veldplanTACTICS BOARD
Your tactical workspace
PassPlay & setupBall

Swipe toward a teammate. The board pauses at arrival.

Drag a player to move themSwipe the ball, or tap ball then teammate ↗

About Veldplan

A coaching aid

This board helps you explore spacing and structure. Automatic positioning is a close approximation based on the ball, players and selected settings—not a simulation of real player decisions. Use it as a starting point, then adjust it with your coaching judgement.

Using the board

  1. Build a situation. Choose formations, or use Free design to line players up on the sidelines and drag them into place. Drag any player directly.
  2. Place the ball. Turn on Free ball and drag it. Place it on a player and turn Free ball off to attach it. Attacker swaps the team in possession.
  3. Explore a pass. Tap the ball then a teammate, or swipe the ball toward them. Straight passes can be intercepted along the route; lofted passes are contested near arrival. The board pauses when the ball arrives.
  4. Link passes. Select Multi-pass, tap receivers in order, then Play. Tap the last receiver again to remove that selection. Multi-pass switches off when finished.
  5. Get positioning help. Set positions arranges both teams around the ball. Zonal protects areas; man-marking follows assigned opponents. Lock positions keeps other players still while you drag. Double-click a player to select one or more players and set their speed above the field. Free design keeps manual placements until you explicitly request a setup.
  6. Study space. Crowding and lanes highlights nearby pressure and potential passing routes. Demonstrate crowding walks through an example; Return to board restores your setup.
  7. Set up your teams. Open Coach’s office to assign names, shirt numbers and speed to each formation position, choose team colors, and save teams. Its Playbook section records and manages plays. Apply team edits before switching sides or closing the office.
  8. Adjust and compare. Drag players to refine any suggestion. Use Undo and Redo, Replay the last pass, or slow playback. Reset players keeps settings. Save board before refreshing; Open restores a saved board.

On a phone

Tools opens settings and file actions. Use + and − to zoom. Turn on Pan to drag the view without moving players; turn it off to edit. Fit shows the whole field again. Swipe the bottom toolbar sideways for more actions. In the play editor, More expands the controls.

Build a play

Arrows show saved movement order: solid lines are player runs, dashed yellow lines are passes. Curved passes are lofted; straight passes stay on the ground. Choose Pass type for each step. Matching numbers happen in the same step. Use Arrows to hide or show them while editing.

New play and Edit open a floating toolbar on the field. Choose a step to show it, move players, then use Update step or Next step. Your tweaks are kept when you change steps, preview with Play, or Save play. After playback, Return to board brings you back to editing. Done returns to the playbook; Save play stores your work in this browser.

  1. Set up the starting positions on the field. Open Coach’s office → Playbook → New play. Give the play a name.
  2. Choose Build next step. It starts from the last step of your play. Drag any players to their next positions; other players stay still.
  3. Choose Ball ends with to select the receiver. Keep the same player for a run without a pass. Choose Free ball to place the ball anywhere.
  4. Press Add step once. All these movements become one step and play together. Cancel discards this step and restores your board.
  5. For a give-and-go: first pass to a teammate while moving the passer forward, then add a second step with the return pass. Use a separate step whenever one action must happen before another.
  6. Repeat Build next step, then Play to watch and Save play to keep it. Edit lets you rename, reorder or update existing steps. Nothing is saved permanently until you choose Save play.

Each step contains at most one pass. Runs and that pass happen together. Place defenders too if you want them to move; saved plays show your planned movement, without recalculating marking, interceptions or offside.

Your saved data

Teams and plays stay in this browser. Anyone using the same browser profile can access them. Exported files are not encrypted. Export a backup before switching devices or website addresses.