Session planner

Plan sessions as easily as pen and paper

Create diagrams, practices and full sessions in minutes. Our engineers and coaching experts built a session planner you can open and use straight away, with no manual needed, and as much storage as you'll ever need.

The Coaching Manual session planner diagram creator

The Diagram Creator

Clear, professional diagrams your players can follow, built with a simple drag-and-drop interface. Every tool is on screen; nothing is hidden in menus.

  • 18 pitch templates, including full pitch, 4-goal game, blank canvas and futsal
  • Two themes: The Coaching Manual or US Soccer Federation style
  • All the kit you need: players, equipment, shapes and lines in multiple colours
  • Automatic icon scaling, so space looks true to life on every pitch
  • Player labels for shirt numbers or initials
  • One-click progressions with the duplicate tool
  • Plus: text, alignment grid, image export, landscape printing and keyboard shortcuts
Building a diagram in the session planner

The Practice Creator

For the detailed coach. Add a title, age group, theme and duration, and build a practice template of your own, just like the ones you browse on The Coaching Manual.

  • Embed your diagrams straight from the Diagram Creator
  • Upload your own images, including pen-and-paper sketches or diagrams from other tools
  • Add coaching points and progressions with headings, lists, images and YouTube or Vimeo videos
  • Print a clean layout, however much detail you include
A finished practice in the practice creator

Organise, share and improve

Once a practice is saved, it's ready to share. Add it to a folder to keep your content organised and share it with your team, then use comments to get feedback on how it went and refine it for next time.

The Coaching Manual platform in a browser

"The platform is easy to navigate and the session plans are informative and easy to follow. A must for all aspiring coaches."

Darren Cole, Director of Football, Rochester City FC
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