Côté Coach · Football

Coaching football, from U6 to seniors

A free knowledge base built on documents published by the IFAB, FIFA, UEFA, the FFF, ASF/SFV, J+S/OFSPO and the URBSFA. Every figure quoted comes from a federation document, and where the federations disagree — which is often — both positions are printed side by side.

The banner's geometric motif: the markings of half a football pitch, in gold line work on a navy ground. The banner's background is the outline of half a football pitch, drawn in gold line work on the brand navy at low opacity. Reading across it you can make out the upper and lower touchlines, a penalty area with the smaller goal area nested inside it and the penalty arc bulging outwards, the vertical halfway line, the centre circle with its kick-off spot, and a second, mirrored penalty area at the far end. There is no photograph and no illustrated character — pitch markings only. The motif is decorative and carries no measurement: the only numbers in the banner are spelled out beside it — how many drills are published, how many guides there are, and how many countries are compared.
Côté Coach · Football

What the federations actually publish about youth football

France, Switzerland and Belgium side by side. Formats, goal sizes, heading, injury prevention — sourced, dated, comparable.

76 published drills
7 guides
3 countries compared

Pick an age group

Priorities change completely from one band to the next, and not the same way in every country.

Do

  • Build running with the ball, passing and orientated control — this is the band where technique settles
  • The 1v1 duel, attacking and defending: the URBSFA structures it as a ladder (items 24-45 of its Opleidingsvisie 2025)
  • Small-sided games with many ball contacts rather than long analytic stations

Avoid

  • Treating the format as given: a 12-year-old plays 8v8 in France and Belgium, 7v7 in Switzerland
  • Unlimited heading: the FFF caps it at 15 minutes per session from U10 to U17
  • Physical loading before the growth spurt

Session generator

Age band, duration, theme — and a minuted outline. All 76 drills come from a published federation document.

    The drills

    Filter by theme. Each drill carries the set-up its federation published.

    The guides

    Age groups and match formats The three national ladders side by side: pitch, goal, ball, duration, per band and per country. Building a session Three J+S sessions published minute by minute, the 45-min school format, and the GAG model. Technique: ball mastery, passing, finishing The technical repertoire, and the only named skill move that appears inside a federation exercise. Duels and defending The 1v1, the Belgian defending ladder, and pressing as FIFA publishes it. Goalkeeping The eight seconds, the corner, and what federations actually publish about the position. Physical preparation and injury prevention 11+, hamstrings, heading: the numbers, with their confidence intervals. Laws and equipment The 2026/27 Laws, the clause that makes 8-a-side legal, and goal safety.
    These drills are in Paak

    The generator above also lives inside the app, on the session itself: pick the age band, the duration and the theme, and Paak builds a five-block minuted outline from this same library of 76 drills. Edit it, save it to the session — that is free. Printing the session sheet and club-authored drills beyond 5 are available in Paak One.

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