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Tactics Soccer Drills

Knowing how best to utilize your team’s strengths, exploit your opposition’s weaknesses and create your own style of play is all controlled by tactics. Deciding where players stand, where they should run and how they should play the ball are all key tactical decisions that can define whether a game is won or lost.  

Use the tactics drills on Cupello to help you find the winning formula for your team. Coach your player's various ways of playing the ball, maximizing goal-scoring opportunities, and the organization needed to prevent conceding. By ensuring that your team has a tactical understanding and can adapt to different situations will make your team resilient, giving your players the confidence to beat any opposition they may face.

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Which formation fits best with your tactics? 1-3-2-1 at 7v7, 1-3-4-1 at 9v9 and 1-4-3-3 at 11v11.

Work with your goalkeeper and defenders to play out from the back so your team has possession.

You need tactics for defending as well as attacking – make sure all your players know what to do.

Attack from the wings whilst training tactical awareness
  • Tactics
  • 16-18

Beat a Midfield Block

Attacking from the wings when opponents pack the midfield helps team to get arou...

Difficulty

Tactical setup in diamond formation
  • Tactics
  • 13-18+

The Diamond Midfield

Working with a diamond midfield to improve the players positional understanding ...

Difficulty

Rotate positions and pass the ball
  • Tactics
  • 18+

In-Set-Go

Developing pattern play preparing to play against a team of superior ability. Ou...

Difficulty

Supporting runs out wide
  • Tactics
  • 11-15

Supporting runs out wide

Playing out from the back into midfield means players must be available to recei...

Difficulty

Free

Players counter attack 3v2
  • Tactics
  • 11-18

3v2 Counter Attack Tactics

In this drill we look at the tactics for transitions especially with turnover c...

Difficulty

Switching play to the other side of the pitch
  • Tactics
  • 11-18

Switch Play At Speed

Switching play is key to teams keeping possession when one side of the pitch is ...

Difficulty

Movement of the ball and players is key to understanding when to play through midfield
  • Tactics
  • 11-15

Tactics to Play Through Midfield

Recognising movement of players and of the ball is the best way to get players t...

Difficulty

Playing out from defence
  • Tactics
  • 11-18

Building From The Back

In this drill the coach should be looking to develop the movement of the ball be...

Difficulty

Girl Smile
  • Tactics Fun Games
  • 8-18

Noughts and Crosses Take 2

As coaches it’s important we create fun practices where we allow lots of touch...

Difficulty

Move the ball with purpose
  • Tactics
  • 8-18+

Purposeful Movement

This session is all about keeping possession and moving the ball with purpose an...

Difficulty

Passing to create goal scoring chances
  • Tactics
  • 11-18

Midfield & Winger Attacking Triangles

In this drill Alex McLeish gives coaches a way to build up play with passes out ...

Difficulty

box to box play
  • Tactics
  • 11-18+

Box-To-Box

Switching play makes the pitch larger, dragging opposition out of shape. Get pla...

Difficulty

Kids counter attack soccer
  • Tactics
  • 11-18+

Speedy Attacks

A fun session to build up possession whilst defenders pile on the pressure at sp...

Difficulty

Girl Game
  • Tactics
  • 11-18+

Create and Solve Problems

Providing players with game-based activities which are linked to problem solving...

Difficulty

Attack Girl
  • Attacking Tactics
  • 11-18+

Attack Wide to Score

A number of goals are created and scored by the ball coming from wide areas, in ...

Difficulty

Girl Tackle
  • Defending Transitions Tactics Midfield
  • 11-18+

Being Compact

Being compact when out of possession is key in stopping the opposition from play...

Difficulty

Girl Tackle
  • Defending Transitions Tactics
  • 11-18+

Defending Outnumbered 

Players face all sorts of pictures and situations in games, and it is important ...

Difficulty

Defenders soak up pressure and look to spring on the counter attack
  • Tactics
  • 11-15

Launching Counter Attacks From Deep

A classic tactic is to have two banks of defenders soaking up pressure defending...

Difficulty

Women
  • Attacking Tactics Midfield Shooting
  • 11-18+

Run's in behind

Running in behind is hard to defend as a back line, if you can get your team to ...

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Girl Defending
  • Defending Transitions Tactics
  • 11-18+

Recovery Runs

It’s important we work on players ability to recover when losing possession, a...

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