FA Level 1 Online Coaching Resource

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FA Level 1: Organisation to coach the Technique of Attacking Heading. Server moves up and down the touchline, varies the angle of cross.

Football Coaching FA Level 1 Badge / Coaches Chalkboard

The server throws the ball for one of the forwards to make a timed, angled run to attack the near post. Forwards to communicate

Football Coaching / FA Level 1 Coaching Awards

The ball is now served for an attacker to time their run to attack the far post area, near post forward spins for knock downs.

Have you already taken you Football Association Level 1 coaching qualification and hold the FA level 1 badge and want ideas on how to progress as a football coach, using the knowledge base and qualification you have already gained? Are you thinking of progressing to the Football Association Level 2 qualification or taking the Football Association Level 1 age appropriate course?

Are you thinking of taking the FA Level 1 coaching qualification and want some ideas and sessions to practice in preparation for the course?

Here at Grassrootscoaching.com, we have concentrated on improving and expanding the practical football curriculum of the FA Level 1 coaching course. For those football coaches who have or will take the FA Level 1 coaching qualification, you will be given a resource that explains and outlines a series of basic coaching drills. The idea of these coaching drills is to give you a visual resource that will assist you in your final practical assessment and to assist you with your general coaching.

We have taken these original coaching drills and created a series of coaching videos and printable PDF's which add progressions and challenges to these original drills and bridge the gap between FA Level 1 and Level 2 badges. For those who have or are considering taking the Football Association Level 2 coaching course, we have shown how these FA Level 1 drills can be linked into the practical curriculum of the FA Level 2 course. There are over 50 coaching videos (over 4 hours). Each category of coaching videos has a number of progressions that enables the coach to test the players, add challenges and games and to make the session fun and interesting for the players. The Grassroots FA Level 1 coaching resource covers the following areas:

Coaching Categories	Grassrootscoaching FA Level 1 coaching videos
Shooting and Finishing	Diamonds Waves
Passing and Receiving	Waves Find a Friend Through the gate Moves in twos
Defending	Diamonds Target Through the gate
Support and Combination Play	Moves in twos Waves Through the gate
Running with the ball	See it so it Traffic Lights Target Waves
Dribbling and Turning	Traffic Lights Through the gate Diamonds
Create Space	Waves Moves in Twos Find a Friend Target

Regardless of whether you are considering taking the FA Level 1 course or are already hold an FA Level 1 badge, what you have learnt or will learn on the football level 1 course will inspire you to open your eyes to what you could achieve as coaches and provide a foundation and motivation to progress as coaches. Like so many things in life, this introductory level to coaching leaves football level 1 coaches wanting more. They want to stretch themselves as coaches and to provide drills for their players that will not only be fun, safe and organised, but will also test, develop and improve their players.

The FA Level 1 award provides a great base to progress as a coach. The FA Level 1 course offers candidates the opportunity to practice and understand the following:

How to plan, organise and apply health and safety principles for FA Level 1 coaching sessions and drills.
How to let the game be the teacher and how when coaching Level 1 drills to make sure the emphasis is on ensuring the players have fun and enjoy themselves.
When coaching Level 1 sessions, how to progress the sessions and challenge the players with due regards to the age and abilities of the players

The practical curriculum of Coaching Level 1 sessions covers all the basics of coaching football, such as:

Coaching Level 1 - Game Understanding Defence
FA Level 1 coach - Goalkeeping
FA Level 1 coaching - Heading
FA Level 1 courses to coach - Combined Play
Football Level 1 - Mini Soccer
Coaching Level 1 - Game understanding attack
FA Level 1 coaching - Turning
FA Level 1 courses to coach - Pass and control
FA Level 1 award to develop Shooting
FA Level 1 coaching - Combination Play 2 v 1 2 v 2

Grassrootscoaching.com have designed a series of coaching sessions and drills that help bridge the gap between the FA Level 1 courses and Level 2 coaching qualifications, by introducing sessions that encourage FA Level 1 badge holders to start to provide their players with simple, common sense technical information, which is proven to improve players performance and enjoyment. The Progressions for FA level1 content is also great for all levels of coaches, regardless of whether you have or are thinking of taking a formal coaching qualifification.

For FA Level 1 badge holders that are considering progressing on the coaching ladder, the next level, Level 2, requires coaches to provide their players with a greater understanding of the technical requirements of coaching football.

The basic premise of the Grassrootscoaching.com – Progressions to FA Level 1 – curriculum of football drills and sessions revolves around providing practices that are designed to focus on improving players specific techniques, such as ball control, turning with the ball, passing and moving, finding and creating space etc. The drills and sessions focus on players working and co-operating in groups of threes, which will assist them in matches, as just about every move in football revolves around this triangle of movement. One player passing the ball, one player receiving the ball and the third supporting the ball.

The progression to FA Level 1 award drills are structured so that they are easy to organise, are fun and challenging for the players to participate in and are flexible and adaptable to cater for any number of players. The drills can be progressed to further challenge the players and have a specific technical focus which will improve the players’ technical skills. Because they also involve three players, working and co-operating together, they provide a powerful understanding and foundation that the players will carry on into games of how to play in triangles and how the triangle shape moves, as the ball moves.

From a coaching Level 1 perspective, the sessions provide logical and progressive technical information that you can impart to your players to improve their performance. But they also throw a great deal of initiative on the players to work things out for themselves, to make their own decisions and to understand why and how they make these decisions. They are designed to develop the players own self learning capabilities, which arguably is the best way for players to learn and improve. The drills all have progressions which involve a degree of opposition and defending and competitions which the players will love, but will also, through the very nature of competition and challenges, further test the players’ technical performance and decisions. These competitions will really test the players ability to perform under pressure and their decision making process.

FA Level 1 Progressions

Ball Control in threes

Pass and move in threes

Find and create space in threes

Forward runs in threes

Pass and turn in threes

Passing zones in threes

Run with the ball in threes

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One of the biggest difficulties I have always found with coaching football is generating new ideas for training to keep the players interested and stimulated. Grassrootscoaching.com has over 250 animated coaching drills, so whenever I’m struggling for ideas, I log onto the site for inspiration.

Andy Hessenthaler – Player Manager Dover Athletic FC, ex player and Manager Gillingham FC

Winning is important but it shouldn't be the sole reason for playing or coaching. Striving to win is different than winning at all costs. Players need to feel like they can express and enjoy themselves by allowing this and giving them the skills to play you will create a winning team.