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Pitch Side Academy
Learn the workflow one step at a time
12 practical videos, 6 films and 9 quick-hit shorts explain why each action matters. The team-and-squad step has a written guide while its video is unavailable.
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Follow four practical stages with synthetic data, test another team role and finish with a structured two-minute check-in.
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Start with one saved plan
Your First Pitch Side Training Plan
After creating your team, check a ready-made plan, save it and find it again. These current screens use fictional local records. Adapt activities for your players and space; email confirmation is still needed before invitations.
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Next: Open Sessions to find your plan; add your squad when ready
Read the current steps
- Create your team, then choose Use a ready-made session on the dashboard.
- Check the title, activities and timings. Adapt the plan for your players and space.
- Choose Save, then open Sessions to find your saved plan again.
- Add your squad later. Confirm your email before sharing invitations.
- Need help with setup or existing records? Use Help; we reply by email within two working days. Do not email passwords or children's records.
Written guide · take it at your own pace
Set up your team and squad
The video for this step is temporarily unavailable. You can still complete it using these simple steps, or ask us for help by email.
- Open your team. If you have not made one yet, create it first.
- Open Squad and add only the player details you need. You can practise with fictional names.
- Invite coaches, parents and players only when you are ready, choosing the right role for each person.
- Return to the dashboard and plan your first training session. You can finish setup later.
Please do not email passwords or children's records. Tell us what you need help moving, and we will agree a safe way first.
Fast, focused, vertical
Nine Pitch Side shorts
Attention-grabbing football problems, resolved in 25 seconds or less. Watch one, then jump into the lesson behind it.
Continue the academy
11 more video lessons, one connected system
First look
Pitch Side in 2 Minutes
See how the dashboard, training planner, animated drills, tactics and messages fit into one calm weekly workflow.
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Next: Set up your team and squad
Read the current steps
- Open Dashboard to see the week ahead.
- Use Quick actions for sessions, formations and match day.
- Open Academy whenever you need a short guide.
Session planning
Plan a Training Session
Turn one coaching objective into a realistic sequence of warm-ups, drills and games with clear timings.
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Next: Make your tactical idea visible
Read the current steps
- Open Sessions and choose New training session.
- Add at least one drill or play from the library.
- Check the activity order and timings, then choose Save.
- The saved plan is your first useful coaching outcome.
Tactics
Build Formations and Animate Plays
Create a team shape, assign the squad and explain movement with phases, auto-follow and manual zoom.
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Next: Bring the team into one clear conversation
Read the current steps
- Open Formations and choose New formation.
- Place players in the team shape.
- Save, then use Plays when you need to explain movement in phases.
Collaboration
Messages, Invites and Safeguarding
Choose the right conversation type, keep updates actionable and understand the safeguarding boundary.
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Next: Connect every task into matchweek
Read the current steps
- Open Messages and choose the right team channel.
- Keep the update clear and limited to the people who need it.
- Use your club safeguarding process for concerns or sensitive records.
End to end
Run a Complete Matchweek
Follow one connected workflow from the weekly objective and session plan through match day and player review.
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Next: Organise availability and match-day details
Read the current steps
- Set the weekly coaching objective.
- Save the training session and collect availability.
- Prepare match day, then record only useful development evidence.
Saturday setup
Availability, Match Day and Carpool
Collect availability, prepare the lineup and organise practical match-day details without chasing separate group chats.
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Next: Turn weekly evidence into useful player support
Read the current steps
- Open Match day and add the fixture details.
- Ask members for availability.
- Build the lineup from current responses and publish one clear update.
Player journeys
Track Player Development
Use development paths, milestones and constructive observations to support progress without reducing a player to a score.
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Next: Connect those observations to the season plan
Read the current steps
- Open a player from Squad.
- Choose the relevant development path or milestone.
- Add a specific, constructive observation and review it later.
Plan the season
Season Plans and Analytics
Use a season framework and simple trends to keep weekly sessions connected without losing the flexibility grassroots teams need.
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Next: Choose and adapt the right drill
Read the current steps
- Open Season plans and choose a suitable framework.
- Connect the next session to the current priority.
- Use Analytics as a prompt for review, not as a verdict on a player.
Coach the detail
Find, Understand and Adapt Drills
Move from a coaching objective to a drill you understand, can explain and can adapt for the players who arrive.
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Next: Explain one tactical idea with readable phases
Read the current steps
- Search the Drill library for the coaching objective.
- Read the setup, coaching points and progression.
- Adapt the space, numbers or challenge for the players attending.
Make movement clear
Explain Plays Clearly
Use short phases, purposeful annotations and controlled camera movement to make a tactical idea easier to understand.
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Next: Review roles, invitations and team access
Read the current steps
- Open Plays and place the starting shape.
- Add one movement or decision per phase.
- Preview the sequence and simplify anything that is hard to follow.
Right access, right role
Invites, Roles and Team Access
Invite coaches, parents and players deliberately, review membership and keep access aligned with real responsibilities.
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Next: Open the dashboard and run your next real team job
Read the current steps
- Open Settings, then Members.
- Share the team invite code with the intended person.
- Review the requested role and approve only the access they need.
See the bigger picture
Six short Pitch Side films
The match-day film
Saturday, Sorted
Meet the one-team workspace that keeps coaching, match-day organisation and communication connected.
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Next: See how Pitch Side makes football ideas visible
The visual coaching film
Make the Football Visible
Show players the shape, movement and coaching purpose behind your football ideas.
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Next: See one role-aware plan for the whole team
The team workspace film
One Team. One Plan.
Give coaches, parents and players one role-appropriate place for the week ahead.
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Next: Turn one coaching idea into a touchline-ready plan
The coaching workflow film
From Idea to Touchline
See one coaching objective become a visual drill, a clear tactical explanation and a realistic session.
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Next: Bring the full football week into one place
The weekly workflow film
Less Chasing. More Football.
Keep training, match day and team communication connected instead of rebuilding the week across group chats.
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Next: Explore the complete grassroots team workspace
The product story
The Grassroots Team Workspace
Meet the connected workspace for coaching, tactics, match day, communication and player development.
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Next: Start the academy with the two-minute first look
Get setup help by email
Tell us how your team works. We can help move an appropriate player list or existing coaching records, adjust the steps to match your workflow, answer questions and collect feature requests. A meeting is not required.
Do not attach medical or safeguarding records, passwords, payment details or player documents to ordinary email. Pitch Side does not accept uploads through this help page. If data is genuinely needed, support will first arrange an authenticated private route with file limits, checks and a deletion date.