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Soccer drills, games, and exercises to improve your teams skills and techniques. Perfect for all levels, find drills for dribbling, passing, shooting, and more.

Soccer Drills, Games, and Exercises

Elevate your team’s game with soccer drills that enhance skills, speed, and teamwork. Focus on small-sided games for real match scenarios, technical drills for precision, and conditioning for endurance. Keep players engaged with our high-intensity, game-like soccer drills!

Latest Soccer Drills

Below you will find a few of the latest soccer drills posted to SoccerXpert.

Combination Crossing Drill

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.


Age: 9+ Field: HALF FIELD
Players: 10+ Focus: CROSSING
Difficulty: MEDIUM Time: 15 mins.
Goalkeeper: YES Team
Rating: 3.8 / 5 Views: 292,014
Published: 3/6/2012 Author: Chris Johnson
1v1 Defending the Dribble with Teammate

1v1 Defending the Dribble with Teammate

The purpose of this drill is to isolate the defender to focus on the first defender and defending the dribble while working with a teammate. This teaches young soccer players to work together with your teammate to shut down the attacker.


Age: 9+ Field: HALF FIELD
Players: 8+ Focus: DEFENDING
Difficulty: MEDIUM Time: 20 MINS.
Goalkeeper: YES Team
Rating: 3.8 / 5 Views: 225,054
Published: 9/6/2011 Author: Chris Johnson
Indoor Shooting Drill

Indoor Shooting Drill

This is a great indoor soccer shooting drill to use while practicing indoors. This indoor soccer shooting drill also touches on dribbling, passing, using the walls, and finally shooting on goal.


Age: 4+ Field: INDOOR
Players: 6+ Focus: SHOOTING
Difficulty: MEDIUM Time: 10 mins.
Goalkeeper: YES Team
Rating: 3.8 / 5 Views: 152,522
Published: 11/25/2010 Author: Chris Johnson
Combination Shooting Rotation Drill

Combination Shooting Rotation Drill

This soccer shooting and finishing drill focus on combination play and build-up before getting the shot off. It is a great shooting soccer drill to focus on burying the ball with a shot after a small combination play.


Age: 9+ Field: 30X30
Players: 10+ Focus: SHOOTING
Difficulty: MEDIUM Time: 15 MINS.
Goalkeeper: YES Team
Rating: 3.8 / 5 Views: 114,680
Published: 7/3/2011 Author: Chris Johnson
Alien Tag Soccer Game

Alien Tag Soccer Game

This is a fun game for 3 through 6 year-olds. This will focus on agility, vision, and awareness, but best of all, it's fun.


Age: 4-8 Field: 20X20
Players: 6+ Focus: DRIBBLING
Difficulty: EASY Time: 10 MINS.
Goalkeeper: NO Team
Rating: 3.8 / 5 Views: 347,294
Published: 1/1/2017 Author: Chris Johnson
Three Person Passing Combination

Three Person Passing Combination

This passing combination drill that involves three players 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.


Age: 9+ Field: 10X20
Players: 3 Focus: PASSING
Difficulty: MEDIUM Time: 10 MINS.
Goalkeeper: NO Team
Rating: 3.79 / 5 Views: 318,732
Published: 7/19/2012 Author: Chris Johnson
Coach's Revenge

Coach's Revenge

This drill is a fun soccer drill. It will focus a bit on young players' agility while dodging balls kicked at them and is a great ice breaker or a fun warm-up game at the beginning of practice.


Age: 4-8 Field: 25X30
Players: 4+ Focus: AGILITY
Difficulty: EASY Time: 10 mins.
Goalkeeper: NO INDIVIDUAL
Rating: 3.79 / 5 Views: 277,364
Published: 2/6/2010 Author: Chris Johnson
Defensive Speed Course

Defensive Speed Course

This soccer fitness drill is designed to improve defensive speed and quickness in front of the goal. This exercise is intended to be more of a fitness training drill than a technical or tactical defensive soccer training drill.


Age: 9+ Field: 25x40
Players: 4+ Focus: DEFENDING
Difficulty: MEDIUM Time: 20 MINS.
Goalkeeper: YES INDIVIDUAL
Rating: 3.79 / 5 Views: 135,920
Published: 4/21/2009 Author: Chris Johnson
3v1 - Attacking the Goal

3v1 - Attacking the Goal

This attacking soccer drill focus on the attacking movement and composure in front of the goal. Players will become comfortable in front of the goal and will be able to recognize situational play.


Age: 9+ Field: 25x40
Players: 8+ Focus: ATTACKING
Difficulty: MEDIUM Time: 20 mins.
Goalkeeper: YES Team
Rating: 3.79 / 5 Views: 92,306
Published: 12/8/2005 Author: Chris Johnson
3v1 Rotating Defenders

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.


Age: 9+ Field: 10X10
Players: 6+ Focus: POSSESSION
Difficulty: MEDIUM Time: 15 MINS.
Goalkeeper: NO Team
Rating: 3.78 / 5 Views: 424,206
Published: 7/18/2012 Author: Chris Johnson
Teaching 1st Defender without Opposition

Teaching 1st Defender without Opposition

This soccer defending drill is excellent for teaching young players how to defend when they are the closest player to the opponent with the ball.


Age: 8-14 Field: 30X30
Players: 6+ Focus: DEFENDING
Difficulty: MEDIUM Time: 15 mins.
Goalkeeper: NO INDIVIDUAL
Rating: 3.78 / 5 Views: 148,381
Published: 2/7/2011 Author: Chris Johnson
4v2 and 3v1 Rondo; Finding Target Players

4v2 and 3v1 Rondo; Finding Target Players

This 4v2 and 3v1 rondo soccer drill focuses on playing the target players from the attacking third of the field.


Age: 12+ Field: 25X25
Players: 8+ Focus: POSSESSION
Difficulty: Hard Time: 15 mins.
Goalkeeper: NO Team
Rating: 3.78 / 5 Views: 107,817
Published: 12/29/2005 Author: Chris Johnson

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