TouchlineNotes

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Football tactics board

Pick a formation, drag the players, draw passes, runs and zones, then share the board as a link or download it as an image. Free, no sign-up.

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How to use it

Choose a formation for your team and, if you want, for the opponent. Drag any player or the ball to a new position. Tap a player to change the shirt number or add a name.

Switch to Pass, Run or Zone and drag on the pitch to draw: a solid arrow for a pass, a dashed arrow for a run without the ball, a shaded rectangle for a zone. Erase removes one drawing at a time, Undo steps back.

The whole board is stored in the page address. Copy link gives you a URL that reopens exactly this board; nothing is uploaded or saved on our side.

Formations on the board

Ten starting shapes are built in: 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1, 4-4-2, the 4-4-2 diamond, 4-1-4-1, 3-5-2, 3-4-3, 3-4-2-1, 5-3-2 and 5-4-1. They are starting positions, not rules: a formation describes where players stand when nothing is happening, and the interesting part is how the shape changes with and without the ball.

Need it on paper? Printable football pitch and formation templates

What a board is good for

A static board cannot show timing, and most of football is timing. Use it for what it does well: showing a shape, a passing option, an overload on one side, the zone a team wants to attack or protect. For the ideas behind those shapes, read the definitions below.

Read the definitions

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