Your Ready-made Pre-Season Plans

The Coaching Manual

Jul 7th 2023

Written by The Coaching Manual

Are you providing pre-season training for your players? We're here to help! In this article we take a look at the sessions that we have released (so far) in our easy-to-use The Coaching Manual Pre-Season Plans!

These tailored season plans will help you deliver the best pre-season program, not only to help your players improve but also you as a coach. We've made these plans as easy for volunteer coaches to follow as possible, with Premium sessions that are developmentally appropriate, fun, simple to deliver - and based on the actual game of soccer.

Your players are sure to hit the ground running in the new season.

Check out the weekly sessions below to get started at the click of a button!

WEEK 1

SESSION 1

Use this session to develop your players' passing, receiving and movement early in your pre-season - while working to improve endurance and power base using game specific movements and actions

SESSION 2

Continue to develop passing, receiving and forward movements while also working on transitions in this second session.

WEEK 2

SESSION 1

This skill practice develops receiving skills under pressure, while working to improve endurance and power base using game specific movements and actions

SESSION 2

This skill practice develops receiving skills under pressure and retaining possession whilst also looking to turn.

WEEK 3

SESSION 1

This skill practice develops receiving skills under pressure, while working to improve endurance and power base using game specific movements and actions

SESSION 2

This skill practice develops receiving skills under pressure and retaining possession whilst also looking to turn.

WEEK 4

SESSION 1

This session can be incorporated into your pre-season and works on playing out from the back, introducing the movements players will use in a game, and providing players with lots of touches of the ball.

SESSION 2

Introduce players to the concept of pressing from the front.

Keep your eyes peeled for next week's Pre-Season session, and get all the content with a Premium Subscription.

The majority of the sessions on The Coaching Manual follow the Play-Practice-Progress-Play theory, including those on our ready-made season plans. 

In this article, we discuss how to use Play-Practice-Progress-Play and the importance of this type of session in your training. Click here.

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