How to Evaluate Training Sessions & Matches as a Football Coach

Effective coaching is not just about what you deliver on the pitch. It is about how well you understand what actually happened, why it happened, and what to do next.

The Training Session & Match Evaluation Pack has been created for coaches who want to move beyond instinctive reflection and develop a clear, structured, and professional approach to evaluating performance. It provides a complete methodology for analysing training sessions and matches at both individual and team level, grounded in behaviour, learning, and long term development rather than short term outcomes.

At the heart of the pack is the Coach Notes Framework to Evaluation, a systematic approach inspired by professional football environments, performance analysis, coaching pedagogy, and learning theory. The framework shows coaches not just what to evaluate and why, but how to do it consistently and accurately in real coaching environments.

This pack is deliberately educational in tone. It is designed to be studied, applied, and returned to over time. It does not offer shortcuts, drills, or quick fixes. Instead, it equips coaches with a way of thinking that improves observation, interpretation, feedback, and planning across training and matches.

What the Pack Covers

• Why evaluation is essential for effective coaching and player development
• Key principles and methodologies for fair, objective evaluation
• How to observe performance without bias or emotional distortion
• Evaluating individual and team performance in training and matches
• Psychological and behavioural evaluation alongside technical and tactical analysis
• Providing individualised and collective feedback that supports learning
• Linking evaluation directly to future session and match planning
• Creating an evaluation culture within teams and clubs
• The Coach Notes Evaluation Framework

The pack introduces a complete evaluation system built around a clear cycle:

Intent → Design → Observation → Evidence → Interpretation → Feedback → Application → Review

This cycle is used consistently throughout the book and embedded into all practical tools, ensuring clarity and coherence across every aspect of evaluation.

Practical Evaluation Templates Included

The pack includes four framework aligned evaluation templates:

• Training Evaluation Template – Individual Player
• Training Evaluation Template – Team
• Match Evaluation Template – Individual Player
• Match Evaluation Template – Team

These templates are not checklists. They are structured thinking tools designed to guide reflection, reduce bias, and support better coaching decisions over time.

Who This Is For

This pack is suitable for:

• Grassroots coaches seeking more structure and clarity
• Academy coaches working in development focused environments
• Coaches preparing for qualifications or CPD
• Coaches who want to think and work more like professionals

Pages: 78

Release Date: 26/12/25

Format: PDF