How to Create a Games-Based Football Drill

A step-by-step guide for grassroots coaches.

Most grassroots sessions fail for one simple reason:

They start with cones… not the game.

This free guide shows you how to flip that.

Inside, you’ll learn a clear, repeatable method for turning simple games kids already love or boring drills into football activities that actually develop:

• Decision-making

• Ball control

• Awareness & scanning

• Confidence under pressure

All without boring drills, long lines, or over-coaching.

This isn’t theory.

It’s the exact approach we use every week with 1,100+ children, refined over 10+ years of real coaching.

What you’ll learn inside:

• What “games-based” training really means (and what it doesn’t)
• The key ingredients every football activity should include
• How to scale games for beginners through to advanced players
• How to increase realism without killing fun
• How to adapt playground games into sessions that actually transfer to matchday

You’ll see a simple game broken down step-by-step - from a fun starting point, through multiple progressions - so you can apply the same thinking to any session you run.

Who this guide is for:

• Grassroots coaches
• Volunteer & parent coaches
• PE teachers
• Anyone fed up with drills that look tidy but don’t work

No fancy equipment.

No complicated patterns.

Just better sessions.

Why this guide is free

This ebook is the foundation of how we coach.

If this way of thinking clicks with you, you’ll love our other ebooks where we go much deeper with ready-to-use, games-based activities you can plug straight into your sessions.

But start here. Download the guide.

See if it changes the way you think about coaching.

Free download - instant access