Football First

Tactics board

5 questions and answers about “Tactics board” in Football First, the app for football clubs and youth academies.

How do I draw a tactic or a drill?

For coaches and staff

Open Tactics and click New board (for a match) or New drill (for training). On the board:

  • move players and the ball with Move; Formation places them all at once
  • draw Pass, Run, Dribble, Shot, Curve, Line, zones and text
  • Equipment has cones, discs, poles, mannequins, mini goals, ladders and hurdles
  • Set pieces has ready-made corners and free kicks

When done click Save.

How do I animate a tactics board or download a picture of it?

For coaches and staff

Click + Frame: the current frame is copied as the next step. Move players and the ball, add more frames and click Play; set the speed with the slider.

Image downloads the current frame as a PNG, and Video records the animation and downloads it, e.g. to send to players.

How do I share a board with players?

For coaches and staff

On the board click Name & sharing, pick the team and who sees it: staff only, the whole team or chosen players. Players and their parents get a notification, and Tactics appears in their menu, where they can play the animation.

Only the author and the admin can change a board. Other coaches can Save as copy.

The coach sent me a tactics board. Where is it?

For parents and players

Open Tactics in the menu (on a phone under More). It lists every board the coach shared with you; open one and click Play for the animation. The Tactics menu item only appears once a coach has shared something with you.

What if I close a board without saving?

For coaches and staff

Changes are kept as a draft in this browser. When you open the board again the app restores them ("Your unsaved changes from last time are back"), or you can Discard changes. The browser also asks before closing if you haven't saved.

The draft only exists on that device, so click Save before switching to another one.