The Game Model Builder

Turn your ideas about football into a clear plan for your team.

Work through how you want your team to play, what you’ll ask of your players and how you’ll adapt when the game changes.

£27One-off paymentPDF workbook

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The Game Model Builder

PDF workbook · One-off payment

Your purchase includes:

The guided workbook with prompts, principle banks and team examples.
Two one-page templates to summarise your model in writing and on a pitch.
Guidance on adapting your approach to the score, opposition and playing conditions.
Prompts to define responsibilities around the players you actually coach.

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Total:: £27

Workbook page ten, Part four, Your Coaching Beliefs, showing the belief bank with tick-box options for creating chances and off the ball. — Part four, page ten. The belief bank, twelve beliefs to mark and three or four to keep.

Workbook page eleven, the rest of the belief bank, covering on the ball beliefs. — Page eleven, the rest of the bank.

Workbook page thirty-four, the one-page Game Model template, with ruled rows for beliefs, with the ball, without the ball, transitions, set pieces, non-negotiables and key phrases. — Part eleven, page thirty-four. The one-page model, blank, waiting for the answers you built across the previous ten parts.

Get clearer on what you’ll ask your players to do.

You might already know that you want your team to play forward quickly, press aggressively or keep possession. Building your game model means working through what those ideas look like on the pitch.

When you win the ball, what should the player in possession look for first? How should their teammates support them? When would you want them to keep the ball instead?

The workbook helps you answer those questions and connect your overall approach to the decisions you’ll coach in training.

A guided starting point

Structured prompts, principle banks and recognisable examples help you work through your ideas without starting from a blank page.

A model built around your players

Define what you need from the team, each unit and individual players, taking account of the squad you have available.

A plan you can adapt

Work through what you might change when you’re a goal down, facing a low block or playing on a poor pitch.

A reference you can keep using

Bring your decisions together in two one-page templates: a written summary and a pitch version for mapping your shape and movements.

What coaches say about the Game Model Builder

Even now at 78 and since a very early age I have had Autism. The Game Model Builder has been the best help to me more than virtually anything else, and I don’t say that lightly Lucas.

Gerald Churchyard Coach

I wasn’t expecting it to challenge so deep, which made me feel I have to up my game here and makes me excited to see what I can go out and deliver.

Lee Elwood Coach

It’s so insightful actually putting it on paper.

Richard Harrison U18 Coach

This workbook is an eye opener.

Olaf Wagt Coach

A few questions before you buy

What am I buying?

A PDF workbook with structured prompts, principle banks, team examples and two one-page templates to help you build and summarise your game model.

Do I need to know exactly how I want my team to play?

You can start with the ideas you already have. The prompts help you work through the detail and identify decisions you still need to make.

Does it give me a ready-made playing style?

You choose the approach. The workbook helps you build it around your beliefs, your players and the situations your team will face.

Is this a subscription?

No. The Game Model Builder is a one-off purchase of £27.

Get the Game Model Builder · £27

One-off purchase. No subscription.