Cover of “The Football Coach’s Season Planner” by Zé: a clipboard with a September calendar, a small tactics pitch, cones and a ball on a green pitch background

Printed pages of the planner on a wooden table: the cover, a completed session plan and a match sheet, with a pencil and two orange marker discs

Completed session plan for U8–U9s: “Taxi rank” warm-up, games, a 4v4 end-zone game and a cool-down, each with its own pitch diagram

Blank match sheet: date, opponents, a pitch for the starting line-up, score by period and a playing-time grid for 16 players

August calendar page: a six-week grid to date yourself, with boxes for the theme of the month, matches and festivals, and things not to forget

What’s in the PDF: 111 A4 pages, 36 session plans, 24 match sheets, 11 calendar pages, 6 attendance registers and 16 player progress records

Football coach season planner

Your whole football season organised, August to June

Calendar, 36 session plans, 24 match sheets, attendance registers and player progress: a 111-page A4 PDF to print at home.

36 sessions, 24 matches: your team’s season on paper

The season planner for grassroots coaches, U7 to U13: blank sheets, a completed example, attendance, tournaments and an end-of-season review.

Season overview and a page for every month
Match sheets with a playing-time grid
111-page A4 PDF to print

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The season lives on scraps of paper

The fixtures are in an email, attendance is on your phone and the session plan is on the back of an envelope. On Saturday nobody remembers who played least last week, and by June there is hardly anything left of the season.

A planner made for grassroots football

Everything is in one PDF to print: a season overview, a page for every month, session plans, match sheets, attendance registers, tournament sheets and player progress. One page sums up the age groups and match formats in England for 2026/27.

What's inside

The whole season in one place
An overview from August to June, a page for every month, the fixture list, the team sheet, contacts and equipment.
Sessions ready to fill in
36 plans with warm-up, games, match play and cool-down, each with a blank pitch to draw on. A completed example shows you how.
Every child plays
Every match sheet has a playing-time grid for each period. One page explains, with a worked example, how to share the periods fairly between all the children.
Progress without comparing
16 progress records, filled in at the start, middle and end of the season, with a simple 1 to 4 scale and one goal at a time.

How it works

1
After payment, download the PDF from the link sent to you by email.
2
Print the season pages, then the sheets you need, on A4, or on US Letter with “Fit to page”.
3
Fill it in with a pencil week by week and print more sheets whenever you run low.

Compared to the usual way

	The season planner	The usual way
Calendar	Season overview and a page per month	Dates scattered across emails and messages
Sessions	One sheet per session, with diagrams	Planned in your head at the last minute
Playing time	A grid per period on every match sheet	Hard to check afterwards
Player progress	Three check-ins per child each season	Memories, nothing written down

Specifications

Format: PDF, 111 pages: colour cover, licence page and the 109 pages of the planner
Page size: A4 (21 × 29.7 cm)
Printing: At home, in black and white (colour cover). On US Letter: “Fit to page”
Contents: Calendar from August to June (11 months), 36 session plans, 24 match sheets, 6 attendance registers, 4 tournament sheets, 16 progress records
Who it’s for: Grassroots youth football coaches, U7 to U13
Language: English
Author: Zé, Éditions Zé
Delivery: Download link sent by email after payment

Questions

What size are the pages? Can I print on US Letter?

The pages are A4 (21 × 29.7 cm). On a US Letter printer, choose “Fit to page”: the page shrinks slightly and everything stays easy to read.

How do I get the planner?

After payment, you receive an email with a link to download the PDF straight away. Nothing is sent by post.

Do I have to print everything?

No. Print the whole planner or just the pages you need, in black and white on a home printer. Session plans, match sheets and attendance registers can be printed again whenever you run low.

Can I share it with my club or the other coaches?

The licence covers personal and family use, as the licence page in the PDF states: you may print it as many times as you need for that use. Sharing the file (by email, online or on social media), reselling it or publishing it is not permitted.

How is it different from the football coach workbooks?

Zé’s three coach workbooks (U6-U7, U8-U9 and U7 to U13) are mainly illustrated drills. This planner organises the season: calendar, blank session plans, match sheets, attendance and player progress. They work well together.

Does it follow the FA formats?

The age-group page lists the maximum formats announced in England for 2026/27, from 3v3 at U7 to 9v9 at U12-U13. The planner is independent of The FA, and every sheet works with any format, because you draw the line-up on a blank pitch.