Soccerexercises for technique passing

  • Pawns as on picture
  • Chase the ball
  • 2 variants
    • With handball after running in
    • With turning and passing
  • Note two roles for 1 player: handball and passer and then playable again for attack.


drawing Position pass exercise with rounding 2 variants
  • Put pawns as given
  • Each pawn 1 player
  • Start in the corner and pass as given
  • Player runs ball behind
  • Left bottom corner dribbles back to start (last player in the game)


drawing Pass exercise in two squares
  • Player in red plays a long ball to the goalkeeper
  • Goalkeeper rebounds
  • Red comes running in and plays to blue
  • Blue takes the pass, turns and sends white deep
  • White crosses while blue defends on red

  • Red passes to Blue
  • Blue to White and
  • White to Red
drawing Long ball - Passing - Finishing
  • The exercise was mainly done to learn to move on after a pass.
  • So pass and walk on.
  • This in combination with crosses and finishing makes it a nice exercise for the boys (7-8 years) and useful as a match situation (also without resistance).
    • 1 player red passes to blue player and runs towards the corner.
    • 2 Player blue rebounds in the depth towards the corner.
    • 3 Player red passes to incoming player blue.
    • Player blue finishes off the ball.

Points of attention

  • Good pass in.
  • Get in the ball before the handover.
  • Handover in the deep.
  • Do not run in too early when finishing.
drawing Handball --> send deep --> cross --> finish
  • Place cones as shown.
  • Player 1 gives a long pass.
  • Player 2 takes the pass, dribbles around cones and shoots the ball over a small goal into the back of the goal.
  • Variant :
    • Player 2 dribbles around pawns and then rebounds with player 1 to shoot over goal.
drawing Dribble exercise with long pass and shot over goal
  • 2 players at 7m from each other.
  • One player works and goes left and right to get the ball and pass.
  • After the pass walk backwards to the cone and then forward to the other side.
  • Change after 3 minutes.
  • Variation;
    • Play in 1 go, increase distance, how many times in 2 minutes?
drawing Targeted pass
  • Passingdrill: get into the ball, play and move on

Passing drill: small group maximum of two touches
Moving between the lines and always thinking ahead
  • Short direct passing
  • Correctly turned in
Exercise passing the ball on 9/10
  • Correct passing and short passing
  • Always keep eye contact