Which coaching approaches are worth exploring for your team?

Answer seven questions about your age group, time, experience and space. This transparent, rules-based guide suggests approaches to explore. It is not a validated assessment or a universal ranking, and you do not need an account to see the result.

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For a coach who answered U11 · twice a week · shared pitch:

Closest fit

Teaching Games for Understanding

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Starts with a modified small-sided game and tactical questions, and only isolates a technique once players understand the problem it solves.

Also fits

Constraints-Led Approach

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Shapes learning by changing the rules, space, numbers or equipment of a practice, rather than by stopping play to give instructions.

Worth exploring

Horst Wein's Youth Development Model (FUNiño)

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Age-graded small-sided game formats, most recognisably FUNiño (3v3 on four mini-goals, no goalkeeper, for the youngest age groups), designed to force width, options and decision-making before players are introduced to full-sided football.

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