Built for grassroots coaching
Youth Football Coaching Tools - Explain Tactics Visually
Explaining a defensive shape to an under-10 is different from coaching a senior team. The concepts need to be simple, the visuals need to be clear, and the explanation often has to happen quickly with a phone in hand and little time before kick-off.
FTB is a free online tactics board designed for exactly that. It works on any device, opens instantly, and requires no account or download.
Free to use. No account required. Works on phone, tablet, and desktop.
FTB Board
Good on phone, tablet, and desktop
Useful for school sessions
Easy to share with players and parents
Built for real session planning
Shape, movement, and sharing all live in one board, so the page promise matches the product.
40+
templates
5v5-11v11
formats
Instant
browser start
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Show, don't just tell
Young players often understand movement better than long verbal descriptions. Showing a striker when to press, where to drop into space, or how to support a teammate in possession is faster and more effective with a visual aid.
FTB lets you draw passing moves, player runs, and dribble paths on a realistic football pitch. Ghost markers show where players end up after a move, and you can chain further arrows from those positions to build multi-step sequences.
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Supports all youth formats
Grassroots football uses many different team sizes, and FTB covers them all.
5v5
Typical for under-7 and under-8 formats.
7v7
Common from under-9 to under-11.
9v9
Standard for under-12 and under-13.
11v11
Used from under-14 upward and into the adult game.
More than 40 formation templates are built in, with automatic layout fallback for formats without a named template.
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Useful for PE teachers and school coaches
FTB is a practical tool for PE sessions that include tactical elements. Set up a small-sided scenario, draw a pressing structure or crossing pattern, and show it on a screen or tablet without asking a school device to install anything.
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Save your best sessions and share them
Save a completed board under a name and reload it before your next session or match. Over time you can build a library of drills, patterns, and set pieces. Free use covers local saves, while cloud sync across devices is planned as a Pro feature.
You can also generate a short link and send it to parents or players by WhatsApp or email. Recipients get a live, interactive copy of the board, or you can export an image for documents and briefings.
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