Soccer drills for 6 players
31 free, with video

One attacking line and one defending line, each starting between two small goals.

Two fields side by side, each split into two grids with a goal at the end.

Seven or eight three-yard gates around the island.

3v3 or 4v4 on a field with an end zone at each end.

Two teams of three with two balls in play and small gates around the area. Score by dribbling through any gate past a defender.

Everyone dribbles on the island; on KNOCKOUT, protect your own ball while trying to kick everyone else’s off.

Two small 1v1 fields side by side with pug or cone goals, one line attacking and one defending on each, with the coach standing between them.

Turtle, dog, cheetah. Players dribble around while you call out speeds, switching often.

Everyone dribbles. Call a speed, then a body part, and players stop the ball with it: foot, knee, elbow, head.

Cones in two colors scattered around the grid.

The coach is the Cone Monster and carries a cone.

Players dribble at you, drag the ball back with the sole just before they reach you, shout “See ya later, Coach!” and speed away into space.

The coach starts as the shark in the middle.

Everyone dribbles inside the island while the sharks wait in the water outside the cones to steal any ball that floats away.

Players dribble anywhere in the grid and freeze with a foot on the ball when you shout.

Pairs face each other across a line neither can cross, a cone at each end.

Half a field with a goal. Keeper, two backs and a center mid build against two pressers, with three cone gates on the halfway line.

4v1 in a 10x10 with a helper walking the outside holding up a colored cone. The receiver has to call the color before the first touch.

4v2 in a 12x12 where the defenders try to keep the ball when they win it, and the four have five seconds, counted out loud, to win it back.

4v2 in a 10x10 with two mini goals fifteen yards away.

A server twelve yards from a receiver with a shadow defender behind, either tight or loose.

Threes in a line, ten yards apart.

A 4v1 rondo where the receiver has to call a number shown by a helper before the first touch.

Four attackers on the sides of a 10x10, two defenders inside working as a pair.

Keeper, two backs and a center mid in a diamond against two pressers, with three gates across the far line.

Four attackers around a 12x12 with two defenders standing as a gate in the middle, three yards apart.

A long, narrow rondo. Two attackers on each short end of a 16x8, two defenders inside.

A 4v2 rondo with one extra rule: when the defenders win it, they try to keep it in the square and the four have five seconds, counted out loud, to win it back.

3v3 on a 20x15 with a mini goal at each end.

Two attackers against one defender in a 15x10 channel, ten seconds to dribble over the end line.

A passer and a runner on a 20x15 with a mini goal.