Soccer Drills and Soccer Tips for Coaching Youth Soccer!

Soccer Drills

Soccer drills are important in producing a top tiered youth soccer team. Our soccer drills will allow you to create a fun and competitive soccer practice to prepare our athletes for match competition. The soccer drills we provide will excite, challenge, and encourage players when coached properly. It will be through the repetition of our soccer drills that player’s skills will be refined and perfected.

Browse thelatest soccer drills below or browse our drills by age or skill using the links on the left of this page, or search drills using our soccer drill search.

Latest Soccer Drills

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Soccer Drills Combination Shooting Drills

This is a shooting drill that focuses on combination play and building up for a shot on goal. There are multiple combination ideas to progressively make the shooting drill more difficult.

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Soccer Drills Triangle Combination Passing Drill

This is a passing drill that focuses on combination play in a small area. You can focus on pace of the pass, angle of the pass, weight of the pass, timing of the runs before and after the pass, one-two’s, and movement.

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Soccer Drills Line Passing Overlap Warm-up
This passing and overlapping warm-up soccer drill will help perfect the introduction of overlapping runs, playing off the pass, as well as teamwork through communication.
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Soccer Drills Line Passing Combination Warm-up
This combination passing drill is designed to work on combination play while advancing up the field. This will help focus on timing of passes, runs, combination play, and will be a great warm-up to passing practices.
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Soccer Drills Three Person Passing Combination
This a passing combination drill that involves 3 player at a time. The combination sequence that will help perfect passing, combination play, movement off the ball, and will help improve player’s fitness level.
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Soccer Drills 3v1 Rotating Defenders
This 3v1 game will focus on keeping possession in a tight space. Work on passing, decision making, movement on and off the ball as well as improve communication.
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Soccer Drills Circle Passing Overlap Combination
The circle passing overlap combination drill will focus on passing, combination play, overlapping, playing with speed, and playing to feet. This is a great passing warm-up drill that can be a great start to a passing practice that incorporates overlapping.
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Soccer Drills Circle Passing Combination Drill
The circle passing combination drill will focus on passing, communication, playing with speed, and playing to feet. This is a great passing warm-up drill that can be a great start to a passing practice.
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Soccer Drills Combination Crossing Drill
This combination crossing and finishing drill will focus on crosses within the 18 and is designed to help players become comfortable on crosses inside the 18.
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Soccer Drills Combination Shooting with Dummy Run
This combination shooting drill focuses on shooting and finishing within the 18. It starts with a dummy run stepping over the ball, then a combination play ending with a shot on goal.

Top Rated Soccer Drills

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Soccer Drills 3v2 Flying Changes
This drill is designed to focus on all aspects of the game in a 3v2 situation. Mainly runs of attackers, angle of support, passing vs. shooting decisions, defensive shape, and recovery runs, along with working on mental attentiveness.
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Soccer Drills 2v2+4 Passing, Possession, Combination
This 2v2+4 soccer drill will focus on passing, possession, and combination play. This is a great small sided soccer game when you want to perfect composure of players in tight spaces.
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Soccer Drills Ouch!
This drill should be used with younger players (U6 and U8) to introduce dribbling, looking up and properly striking the ball ball at a target. And best of all, it's FUN!
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Soccer Drills Four Corners Passing Game
The Four Corners Passing Game is a great soccer drill to focus on passing, changing the point of the attack, and timing of runs and passes.
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Soccer Drills 4v4 Zone Game
This possession soccer drill will helps players keep possession for a purpose with short/long passing combinations. Also allows one to focus on defensive transition by quickly close down space and eliminate passing lanes.
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Soccer Drills Angle of Support Possession Drill
This soccer passing drill is a great drill for teaching young players angle of support and spacing.
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Soccer Drills The Numbers Game
This drill focuses on the 1v1 situational play for younger players. This focuses on the individual dynamics of this game such as dribbling, shooting, shielding, turning and beating an opponent.
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Soccer Drills Pirates of the Pugg
This soccer drill is a great soccer drill using a Pugg Goal that can be tweaked to focus on many aspects of the game. For younger players ages 8-11, the primary focus should be on good dribbling technique in traffic which requires vision and awareness. The coach can also focus on transition from offense to defense if the ball is lost, or recovering from a tackle and finding safety. Defensively, this allows defenders to steal the ball from attackers and play to a particular goal or target.
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Soccer Drills 4v3 Attack vs. Defense
This attacking soccer drill is a great drill to focus on finishing. Since the attackers have the numerical advantage, they should learn how to exploit their advantage and finish with a shot on goal.
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Soccer Drills Sharks and Minnows
This drill focuses on the U6 and U8 player and their ability to dribble out of pressure. This drill can be used to focus on the player using their body to protect the ball by placing their body in between the ball and the defender.

Most Viewed Soccer Drills

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Soccer Drills Pirates of the Pugg
This soccer drill is a great soccer drill using a Pugg Goal that can be tweaked to focus on many aspects of the game. For younger players ages 8-11, the primary focus should be on good dribbling technique in traffic which requires vision and awareness. The coach can also focus on transition from offense to defense if the ball is lost, or recovering from a tackle and finding safety. Defensively, this allows defenders to steal the ball from attackers and play to a particular goal or target.
4.08
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Soccer Drills Ouch!
This drill should be used with younger players (U6 and U8) to introduce dribbling, looking up and properly striking the ball ball at a target. And best of all, it's FUN!
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Soccer Drills The Numbers Game
This drill focuses on the 1v1 situational play for younger players. This focuses on the individual dynamics of this game such as dribbling, shooting, shielding, turning and beating an opponent.
4.06
out of 189
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227337 Views
Soccer Drills Four Corners Passing Game
The Four Corners Passing Game is a great soccer drill to focus on passing, changing the point of the attack, and timing of runs and passes.
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206804 Views
Soccer Drills Sharks and Minnows
This drill focuses on the U6 and U8 player and their ability to dribble out of pressure. This drill can be used to focus on the player using their body to protect the ball by placing their body in between the ball and the defender.
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Soccer Drills Four Corners Aggressiveness and Fitness Drill
This soccer drill focuses on aggressiveness in winning 50/50 balls and fitness. This drill will be more beneficial for players under 8 and older.
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Soccer Drills 1v1 50/50 to Goal Team Competition
The purpose of this soccer drill is to work on soccer fitness, scoring soccer goals, soccer shooting, soccer goalkeeping, and winning 50-50 balls. This is a fun soccer drill for the younger soccer player.
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Soccer Drills Split the Defenders Passing Game
This soccer drill is great for a little more advanced player from 11 years old to 14 years and focuses on passing to split two defenders.
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Soccer Drills Crossing, Finishing, Shooting Drill
This soccer drill is a great training tool to perfect crossing, finishing and heading in soccer. Check out more soccer drills, soccer crossing drills, soccer finishing drills and soccer heading drills.
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Soccer Drills Guard the Castle
This drill is a great small sided game that focuses on passing in numbers up situations This is a fun drill and the kids will love it!

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