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Soccer training session planner

The soccer training planner connected to your whole season

Plan Friday's practice without separating it from the rest of the season. Keep logistics, phase, zone, objective and intensity in one record, link the session you are going to run, take attendance and come back to the recorded work to check what you actually trained.

Included from the Coach plan. The tactical board stays free.

One training record for what you are going to work on — and why

Every practice has a practical side you need to solve before stepping onto the pitch: when you train, how much time you have and where the work will take place. But it also needs to answer football questions. Which phase are you working on? In which zone? With what objective? What load are you targeting that day?

NeoTactIQ keeps those decisions together in the training record: the logistics — date, start and end time, duration, location and surface — alongside the sporting context: pitch zone, game phase, training objective and target intensity as a percentage.

If your club publishes its training timetable in NeoTactIQ (Club plan), scheduled slots appear in the calendar and you turn them into a practice with one click, with the date, time and facility already filled in.

Every practice brings logistics, cycle, zone, phase, objective and intensity together in one record.

Training record in NeoTactIQ
Date, duration, zone, phase, objective and load brought together in the training record.

Training does not live on its own: microcycle, mesocycle and macrocycle

Friday does not begin on Friday. It belongs to a week, that week belongs to a larger block, and that block has a place inside the season.

NeoTactIQ lets you structure the work through microcycles, mesocycles and macrocycles, inside one methodology per season for each team. You can plan a specific week without losing sight of what came before or what you want to develop next.

When you need a wider view, the microcycle sits inside its mesocycle and macrocycle. You can therefore move from “what are we doing on Friday?” to a more useful medium-term question: “what are we building during this period?”

Each practice is automatically assigned to its microcycle according to its date.

Methodology cycles in NeoTactIQ
The training day sits inside its microcycle and the wider structure of the season.

Microcycle objectives: give the week a clear intention

A training week should be more than a sequence of occupied days. The microcycle gives the work a common intention and connects individual practices with the priorities of the period.

For each microcycle you pick objectives and phases from a catalogue of 31 tactical contents — attacking and defensive organisation, transitions and set pieces — and assign the week’s sessions from your library.

Each practice then makes that intention specific through its own phase, zone and objective. The microcycle provides the context; the training record translates it into a particular day.

This also helps when the calendar forces a change. If you have fewer training days in a week or need to shift a priority after a match, you can still see what you intended to work on and how the revised distribution fits the cycle.

NeoTactIQ does not decide the content for you. You define the priorities and the work. The platform keeps the structure so you can return to it later.

Microcycle objectives in NeoTactIQ
Microcycle objectives organised by work family.

Link the session and take attendance at every practice

Each practice can carry a session from your library, with its warm-up, main and closing parts, or individual drills you add for that day. Attach PDF documents of up to 20 MB and download the practice sheet as a PDF for the rest of your staff.

Afterwards, take attendance player by player with codes, or mark “Everyone attended” in one go. Attendance is recorded for each player and, with Coach Pro, flows straight into their individual report.

  • A · Attended
  • FJ · Excused absence
  • FN · Unexcused absence
  • L · Injury
  • E · Illness
  • SC · Called up to an older team

Check what you actually trained

A good plan in September has limited value if, by February, you cannot check what happened to it.

The methodology dashboard shows how many practices and what share of the work go to each game phase and, within each phase, to each pitch zone. When a zone falls short it tells you: for example, that in the attack-to-defence transition the build-up zone only has 17% of the work when around 33% would be expected.

Statistics adds the average intensity, the average volume per session and the team’s weekly load.

There is no need to interpret formulas or configure thresholds. The view is there to reveal imbalances so you, as the coach, can decide whether the next microcycles need adjusting.

Shows how work is distributed across phases and zones and flags imbalances.

From the match to the next microcycle

With Coach Pro, when you close the match report you set 1 to 3 objectives for the following week and NeoTactIQ proposes them in the next microcycle of your methodology. What you saw on Sunday shapes what you train on Tuesday, without copying notes from one place to another.

Reuse drills from your library instead of rebuilding the work

Planning the week also means deciding how you will take each objective onto the pitch. If you already have drills in NeoTactIQ, you can reuse that material rather than starting from a blank slide every time, and add drills shared by other coaches at your club to your own.

The drill library keeps your designs together with their classification: phase, objectives, zone, drill type, timings and equipment. When you return to an idea you have used before, you can understand why it was created and adapt it to the current practice.

This separates two jobs that are often mixed together: planning what you want to train and designing the tactical content you will use to train it. Both live inside NeoTactIQ without leaving your best exercises scattered across folders.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use NeoTactIQ if I currently plan training on paper or in Excel?

Yes. You do not need to change the way you decide what to work on. NeoTactIQ gives that planning a structure where each practice keeps its context and can be reviewed later inside the microcycle and the wider season.

Does NeoTactIQ create training sessions for me?

No. The coach decides the objectives, phase, zone, load and content of the work. NeoTactIQ organises that information inside connected planning and lets you review how the recorded work has been distributed afterwards.

How is a practice connected to the microcycle?

Each practice is automatically assigned to its microcycle according to its date. The microcycle belongs to the season's mesocycle and macrocycle structure, and it is where you set the week's objectives and sessions.

Can I check whether I am working some phases or zones more than others?

Yes. The methodology dashboard shows how work is distributed across phases and zones and recommends what to reinforce when there is an imbalance. The decision on how to adjust future planning remains with the coach.

Can I take attendance and link the session to the practice?

Yes. Each practice can carry a session from your library or individual drills, attached PDF documents and its own PDF sheet. Attendance is taken with codes (A, FJ, FN, L, E and SC) and recorded for each player.

Plan Friday with the rest of the season in mind

You keep making the football decisions. The difference is that each practice now stays connected to the microcycle, its objectives, the session you ran, who attended and the accumulated work of the season.

Start by organising next week. Then come back to it and check what you actually trained.

Included from the Coach plan. The tactical board stays free.