Adapted games take a playground game — tag, treasure hunt, knock-down targets — and add a ball and a football rule. Young players get hundreds of touches without noticing they are practising.
They are the backbone of U6 to U10 sessions, and older players enjoy them as a warm-up or a light end to the week.
7 exercises
Football-adapted game
Two teams race to dribble balls from the treasure in the middle to their base, then steal from each other. A favourite with U6 to U10 players.
BeginnerIntermediateFun Games
Possession game
Two teams in a 25 × 20 m area. The team with the ball counts its passes out loud; ten in a row scores a point. The classic keep-ball game.
BeginnerGlobalFun Games
Football-adapted game
Every player dribbles their own ball in a 15 × 15 m square, protects it and tries to knock the other balls out. Nobody is eliminated.
BeginnerGlobalFun Games
Football-adapted game
Two teams in their own half pass along the ground to knock down the opponents' cones while blocking shots at their own. Simple rules, lots of passes.
BeginnerIntermediateFun Games
Football-adapted game
2v2 over a line of cones on a 12 × 6 m court: one bounce and up to three touches per team. Ball control and volleys at a low intensity.
IntermediateIntermediateFun Games
Football-adapted game
Children move like the animal the coach calls — bear, frog, crab, flamingo — and dribble a ball when they hear “Balls!”. Mobility and coordination for the youngest.
BeginnerAnalyticalFun Games
Circuit
A 6-minute cool-down for U6 to U10: the coach tells a jungle story and each animal is a stretch — giraffe, flamingo, frog, cat, snake and turtle.
BeginnerAnalyticalStretching & Cool-Down