Session planning in minutes
Build a warm-up, drills and a game from a ready-made drill library, then follow it on your phone pitch-side. No blank page, no 10pm panic.
Free for grassroots coaches
Coach better. Kids love it.
Strike Coach is a free planning tool built for volunteer youth football coaches. Plan sessions in minutes, manage your squad, run match day and keep parents in the loop — all from your phone, pitch-side.
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- 5-min session plans
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- 3v3 to 11v11, U6–U14+
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- No cost, no ads
Saturday • U8 Tigers
Dribbling & 1v1 · 45 mins · 9 kids
The reality of grassroots
You volunteered to coach. You didn't sign up to be an admin team.
Most youth coaches are parents with a full-time job, one training slot a week and a group of kids who just want to play. The football is the easy bit — everything around it eats your evenings.
Planning at 10pm on a Friday
Scribbling drills on the back of an envelope after work, hoping it fills 45 minutes and keeps everyone moving.
Who's actually turning up?
Availability arrives by text, WhatsApp and word of mouth — then two players drop out on the morning.
Results and game time in your head
Trying to remember scores, scorers and who's had a fair share of minutes across the season.
Twelve parents, one group chat
Kick-off times, kit colours and pitch changes repeated over and over while your phone melts.
Strike Coach puts all of it in one place, so you can spend your time actually coaching.
What Strike Coach does
Everything a grassroots coach juggles, in one friendly app
Squad management that stays tidy
Every player, contact and availability in one list — so you know who's training and who needs a nudge before you leave the house.
Match Day, tracked as it happens
Log line-ups, goals and results in a couple of taps, and keep game time fair without a notebook full of tallies.
Player of the Week & Man of the Match
Celebrate the kids who impress — in training or on match day. Give a shout-out that shows up right on their parent's phone.
Park Session generator
Parents get a ready-made mini practice to do one-on-one with their kid at the park. Just a ball needed — no coaching experience required.
Season Setup
Plan the whole season in one sitting — set your training day, time and venue plus match days, and every week is built for you.
Multi-format support
Covers 3v3, 4v4, 5v5, 7v7, 9v9 and 11v11 from U6 to U14+, with drills and sessions that automatically match your team's format and age group.
Coach Chat & Parent Messages
A private chat just for your coaching team, one-way Team Updates when you only need to announce, plus private 1-to-1 threads so a parent can quietly ask you something directly.
Push notifications
Never miss a schedule change, cancellation, or your child's Player of the Week moment — straight to your phone.
Attendance tracking
See real attendance and match appearances build up over the season, not just who was expected.
Emergency contact & safety info
Optional emergency contact and medical notes, visible only to your team's coaches — because safety matters on match day.
Multi-coach support
Share your team with your assistant or a stand-in coach. If you can't make Tuesday, the session plan is already there for them.
Parent access
Parents see results, shout-outs and messages, and confirm availability themselves — which quietly ends the group-chat pile-up.
Built by a coach, for coaches
Simple enough to use with cold hands, one eye on the pitch and nine kids asking if they can play a match yet.
Who it's for
Made for the coach with a whistle, a bag of bibs and 45 minutes
If you run a youth team on a Tuesday evening and play on a Saturday morning, Strike Coach was designed around your week.
- Volunteer head coaches running a single team
- Assistant coaches and stand-ins sharing the load
- Club coordinators helping several teams get organised
Formats supported today
Strike Coach covers the full FA youth pathway — from first-ever 3v3 sessions at U6/U7 all the way through to 11v11 at U14 and above.
3v3
U6 / U7
4v4
U7 / U8
5v5
U8 / U9
7v7
U9 / U10
9v9
U11 / U12
11v11
U13+
You won't outgrow it
Drills, sessions and match day tools adapt automatically as your team ages up through every format.
A look inside
See it on your phone
Built to be used pitch-side, with cold hands and one eye on the game.
Today's Session
A ready-made plan for every training session
My Squad
Track your whole squad, season after season
Match Day
See how your season's going at a glance
Get your next session sorted tonight
Sign up free, add your squad and build your first training plan in about five minutes. No card, no catch.
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