Soccer fun games

Basic Ball Skills

 Soccer dribbling up and down the line
 Dribbling around cones in zig zag
 Dribbling with three point turns at particular cones
 Shooting at goal
 Kick passing in pairs including trapping
 Individual kicks to see how many times can kick up in air without it landing on the
ground

Tunnel of Doom
 Set up some cones to make a long tunnel for kids to dribble down
 Put in some defence players along the tunnel
 Aim is to get through the tunnel
 For less skilled kids, make tunnel wider
 Can be done basketball dribbling or soccer dribbling
 Tunnel can be made wider and pairs can try to get through utilising passing as well as
dribbling

Hungry Birds
 Have kids in four teams with each team by a hoop (hoops in square formation)
 Put about 20-30 balls in the middle
 On GO all the children run in and get one ball at a time and put into their hoop (can do
all, or can do one child a time from each team)
 Children can steal from other team’s hoops
 Beanbags or other objects could be used

Soccer Teeball
 Set up teeball bases
 Batters kick out a soccer ball, then run around bases like teeball
 Variations:
o Kids run the whole way round OR stop at each base like real teeball game
o Kids kick more than one ball out
o Kids dribble a soccer ball around the diamond as they are running the bases

Down the Line Relay

 Teams of five or six
 A ball starts at the front of a line (with kids spaced apart enough to be able to do
soccer passes)
 The ball is kicked down the line to the last person in the line
 The last person dribbles the ball back to the front of the line and continues on
 Cones could be used to mark where kids stand and when the last runs to the front, the
others move back a cone
 Can be done kicking/bouncing/hand balling/passing/rolling
Shooting Game
 Players stand in a line behind a shooting mark
 The first player shoots, then gets their own rebound and passes to the next player
 The first player goes to the end of the line
 This continues with the teams shooting for a set time to score as many goals as they
can

Shooting Game
 Players stand in a line behind a shooting mark
 The first player kicks, aiming to get a goal
 Have a few players in the square to retrieve the ball
 The ball goes to the next player, with the first one going to the end of the line
 This continues with the teams shooting for a set time to score as many goals as they
can
 Players could have three balls, so they get three shots at goals each

Weaving Relay
 Set up teams in lines with 5 cones in front of each line
 The cones are lined up ready for kids to weave in and out of with their balls
 First student dribbles their ball, weaving in and out of the cones then dribbles or kicks
the ball back
 This can be done bouncing a ball or rolling a ball or even just carrying the ball

Up and Down the Court

 Two people kick pass the ball all the way up the court and back again and then hand
on to the next two people (there can be two groups going at a time)
 This can be done using bounce passes, chest passes, kicking, handballing or hockey
style
 This can be done with three people and also can be turned into a three or five man
weave

Half Field Game or 5 v 5 etc

 Play modified games

Indoor Soccer
 Play indoor soccer
 Ball can hit the sides and stay in play

End Zone
 Set up playing area with two cones marking a goal area at each end
 Each player has someone standing in their own goal area as their goal person (to get a
goal, the team must get the ball to their own goal person)
 5 kicks must be made by each team before a goal can be shot
 May need to move hoop further away from playing area to avoid players getting to
close to the goal person
 Can do with kicking, passing, handballing, different sized balls, beanbags or frisbees