The Tactx Season Planner is here

You’ve been asking us for a way to plan your season, and we’ve listened. Today we’re releasing the Tactx Season Planner. It’s a digital planner, and it’s the first of the coaching material we’ll be producing.

It’s built for coaches who train once a week and want every session to count. It takes you from the first week of the season to the last, and every session is planned, coached and reviewed the same way.

What’s inside:

• Season plan and goals

• Your squad, with a season focus for every player

• Four 8-week block plans and reviews, with player targets and player notes

• 32 sessions to plan, with four pages each: overview, two pages of practices, and coaching and review

• Each session built around the four moments of the game: in possession, defensive transition, out of possession and attacking transition

• Up to four practices per session, each with coaching points, a progression and a regression

• Your own coaching language, so players hear the same words every week

• An interventions guide to plan how you coach each word: Direct, Discussion or Discovery

• An areas and loads guide to help you set up quickly

• Reflection after every session, every block and across the season

• Season review

It works at every level, from grassroots to the professional game.

Free for all Tactx subscribers: https://tactxcoach.com/programs/tactx-season-planner-one-session-a-week

Not a subscriber? You can download the planner for £9.99: https://tactxcoach.com/programs/tactx-season-planner-one-session-a-week

If you’re using the planner, we’d love to see it in action. Share photos or screenshots of how you’re putting it to use in the comments below.

We’d also love your feedback. We’re adaptable, so tell us what would make it work better for you and we’ll work towards your needs.

3v2 Practices 04, 05 and 06 are uploaded

Practice 06 is the one to look at first. It starts with a rotation: the coach blows the whistle, the players move round anti-clockwise, and then the ball goes in for the 3v2. The progressions send them the other way, then into a different shape.

That makes 36 practices in The 3v3 Game. Practice 06 is attached below, and 04 and 05 are in the library.

New: Aston Villa v Man City – Narrow In, Narrow Out

Our latest tactical analysis is live. It's about how Emery's Villa used being narrow in and out of possession against City's man-to-man press:

• Playing through the press: the link pass, Manzambi dragging Khusanov inside, and the space either side of Jackson

• The central press and the jump: Gomez and Kamara

• A 3v3 in midfield and the space for McGinn

• The compact block: McGinn, Alysson and Manzambi's roles, and the lopsided 4-3-3

• Where the narrow shape can be weak: the early switch

The article is open to everyone. Subscribers can watch the full class, where David and Mikey go through every clip in detail.

👉 https://tactxcoach.com/programs/aston-villa-v-man-city-tactical-analysis

Which part of Villa's approach would you take into your own sessions? Let us know below.

3v2 Practice 03 is in the library

This one gives the defenders a different way to score. When they win the ball, they have to dribble it out through one of the two gates, and the coach always plays the 2nd ball to them.

That makes 33 practices in The 3v3 Game. The full practice is attached below, and 3v2 Practices 01 and 02 are there if you're working through in order.

The 3v3 Game: 3v2 Practice 02 is live

That's 32 practices in The 3v3 Game now, and the second of the 3v2s. This time the defenders have goals to aim at: when they win the ball, they go and score in one of the small goals on the opposite side.

The full practice is attached below. If you're working through the collection in order, 3v2 Practice 01 is there to go back to.

The 3v3 Game: 3v2 Practice 01 is live (Balanced overload)

The 2v2s are done and the 3v2s start here. Three attackers against two, and the coach always plays the second ball to the defending team.

The full practice is attached below. It's the latest in The 3v3 Game, the collection we're building with Peter Prickett.

PSG v Barcelona: How PSG Beat the Press

Hi everyone,

Our PSG v Barcelona analysis looks at how PSG adapted to Barcelona’s two pressing systems, using both their structure and individual quality to find solutions.

We explore Hakimi’s role, the positioning of the midfielders and how the front three played against a man-to-man press.

Alongside the article, there’s a full 35-minute class with David and Mikey, talking through some of the key points in more detail and what we can take from them as coaches.

It’s all together in the collection, available to all Tactx subscribers.

Explore the PSG v Barcelona collection

Good afternoon, 

Practices 9 & 10 are now in subscriber libraries from the 3v3 collection, and they round off the 2v2 scenarios.

There are now 30 practices in this collection, and we will continue adding 3v2 scenarios starting tomorrow.