Developing & Delivering Excellent Football Coaching Sessions

Good football coaches understand how to create excellent training session for their players. Great coaches understand how to link them to something bigger. They link sessions to a wider curriculum, ensure they support age-appropriate development, and fit the long-term journey of the player.

This short course is for ambitious youth coaches working in academy or grassroots football who want to move beyond copying ‘drills’ and start designing sessions with real purpose. You’ll explore how to create training that is engaging, effective, and connected to clear developmental outcomes.

What You’ll Explore

🔗 How to link every session to something bigger
⚽ Building a balanced training diet with the right session types
🆚 Explore unopposed vs opposed, isolated and game-based practices
🧠 Designing sessions that are implicitly excellent, then adding explicit coaching
🎯 How to make sessions age-appropriate, relevant, and challenging for your players

The Lessons:

1️⃣ Lesson 1 - Released 21 June 2026

2️⃣ Lesson 2 - Released 28 June 2026

3️⃣ Lesson 3 - Released 5 July 2026

4️⃣ Lesson 4 - Live (& Recorded) 12 July 2026

If you want your sessions to have more clarity, more impact, and stronger links to player development, this course will give you practical ideas you can use immediately.

Places will be limited — and coaches serious about improving won’t wait around.

Lead Presenter: Ray Power

Ray Power is an experienced coach educator, UEFA-qualified coach, and internationally respected youth development specialist. He is the author of Making the Ball Roll, a leading book on children’s football coaching. Ray has worked across academy, grassroots, and international environments, helping coaches design better sessions and better learning experiences for young players.