession of the ball with the purpose of playing quality forward passes and goalscoring chances will come. MORE
in Rondos, Warm Ups
This is a simple 5v2 keep away game made harder by having a triangle in the middle which the two defenders must protect or stay in the middle longer MORE
in Crossing, Email newsletters
A well-timed cross into the box is one of the finest sights in the game, but if you want your players crossing like Liverpool's Andrew Robertson or Manchester City's Leroy Sane, it’s a skill you have to work at in training. MORE
in Attacking, Small Sided Games
Use this session to teach your players how to build up from the back by working on the passing of your keeper and on the possession play of your defenders and midfielders. MORE
in Crossing, Small Sided Games
A complex soccer coaching drill to help your players develop the skills they need to deliver three kinds of cross. MORE
in Crossing, Soccer drills and skills
If you want your players to hone their crossing skills, try this non-stop training game aimed at helping them get the ball into the box at the right time. MORE
in Attacking, Small Sided Games
This session looks at improving the speed of passing moves in attacking situations. It uses fast counter-attacking as a key weapon using the quickest and most dangerous route to goal. MORE
in Defending, Email newsletters, Midfield
If you find that even the brightest of your young stars is prone to losing possession when on a surging forward run, always make sure that each member of your team understands how important it is to get the ball back as quickly as possible. MORE
in Midfield, Small Sided Games
If you want your players to understand the role of the midfield enforcer, try this challenging game to teach them how to win back possession. MORE
in Attacking, Tactics
Over the next five weeks this series will show you how to move play through the thirds to get the ball into positions where your strikers can attack the ball and score goals MORE
in Goalkeeping, Practice plans
It is important to provide training specifically for your goalkeepers. In this drill, a keeper guards three goals at the same time. It tests their mobility, positioning and shot-stopping ability. It is also very useful to have others who can play in goal so teach all your squad these skills. MORE
in Practice plans, Soccer dribbling drills
By practising taking on a defender, not only will players acquire basic dribbling skills, they’ll also learn they won’t be successful with every attempt, which is an important step towards giving them the confidence to try things in a match while removing the fear of failure. MORE
