Football: The Triangle Progression

Get your team thinking on the pitch, rather than playing as individuals. Give them the opportunity to develop their basic principles with small sided games in this skill session.

Quality of finish is the order of the day in this clinical goal scoring session - improving speed of play and striking accuracy

• Players work in pairs, with one ball per pair.
• The first player makes a square pass across the grid to their partner before running onto the cone ahead.
• Their partner then plays a pass diagonally across the grid back to their partner who is looking to run onto the ball.
• The player who started the drill then plays square across the grid again to their partner running onto the ball.
• The players work their way up to the top of the grid.

With one ball between two players have to try and pass the ball through the goals 10 times, without making a mistake.

You can run this as a competition between pairs or simply use it as a challenge to get players to focus on their passing accuracy.

This is nice variation on your regualr circle passing warm up - and gets large groups of players working at the same time (no waiting in queues).

Players on the outside have to keep moving around the outside (not allowed to stand still)

While running around they have to try and score as many points as possible against the player in the middle by passing the ball through the area to their other players.

player losing the ball goes in the middle and the game starts again.

4 players have to try and play the ball from one side of the area to the other by passing it between or around the 2 players in the middle area. 5 interceptions, then swap.