10 WORLD CLASS

PASSING
PRACTICES
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improve key areas of their technical abilities.

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Practices
Top 10 Passing Practices for You: A Comprehensive
Guide

In the following chapters, we offer our Top 10

Passing Practices to help improve your coaching.
Each practice includes a detailed description and a
downloadable PDF to take with you to the training
pitch.

Additionally, we've included videos of the practice

being delivered by the Pro Team and an animation
to ensure that you don't miss a single detail.
Guidelines for practices
A lot of the practice’s we recommend
We don't specify exact
3 sets of:
equipment to use - You will
Play 3 mins
use the equipment that is
Rest 1 min
available to you
But you can set your own times with
your team

Grid sizes will depend on the age and

ability level you are working with.

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Practices
Chapter 1 - Open body Shape
Practice 1 - FC Barcelona - Passing Races

Practice 2 - England Women Team - Open Body when Receiving

Chapter 2 - Third Man Runs

Practice 3 - FC Bayern Munich - Third Man Runs Passing

Practice 4 - Ajax - Third Man Run Passing

Practice 5 - Atletico Madrid - Third Overlapping Runs

Practices
Chapter 3 - Bounce Pass
Practice 6 - AS Roma - Bounce & Spin

Practice 7 - Chelsea FC - Bounce Pass

Practice 8 - FC Barcelona Women - Up, Back & Through

Chapter 4 - High Intensity

Practice 9 - Real Sociedad - Passing Patterns

Practice 10 - Spain FA Women’s Team - Dribbling & Passing

Chapter one
Open Body Shape
Practice 1 - FC Barcelona - Passing Races

Practice 2 - England Women Team - Open

Body when Receiving

“If you play on possession,

you don’t have to defend,
because there is
only one ball ” Johan Cruyff
FC Barcelona - Passing Races

Description:
Excellent practice for working on different types
of passing.

Passing on the move

Bounce pass
Short & Longer distances

Bonus:
This practice is a fun way to get your players
competing against eachother in groups. While
developing dribbling, bounce passing, open body
shape when receiving.

PDF
FC Barcelona - Passing Races
England Women's Team
Open Body Shape
Description:
Players work in groups of 4 with 2 players inside
working from end to end. Excellent practice for
improving your players

Scanning
Open Body when receiving
Different receiving skills
Short Passing
Finishing

Bonus:
Like the last practice can be turned into a race
between inside players

PDF
England Women's Team
Open Body Shape
Chapter two
Third Man Runs

Practice 3 - FC Bayern Munich - 3rd Man Runs Passing

Practice 4 - Ajax - 3rd Man Run Passing

Practice 5 - Atletico Madrid - 3rd Overlapping Runs

“The third man run

is impossible to defend
against ” Xavi Hernandez
FC Bayern Munich
Third Man Runs
Description:
Working on third man runs is a crucial part of
your players and teams development. When
your players understand and have practiced
their movement off the ball, your team will be
become more effective in possession.

Progression
Add in a 1v1 area for the players after they make
the pass to the end zone. Have them make the
pass and run into a 8x16m grind with a small goal
at each end and receive a pass and attack a resting
defender. The rotation then is the defender goes
back into the passing and the attacker becomes
the resting defernder.

PDF
FC Bayern Munich
Third Man Runs
 Ajax
Third Man Run Pattern

Description:
Very interesting practice here from Ajax. Ball is
played into first player, who takes a touch forward
and then performs a change of direction skill
move. Next is a combination play between three
players before the final pass to the third man
runner

Progression
Easy progression here can be to add in a small goal
for the third man runner to pass into goal or put a
keeper in a main goal for a shot.

You can also add 1v1s/2v1 etc

PDF
 Ajax
third Man Run Pattern
 Atletico Madrid
third Man overlapping Runs

Description:
Have some players start at each end with some
inside positioned for combination play and third
man run. Players move onto the next station after
they pass the ball.

Progression
Add in a second ball once the players have the
correct tempo.

PDF
 Atletico Madrid
Third Man overlapping Runs
Chapter three
bounce passes

Practice 6 - AS Roma - Bounce & Spin

Practice 7 - Chelsea FC - Bounce Pass

Practice 8 - FC Barcelona Women - Up, Back & Through

“We do not pass to move

the ball, we pass to move
the opposition ” Pep Guardiola
As roma - bounce & spin

Description:
Really nice practice to implement with your
players and a very effective practice to get the
intensity into your session. Key improvements for
your players

Weight of bounce pass

Quick movement after pass

Progression
After players runs through cones add a 1v1

PDF
As roma - bounce & spin
chelsea fc - bounce passing

Description:
Keep the grid size small to allow the tempo to be
quick with short sharp passing. Switch the
direction the players play to maximise
development with both feet.

Bonus:
Excellent Match Day Warm Up passing practice

PDF
Chelsea fc - bounce passing
fc barcelona womens team
up,back & through

Description:
Can be used as a patteren of play, working the ball
from midfield, out wide and back inside with a
combination between a 9 and 10.

Players starting the move with bounce passes,

pass to each other until the rest of the players are
in position and ready to play.

Progression
You can easily take the small goal out and replace
it with a main goal plus keeper or into an attacking
overload game.

PDF
fc barcelona womens team
up,back & through
Chapter four
High intensity practices

Practice 9 - Real Sociedad - Passing Patterns

Practice 10 - Spain FA Women’s Team - Dribbling & Passing

“Intensity is our identity”

Pep Lijnders
 real sociedad
High Intensity Passing Practice
Description:
Really enjoyable practice for the players
as there is a variety of passes to make.

Double movements are crucial to

practice in this one. The timing of the
movement is the key

Progression
Add in a second ball

PDF
 real sociedad
Passing Patterns
Spain fa women's team
High Intensity Passing

Description:
First player runs with the ball as fast
as they can while maintaining good
control of the ball. Good quality
pass to the end player. End player
makes a bounce pass to Player 3,
who dribbles through the poles and
passes to end player.
Bonus
Get into some detail with Player 3 when
they are receiving to dribble. Work on
different moves to receive the ball

On the move
PDF
Stop start move

The stop start move is excellent for

slowing down the defender as they press
Spain fa women's team
High Intensity Passing
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